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General Airsoft Discussion / Re: National Public Radio thing on airsoft
« on: August 17, 2008, 09:57:11 PM »
Quote from: "Firebert"
Just a thought for one of you that are sending an email or letter and you may have already done this.  Why not invite them to a skirmish where they can see it first hand.  Perhapses just to ice the cake make it a charity game.
Interesting idea but I doubt we could get them here, and if we did I'd worry about the outcome. This is NPR, not NRA :D

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General Airsoft Discussion / National Public Radio thing on airsoft
« on: August 17, 2008, 07:43:27 AM »
This morning about 0645 I heard a little vignette on airsoft on NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=93456690

The narrative focused on 14 year old boys playing in their back yards in a residential neighborhood, and in particular a young man in Newman, CA that almost got shot by a police officer. I sent an email to Morning Edition as follows...

Your piece on airsoft guns was correct in the sense that airsoft is a fast growing sport in the US. But, by telling the story around a 14 year old boy you missed the mark. Highly organized groups of current and former law enforcement and military as well as other enthusiasts from every state gather for local games as well as a national schedule of events, all managed under the same kind of strict rules found in venues where real weapons are used. These events restrict players to over eighteen years of age, allowing under eighteen only with adult sponsorship and supervision. We discourage the kind of undisciplined and dangerous conduct your program described as we realize it will ultimately cause the kind of reaction you reported from the Newman Police Chief. Another report from NPR on the airsoft community that is tightly self-regulated would be helpful.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / wife
« on: October 29, 2007, 12:00:31 PM »
Quote from: "Ganef"
Quote from: "azsarge"
-Chem/bio overgarments to wear when strolling through an infected area for more ammo or food.  Including...

-NBC-rated promask/CBRN respirator or filtermask with blower.  Sucking air through a filter with your adrenaline rushing really sucks and can lead to hyperventilation.  The blower would come in handy.

Oh s***, gonna need to learn how to make a blower pouch!!  :P

I may have to put together an armor kit to quickly add to one of my vehicles so I can get the heck outta dodge. Because when this thing goes down we need to get as far away from large populations of people as possible. One of the skyislands like Mt. Grahm or Mt. Lemon would do well.

 Or hold up in the commercial district in Tempe and make roof bridges from Granger, ITT/Litton, Smith Enterprises and Armor works.

What do you mean 'so I can get the heck out of dodge'? What about your Missus. Gonna leave her to the zombies?

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General Off-Topic Discussion / movie
« on: July 12, 2007, 09:51:53 AM »
Sounds like a consensus for the positive, though as they say 'everyone's a critic.' Certainly sparked a lively exchange. One might pose the question, "Don't you guys have a life?' :lol:
Will have to go see it when I get back to civilization.

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Local Games Listing/RSVP /
« on: June 03, 2007, 04:26:20 PM »
Quote from: "Airsofter1"
Quote from: "azsarge"
What a cock tease!  I'll be on a OMNI flight from Kuwait on the 9th. :roll:

It's cool, there's always Hard Bean: 17.

Don't worry, because Roberts going to be in town the following weekend I will host another game then also.  But if you can't make that game, expect Hard Bean 17 to be way cool.  We have a ton of way cool stuff planned for that event!  I don't want to give away too much, but we are in the planning stages right now to try and secure a new secret MOUT facility and procure the use of several soviet era aircraft along with a ride for all the players in a submarine for a beach assault scenario!!!!  woot woot

Hmmm....soviet era aircraft. Sounds like a Hind for one, hope you can find a pilot crazy enough to fly it, and a sub, in Arizona? Yeah right ....... Mikey maybe we should talk about your vitamin routine :D

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Local Games Listing/RSVP / greg and woody
« on: June 03, 2007, 04:23:35 PM »
so me and Greg are good to go, cleared it up the line. Why don't we meet at 0600 or 0630 and get an earlier start in the cool morning?

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Local Games Listing/RSVP / response
« on: June 01, 2007, 08:42:28 AM »
Put me and Greg on unassigned for now, subject to our dealing with family politics.

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General Airsoft Discussion / pix
« on: May 29, 2007, 06:41:21 PM »
Good stuff!

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Local Games Listing/RSVP / game
« on: April 22, 2007, 09:00:07 PM »
Was absolutely a great game, but no one took any pictures. A lot of us were looking pretty good out there. Rod where are you, dude?

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General Off-Topic Discussion /
« on: April 17, 2007, 12:12:23 PM »
Quote from: "Farslayer"
Like Doc, I like the cranio-occular shot.  Brainstem double tap....especially since most of you sissies only carry 9mm's. :P

God grant grace to the families of the fallen.  RIP.

Guys, real world police environment.... the reason we're taught to aim for center mass is in the excitment of a real shooting your aim isn't that good no matter how well you do on the range. Thus the concept of shooting at a limb, or the gun hand or a head shot isn't practical. But more than likely that will continue to be a theoretical debate for all of us.
The other insititutional problem is that college administrators don't want their campus police to be real police, even though today on many campuses officers are fully POST quailfied. But the administrators want to use their cops as parking ticket givers with the idea that city/county offcers can be called if something bad happens. Here was an example of how clumsy that is. Response times of agencies already in overload are poor plus they plunge in with a poor tactical brief. Hopefully this tragedy will arm campus police managers to get more resources and interdict the next crazy before he hurts people.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / glock
« on: April 16, 2007, 10:28:06 PM »
Nothing as simple and effective as a Glock inder the driver's seat. Had that all the way to TX and back. Lot of lunatics on those roads

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General Off-Topic Discussion / violence
« on: April 16, 2007, 10:15:13 PM »
Sadly the result of this will be the only 'solution' we know, campus security. Nice college campuses will now have metal detectors at every building entrance and uniformed guards manning screening posts. Students and professors will write scathing articles about freedoms being encroached upon. But what other answer is there? And no college administrator is going to put himself at risk for another incident like this. ASU probably won't be far behind, though given our state's pride in non-invasive government we'll see Calfornia well ahead of us.

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General Airsoft Discussion /
« on: April 16, 2007, 09:34:23 PM »
Quote from: "azsarge"
How the **** are you going to get that minute English automobile of yours out to the fields?

Like the old days you can always ride with me, Anthony.

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General Airsoft Discussion / Funny
« on: April 15, 2007, 08:43:13 AM »
This entire exchange is major entertainment. Lasivian unknowingly pushed a lot of buttons. My compliments to Benn and Christian for your civil thoughts but they were, in my opinion largely undeserved. We play Airsoft because it's about a bunch of males having fun doing male stuff. How that simple point got lost on this guy is a mystery. But his exit is noteable to say the least.

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Informational Links / contributions
« on: April 13, 2007, 10:00:18 PM »
Vince, I'll talk to you first of next week about contributing. There's really something wrong with the system when these soldiers have to pay for their own phone cards to phone home. What am I missing?

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