Thursday, November 11, 2010

Air BATFU

The Kelvin Crenshaw Experience!
Airsoft Insanity. ATF, having plunged its left arm in a pot of boiling oil over pistol grip shotguns, sticks its right in over Airsoft "machine guns." [More]
Sipsey Street Irregulars brings us this latest in an ongoing saga.

Question: Why can't the original page be found? What's with a cached version only? Perhaps it's just an innocuous glitch, but where BATFU is concerned, I make no assumptions.

Regulars will recall we've been following this story for some time:

Why is ATF seizing toy guns?

Why is ATF ducking questions about 'toy gun' seizure?

Why do ATF employees question fitness of agent in 'toy gun' seizure?

Fox News: Airsoft can be converted to real guns. Will that make toy owners felons? As a follow-up to that question, I asked:
If, in fact, these toy guns pose a legal and real danger, is everyone in possession of such a lower receiver now in possession of an illegal firearm?

Will there be a recall? Will BATFE issue a circular to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers...and local law enforcement?

Importantly, will anyone who has one now be in danger of being classified a felon if it can be proven they know about this, making their possession or transfer of their airsoft gun "willful," and thus subject to criminal prosecution?

Do we now have a new crop of criminals? Hundreds or thousands of them? How could that not be the case?
UPDATE: Mike doesn't think the cache business is necessarily innocuous either.

4 comments:

Defender said...

Cool. They want to alienate the formerly-apolitical and apathetic Generation Y and Z toy-gun gamers. You KNOW THEY don't give a crap about the law or much of anything else. Now they will.

Mike H said...

After toy guns eh? These neonazis would've shit bricks if they had seen my collection back in the late 50's early 60's. When toys looked very real. Yet btw, I knew the difference, something some kids don't know now I've heard.

Anonymous said...

It's too bad you can't make these things or anything.... I mean gee whiz, a little scape metal and a drill, maybe a file and you got yourself a fine little NFA weapon.

Incidentally, I just happen to have seen on of these once. Produced in a "correctional facility" by someone in desperate need of additional correction, a fully functional copy of the S&W mod76 9mm smg, with ammo found elsewhere within.

airsoft pistols said...

Never touch a gun. Never let anyone you love touch a gun. Never let anyone you’ve ever met ever touch a gun. Never let anyone you’ve never met ever touch a gun. If no one ever touches guns, no one dies from guns. Unless one somehow thinks a bullet is a good thing, nothing good ever came from the barrel of a gun. Nothing. Not ever.