The main case I am referring to "now mind you i don't have the actual police reports this is what i got from the report that i read on another site" There was a 13 year old kid running around on a public street at night with very low light, waving an airsoft gun around. Right there we have a problem. It is night you are out on the street with airsoft guns. HMMM!!! what do you think happened next...
That's right the police were called case someone reported seeing a kid with a gun. Which I do not blame that person, if I see a kid running around with a gun at night and i can not tell it is an airsoft i am going to make the same call to protect myself and my family. Anyway the cops came upon the kid and told him to drop the gun and put his hands up. Now I don't know about you but when that happens to me I listen. Not this kid he turned around with the gun and looked to be drawing it on the cops. What did the cops do?
They shot the poor kid, now I do not have definets on weather he was killed or injured. But there a some things that could have prevented this.
1. Parents, had the parents of this child been doing the right thing and making sure they know where there kid is maybe he wouldn't be out on the street waving a gun around.
2. Falls on the parents again. They should have been teaching there child how to properly handle a weapon.
3. The kid! If he had any form of common sense he would not have been out at night waving a gun around, furthermore he was given a direct order to drop the weapon and he did not.
4. The police. Yes the police have some fault in this as they could have used less lethal force like a rubber bullet, bean bag, or a tazer.
The issue here is one problem caused the next. It all goes back to the parents.
This bill is supported by some heavy hitters in the state especially in the southern California, The mayor of LA. The Chief of Police and other city officials. The problem with them supporting this bill is it is a cop killer bill. The idea is to make and airsoft gun brightly colored so they can easily tell that they are a replica gun. The only problem with that is then all we have to do is paint a real gun and then a cop gets shot cause he thought it was a replica or an airsoft gun. Something does not add up.
Another bad part of this bill is how much it will effect the California economy. A vast majority of the airsoft industry are located in California like:
http://www.airsplat.com/
http://www.airsoftpost.com/
http://airsoftgi.com/
http://www.airsoftextreme.com/content01/
and
http://www.spartanimports.com/store/
to name a few. I dont think the lawmakers realize how many employees these companies have and may put out of work. Furthermore look at the loss in tax revenue the state would loose in this bill. This bill is a loose loose situation,
Over the past few months these airsoft companies and many others that were not named here, have banded together like never before to out a stop to this bill. Organizing raleys and petitions, writing there local district government officials. And they even did a buss to the capitol to be there for the safety hearing. De Leon knew the opposition for this was growing and it appeared that he did everything he could to prevent the opposition from being there at the hearing. By moving the date a few times and making the bus date move, but we stayed vigilant and we still showed up.
The Hearing was held on 6-21-11 and it was shot down by a majority vote of 4-3 against the bill. Now it would appear that we have won this fight. But in all honesty they can start it right back up again to make our sport history as we know it. This is the time to stay vigilant and prove to the Lawmakers that airsoft is a sport that needs to stay the way it is and we don't need our guns to be a neon color. So remember NO ON SB798!!!!
AIRSOFT IS NOT A CRIME!!!
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