Tag: airsoft
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ATF Decrees An Airsoft Rifle A Real Firearm
For a while now we have known that the ATF has had an interest in airsoft guns which they claimed could be turned into real firearms. We discussed it extensively in the following three posts: Airsoft Gun Seizure – Apparently Toys Can Be Real Guns 80% AR-15 Lower Receiver V.S. Airsoft Lower Receiver – Is…
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Airsoft To AR-15 Conversion – Fox News And ATF Beating A Dead Horse
A FoxNews.com investigation reveals that a popular recreational pellet gun can be converted easily to a real semi-automatic weapon. And while the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is already aware of the issue, these “toys” — new, top-of-the-line airsoft rifles — continue to be sold throughout the country. Full Story – HERE…
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AKAR-15 Is A Painful Combination To Behold
Check out this rifle from the movie Echelon Conspiracy: Oh where to begin…. Should we start with the fact that it is an AK / AR-15 hybrid (We’ll call it the AKAR-15) … which has an AK bolt carrier and charging handle, but yet has an AR-15 style forward assist inside an AR-15 style A2…
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Paintball / Airsoft Sentry Gun – Liability For Real Weapon Applications?
This software is designed to automatically detect, track and anticipate moving targets so that a robotic turret, powered by off-the-shelf hobby servos, can accurately engage them. The turret can be bought or built to aim a paintball gun, second video/still image camera, airsoft gun, water gun, nerf gun, laser, etc… Source – The Sentry Project…
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80% AR-15 Lower Receiver V.S. Airsoft Lower Receiver – Is there a legal difference?
I was thinking some more about that recent ATF airsoft seizure and came up with the following… For your information, per provisions of the Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, an unlicensed individual may make a “firearm” as defined in the GCA for his own personal use, but not for sale…
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Airsoft Gun Seizure – Apparently Toys Can Be Real Guns
I didn’t report on this story when it first surfaced because I thought it was stupid, and would go away quickly. But It didn’t. TACOMA, Wash. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized a shipment of 30 machine guns that arrived in an ocean container at the Tacoma Seaport last October. Officials say the…