Airsoft update

[graafen]

Since the Violent Crimes Reduction bill threatens to slowly kill the sport of Airsoft I've decided to start saving for the worst. If it does go through I want to be able to at least buy two more rifles and a pistol before the ban on the sale/importation/manufacture of replica firearms takes effect.

I aim to purchase two more G36c's and a H&K SOCOM/USP, with one G36c being converted into a G36 LMG and the other being converted into an SL9.

I start saving at the end of this month. Here's hoping I don't have to rush buy all the rifles. :/

Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

You could use the same reasoning to ban water-guns, though - and all of them, for that matter. If somebody draws what looks like a gun while being confronted by the police, the policeman won't be able to take a closer look to determine if it's real or not - they will have to *assume* it is, even if it would otherwise, under other circumstances, be obvious that the gun in question is a toy [1]. So you'd really have to ban *everything* that looks like a gun - including, for example, bright orange plastic toys and other such things.

1. This is sometimes done on purpose - a so-called suicide by cop.

[graafen]

That reminds me of the time a cop shot someone who he thought had a shotgun in his jacket. Turned out it was a chair leg.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

*noddles* Well, I sure hope he (the cop, that is) didn't get away with that. o.o