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Officials are looking to make Beaverton the first Oregon city to ban replica guns in public areas. Beaverton police Chief David Bishop asked the city attorney's office to draft an ordinance that would ban airsoft guns, which resemble firearms but generally use compressed air to shoot plastic pellets. Most have a brightly colored plastic barrel tip to distinguish them from real weapons, though some users paint the tip to make it more closely resemble a real gun. |
| Comment by:
mikestraw1@juno.com
(11/20/2006)
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Notice the cunning slant pinkly coloring the otherwise-unremarkable story: "airsoft guns, which RESEMBLE firearms but GENERALLY use compressed air to shoot plastic pellets. MOST have a brightly colored plastic barrel tip to distinguish them from real weapons, though SOME users paint the tip to make it more closely resemble a real gun."
In fact, all Airsoft guns operate either by springs, electricity, or compressed gas, and appear physically IDENTICAL to "real guns," hence the Imperial Mandate to have a brightly colored plastic barrel tip, even though SOME mental incompetents paint the tip to induce public execution at the nervous trigger-fingers of terrified jackbooted thugs.
Hey, no "media bias" here...
Molon Labe!
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| Comment by:
doug.huffman@dcwis.com
(11/21/2006)
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Wisconsin is going to the heart of the problem. A bill has been prefiled by a D-amn-ocrat, entitled LEO Safety or some such, justifying lethal response to an officer's fears of a toy gun, a tool or a finger. If an officer feels threatened, he can shoot someone waving his middle-finger. Truly a First Class citizen protection act.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people should be armed where they will, with wits and guns. KMA NRA |
| Comment by:
Agent 99
(11/21/2006)
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| What about painting an orange tip on a real gun? |
| Comment by:
stripeseven@hotmail.com
(11/21/2006)
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| Rules of engagement: Don't fire unless fired upon. No cop has ever died from a toy gun. The toys are toys, not firearms. Sounds like city hall there does'nt want to deal with a lawsuit when one of their blue puppets makes the mistake and kills someone with a toy. |
| Comment by:
Agent 99
(11/21/2006)
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For the sake of argument just how do you tell a real gun from a fake? are you going to bet YOUR life on your decision
Have you seen some of those 8mm blank Replicas?
They fire blanks and operate the same as the real thing. The slide on the semi's actually function and the barrel has an opening commensurate with the caliber. I know the experts here will say that they can tell a real gun from a fake in an instant and they had better be able to do that for real if and when they are placed in a confrontational situation.
I don't think a ban is a good idea either because I feel that if a person is dumb enough to try to use a fake sooner or later they will meet someone with a real gun and the problem will be settled Darwinian style.
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