The only thing you need your orange tip for is transporting or shipping it. Otherwise the orange tip isnt needed. I always paint mine and I have a custom orange barrel condom for when I drive to a game. But I also know that as long as the rifle is inside a gun case cops dont care. Its MOSTLY just for sales/shipping. I used to be in airsoft sales and that how the lawyer explained it to me. I have had a hundred guns and maybe a quarter of em had orange tips,lol.. I have had cops pull me over and see them and not bother me at all cause they were in cases. But I am also well over age..