When my daughter turned three, we had "the talk." No, not about boys. About something else that was going to have a major impact on her life in years to come: Her first gun. I asked what she wanted and her marching orders could not have been clearer. "Purple," she said. I agonized for a while (three years, in fact) over what to build her before Tom Hines, who owns Tactical Solutions, and Pat Mundy at Leupold & Stevens came to my rescue. Tom makes exceedingly slick firearms, specializing in tricked-out Rugers, while Pat helps promote Leupold's custom shop, which can do some amazing things to personalize optics (including color anodizing). Together they created this pimped-out (and very accurate) purple squirrel slayer from an ordinary Ruger 10/22. Assuming I've got enough ammo, I might even let my daughter shoot it.