Well... trying to find the slimmest glimmer of a bright point in that story... at least it wasn't a kid or teenager, so that the proponents of "Keep them out of kids hands!" would - in an ideal universe - take a gutshot. Of course, while it helps the "Keep them out of stupid hands!" bandwagon has another round in its chamber, all that is likely to come out of it in the end is a point for the "OMG GUNz0r! BAN!" camp...
/Did that make any sense to anyone?
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This is why the less we see, the better we are. Which is why we stress responsible ownership here. Don't be dumb, and you won't be in the paper along side these "wonderful" specimens of human genes.
Sadly, the nature of our hobby doesn't exactly lend itself to headlines like, "The National Airsoft Society of America sponsored the Cure Cancer Foundation this weekend with guest speakers, yada yada yada".
On that note, however, one thing that I noticed that other groups (who have shady connotations) have done has been to start charity's or sponsor specific charity's for the postitive PR and of course, to help a good cause. If C3 were to ever get that large (it's not just a dream!!!), then it would be nice to head down that path.
But until then, let's keep our nose's clean, and bide our time until society is ready to accept the love that can be shared between a man and his plastic rifle...
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He's a cat *Meow!* flushing a toilet...
But until then, let's keep our nose's clean, and bide our time until society is ready to accept the love that can be shared between a man and his plastic rifle...
Oh good, I don't feel so creepy now for petting each G36 tenderly before going to bed...
Man, I miss the days of when I was a kid, where you could go to the local five-and-dime and buy a very real looking snub-nosed revolver toy gun that used those red-round 6 shot caps. It made a nice loud bang, had smoke, the works. I also had a very impressive collection of electric water guns that looked exactly like a real MAC10, M16, Uzi, etc... and no one thought anything of it as me and my friends ran around our neighborhood firing these things at each other.
*sigh* the world sure has changed. But still, an adult, even a drunk one, should know better.
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*sigh* the world sure has changed. But still, an adult, even a drunk one, should know better.
Its been my experience that stupidity, once learned is something that can almost never be forgotten. And I don't mean "2+2=22" stupid, but rather socially stupid, ala Exhibit A.
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Oh good, I don't feel so creepy now for petting each G36 tenderly before going to bed...
Its only creepy 'cause its a G36
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"Call me a killjoy, but because this sport is not to my tastes, I don't think anyone else should be allowed to enjoy it either" - Marge Simpson
Very easily... you do realize that just because something is powered by electricity doesn't mean that that electricity comes in contact with anything but the motor.
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I had a pump shotgun with a water magazine, very fun
I also had a blue plastic colt 1911 water pistol that functioned like a springer
All this of course came before super soakers took over the water pistol scene.
My favorite 5 and dime purchase was a 2 foot long pump shotgun that fire plastic bbs, much like an airsoft gun. Not even hard enough to dent a coke can, at least until we figured out that frozen peas were much heavier and biodegradable too.
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I do not remember these electric water guns. I obviously never owned one.
Closest I had were those paint-water guns. Think they were called "Zap-it". They fired colored water that disappeared in about 10 minutes. Worst thing about them was the mags were pretty crappy plastic, so they would spring leaks. I remember my mag being just covered in epoxy, to fix the holes, by my parents attempt to not buy another mag for it.
There were actual cases where kids were being shot by police because of how realistic these guns looked. I don't think anybody ever had that kind problem with the Popeye water pistol.
*sigh* that brought back memories. It was indeed the Enertech series of electric water guns that I had. I think I had them all - the Uzi, M16, weird sort-of AK thing, I even had that water balloon/grenade pump machine.
The epic battles that took place in my neighborhood were legendary. Complete empires rose and fell before power of my Rambo-licensed M60 squirt gun. My squad always made it home for dinner too.
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Im young, but all i got where hand me downs. I had that Uzi water gun, I had that lazer tag game where you had the helmet, I also had the movies of The 3 Ninja turtles. Thats all I ever did. I was devestated when my dad broke my Uzi.
