The difference between an airsoft gun and a BB gun

[Mitchell Gee]

Please note, what is written is copy and pasted from answers.com but edited to apply for the UK and not america...

Airsoft Guns shoot 6mm plastic BB, usually around 300 Feet per second (FPS,) some faster, some slower. The law requires that all air soft guns and rifles have at least 51% of the gun brightly coloured, unless it was purchased before the VCRA act in 2007 or the buyer has (or had) a UKARA license at the time of purchase. They sting you when they hit you.

BB Guns shoot smaller .177 (4.5) steel BB's starting at 300 FPS up to 1,000 FPS in the more powerful rifles. These guns do not have to be 51% brightly coloured or require a UKARA license to buy them because they are not toys and can be deadly. BB guns are part of the family of "Pellet Guns" that shoot pellets or BB's but are also driven by compressed air just like the BB guns.

BB and Pellet guns can do serious damage to a person if they hit you.

We have all had that moment when some person who thinks shooting someone with a gun (airsoft or over wise) fun, they come up to you and say "I shot my friend with a BB gun yesterday" then you respond with something like "What the **** you could of killed them" then that is responded to with "Well you do it with expensive ones..."

Always an awkward moment...

Thanks,

Mitchell

 

[M_P]

Are you asking a question or what?

 

[two_zero]

These guns do not have to be 51% brightly coloured or require a UKARA license to buy them because they are not toys and can be deadly.

rofl

To be fair thou, both of them can if you're unfortunate/ignorant/responsible cause serious damage.

Also, if any supporting two-tone would read that post I think we are more likely to end up with pink air guns than black airsofts ^^

 

[MZKaleem]

um why tell us, write it to your friends on face book !!!

 

[walshy155]

There is no such thing as a UKARA licence.

 

[Deva]

I think we know what he meant but I don't see the point in the post

In my mind a 'BB gun' is a cheap 'airsoft gun' i.e. a springer for £50 or less.

 

[Mitchell Gee]

sorry... i just wanted to clear up any confusion people are having... delete it if u want...

 

[M_P]

I'm always confuddled lol

 

[Cerbo Knight]

What is this I don't even.

In my mind the scale of power goes;

BB guns < Airsoft guns < Air guns.

 

[M_P]

....<guns

 

[Mitchell Gee]

BB guns are in fact an air gun that takes ball bearing (BB's) metal ones though... plastic ones would just be like... load>aim>fire>dust flies out end

 

[G-Force]

What did this post acctually achieve? :lol:

 

[sarni307]

+1. That's 2mins of my life lost

 

[G-Force]

You will never get those 2 mins back...

 

[M_P]

A little bit of ridicule

 

[Mitchell Gee]

sorry :S, I just noticed a few people call airsoft guns BB guns and it irritates me slightly, like i said, mods, if you do not see any reason for this threads existence, please delete it

 

[Dan_uk86]

BB guns = airsoft the best fun a man (and woman) can have and safely

Air guns = someone who wants to fire metal pellets at animals (or ppl if they are mad enough) and is no fun at all

 

[Cerbo Knight]

If someone ever called my airsoft guns bb guns, I think I'd slap them.

 

[Airsofter123]

Airsoft - it's down to you to take your hits

BB gun- if someone was mad enough to shoot you with this, there'd be little room for doubt.

 

[Mitchell Gee]

exactly, a BB gun is a air gun that fires ball bearings, you can buy conversion kit for a .177 air rifle/pistol to allow it to fire metal BB's, which basically converts it into a BB gun