"a white ball-bearing type gun"

[Pseudotectonic]

https://www.burymercury.co.uk/news/24345047.second-report-weapon-seen-bury-st-edmunds-town-centre/

 

"air-powered ball-bearing weapons"

 

why do people always come up with new nicknames for airsoft

 

[Tackle]

Because airsoft doesn't sound evil or lethal, so won't sell papers or generate clickbait.

poxy media, free press my arse?

[Shamal]

Yep drama sells papers.

I can hear the anti brigade strutting and clucking as we speak ☹️

[GenuineGerman]

Yep headline sellers, more press like this and I can see a new government going full Australia. 

[Rogerborg]

The cretins who continue to open-carry RIFs (or even IFs in this case) are very lucky that our firearms units roll up far less trigger happy and primed to execute than US coppers.

 

But eventually, an airsofter (or cosplayer) is going to win the Pavement Temperature Challenge, and they'll have no-one to blame but themselves. That will likely be the trigger for collectively punishing responsible owners.

 

Aside, a white IF?  There are only a few that I know of, e.g. the XR-5, and didn't Black Viper / Well do a g36 in white?  I wonder if that was actually a gel blaster. ?