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3. Personally, I don't have a problem with minors having airsoft guns. Because as long
as they have irresponsible parents, minors will still be just as dangerous. Requiring
parents to buy them for their kids will do very little to protect us. If you want a law
that works then let's push for laws that state the following:
A. It is illegal to point, fire, or threaten harm with an airsoft gun inside any city
limits without written approval from local law-enforcement.
B. Any airsoft gun used in the commission of a crime will be treated as a real firearm.
Law-enforcement officers will respond to an airsoft gun as a real firearm.
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Good points, and I agree, except for your fisrt #3 point (you have #3 down twice).
Just because we as a group (or an individual) think it's okay and does no harm for
minors to be involved in airsoft, doesn't mean that it's right. If airsoft is not
LEGAL to buy unless you're at least 18 years old (adult), then no matter how many of us
think it's "okay" for a minor to be involved in the adult sport of airsoft, it doesn't
make it right. How can minors play airsoft without buying airsoft guns? It's kind of
a catch-22. My PERSONAL belief is that a minor SHOULD be allowed to play/participate
in airsoft games/events ONLY when his or her parent is right there alongside them
PLAYING. I do NOT think it's okay for a minor to buy an AEG, or for a parent/adult to buy an AEG FOR the minor's personal unsupervised use. A convenient view since it also happens to be the law. [
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BTW, your points A (is it me, or is "A" worded a little strangely?) and B are already
laws AFAIK.
Point A: Isn't it already illegal to threaten or harm someone with anything (whether
it be a BB gun, a bat or an airsoft pistol, unless it's in self-defense) regardless of
it being in city limits or outside city limits? Not sure why "written approval from
local Law-enforcement" would be granted to "point, fire, or threaten harm with an
airsoft gun inside any city limits".
Point B: A replica/toy firearm used in the commission of a crime is actually treated
as if it were a real firearm in the prosecution of that crime.
This is some good discussion. Keep it going, and keep it civil. [
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