Airsoft Thread

Not sure if its relavent, but the ATF siezed 30 airsoft guns at Port of Oregon.

The store owner was on the radio and he said the local news had a member of some anti gun group on and they were saying that an airsoft gun can easily be modified to fire real bullets. REALLY!?

http://www.kptv.com/news/22714377/detail.html

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Originally Posted by Freelancer

The guy with the M82 Barrett around my community posted some FPS results on our forum the other day, he teflon taped up the internals and installed a 6.01mm tight-bore. He used Red gas with the maximum FPS setting on the gun and got around 675 FPS with .20g BB's. Obviously he uses .43g BB's when playing otherwise he could cause some SERIOUS damage to gear and people if he wasn't very careful, FPS with .43g is around 460 and since it's a heavier BB it's less effected by the elements.

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He can still cause serious damage to someone with a .43g at the same range as a .20g. The muzzle energy is still the same, it's just that some of it is located in the mass of the BB now instead of its velocity. He better not be shooting at anyone with that under 200 ft, or that's just poor form.

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Originally Posted by paladin

Not sure if its relavent, but the ATF siezed 30 airsoft guns at Port of Oregon.

The store owner was on the radio and he said the local news had a member of some anti gun group on and they were saying that an airsoft gun can easily be modified to fire real bullets. REALLY!?

http://www.kptv.com/news/22714377/detail.html

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Uhhh, plastic and somewhat of a good metal shooting out real bullets? Shouldn't something go wrong after the first few shoots if it IS possible.

I know right? Idiots

Also why are they doing this? It's airsoft guns, damn and to think its real firearms? Really now... and the 2nd amendment supports us to bear arms, it doesn't have a limit to it. Then again the Feds are scared of us overpowering the government >_> it almost near the same in 1977 or 1976 when they destroyed ALL thompson's in gov possession, dumbshits.

Well, it does say in the Constitution that the government (specifically, Congress) has a right to defend itself.

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

Well, it does say in the Constitution that the government (specifically, Congress) has a right to defend itself.

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True but taking airsoft guns (that can't kill you) and destroying 12K of it? Is it that necessary to destroy airsoft guns...

Of course not. I'm just implying that you need to take that into consideration before you start saying that the government is violating rights. I do not condone the anti-airsoft action though (or anti-real gun actions either).

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

Of course not. I'm just implying that you need to take that into consideration before you start saying that the government is violating rights. I do not condone the anti-airsoft action though (or anti-real gun actions either).

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I am not really saying the gov is violating rights, it's just a waste of time. It sucks the guy will lose 12K but yeah. Also I don't care for anti-soft or w/e just as long as I can still buy metal/wood/(or w/e) airsoft guns I am fine.

If you watch the video about this one YouTube the ATF agent demonstrating the gun and telling us how it can be "modified into a machine gun" puts the magazine in backwards at first.