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

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

If the bill requires you to give up your replica arms, is it such a good idea spending money on more?

Or does the bill simply prevent the FUTURE sale of such items? Leaving existing owners free to keep their replicas?

I am not sure what the proposed law will say.

[cloneboy.livejournal.com]

oooh i want one!

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Interesting things. :)

[southpaw1805.livejournal.com]

Have to say that I can see both points of view here. Whilst the proposed ban on realistic imitation firearms proposed in the Bill does mean that the realism is lost from the sport (though there is provision made for exemptions to be made, presumably for registered sites, for example), at the same time, you've got to appreciate the point of view of the Police.

If you were an armed copper and called out because of a suspected armed suspect, who had a realistic looking imitation firearm, would you like to be the one to make the judgement call as to whether to gun him down (not discovering it's an imitation 'til you've done so) or risk being shot yourself? I know I wouldn't...And that is, I suspect, the primary reason behind the proposed ban.

Of course, never having been Airsofting, I'm looking at this from a purely objective point of view, rather than an emotional one, but that's my opinions on the matter...

YMMV. IANAL. E&OE. And other such acronyms.

[murries.livejournal.com]

*has nothing to say on the "ban" that he hasnt ranted about already*

*drools at the SL9*

[pliskin.livejournal.com]

Thats the rifle i wanted.... *cry*