Canada Threatening to Ban Airsoft

[Shamal]

So what the law is basically saying, is;

Airsoft = bad, 

Re-enactment = fine

History dear boy,history. Reliving the glorious gorefests of yesteryear to a paying public. Lol

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[Dacks_18]

History dear boy,history. Reliving the glorious gorefests of yesteryear to a paying public. Lol

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So.... with that logic, if Airsoft is history in Canada then... can they re-enact airsoft!?

 

[Shamal]

So.... with that logic, if Airsoft is history in Canada then... can they re-enact airsoft!?

Haha. You're messing with my mind now lol?

Regards 

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

Since the Girandoni airifle was in action in 1779, and bested the standard muskets of the time, surely a 9.48g BB at 500fps is acceptable?  You'd scream your hits for sure.  All in the name of history.

 

[Sema Dragun]

Really surprised about reading this, Australia is a very backwards country and very behind the rest of the world and i see no reason for Canada to lower itself to that level.

 

[Lozart]

 Australia is a very backwards country and very behind the rest of the world 

By what metric?

The education ranking puts them 11th in the world, their economy is the 13th largest and their quality of life is the highest in the world. Or do you just mean that they banned guns?

 

[hitmanNo2]

Their Internet infrastructure is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit and that's all that matters ?

 

[Sema Dragun]

By what metric?

The education ranking puts them 11th in the world, their economy is the 13th largest and their quality of life is the highest in the world. Or do you just mean that they banned guns?

He he yeah just their views in regards to airsoft, guns their pretty good with, but they don't like replica's, just strange but thats their laws i suppose.

 

[Tommikka]

He he yeah just their views in regards to airsoft, guns their pretty good with, but they don't like replica's, just strange but thats their laws i suppose.

.... and it varies between territories.

Their laws have been reinforced due to a series of shootings, and the matter of replicas is a combination of replica specific and the knock on effect of the wording in firearms legislation.

Contrary to some of the headlines with the recent gel blaster situation it’s not just the law being heavy handed.  Certain importers knowingly ignored the law and imported & sold replica gel blasters, whereas there were also legal routes that they could have taken

In the UK we also have some BB and gel blaster retailers ignoring the law  

 

[Rogerborg]

In the UK we also have some BB and gel blaster retailers ignoring the law

Late to the party, but yup, we do.  If there is a crack down on assault-style toys, I reckon it'll come because of retailers taking the piss rather than the occasional firearms call out to lads larking in the woods (or being seen through their window).

Gelsoft UK seems to have purged their RIFs, but airsoft retailers aren't blameless. I could hop onto Airsoft World and pay them £20 for their fake "defence" that's nothing of the sort, or worse, onto Fat Bobs and just tick a "yeah, mate, for airsofting at airsoft sites and that" box, no more questions asked.  Plus the BBgunz sites don't seem bothered in practice, and will in particular send out "mystery boxes" with RIFs in them.

I've always been in two minds about whether we should rat out these sellers and get them smacked down, or whether that's just inviting trouble that will get the decent ones punished as well.

On the Canuckistani ban, I think it is as bad as it looks. The informal description of it was carefully worded to make it seem like it's not meant to actually ban low powered assault-style toys, but the actual wording says otherwise.  It looks like they're properly stuffed.