Paintball Toy Guns
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 Battle MAX Marker SCEPTOR V10 Rival Force Pump Air Toy Gun BLUE RED With Tags $65.00 Time Remaining: 20d 5h 45m Buy It Now for only: $65.00 |
 M4 Laser Tag Gun with scope Set of 20 and Gun Programmer Lazer taggers $8,750.00 Time Remaining: 15d 18h 21m Buy It Now for only: $8,750.00 |
 Toy Paintball Cap Gun Rifle Inventory Tracking Software $44.95 Time Remaining: 4d 17h 39m Buy It Now for only: $44.95 |
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Aliens in the Attic
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DescriptionFeatures include: •MPAA Rating: PG•Format: DVD•Runtime: 86 minutes |
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Xpolderz XBlaster 200
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DescriptionHave an awesome time playing with this Xblaster 200, the hot Xploderz play gun. Unlike other guns , the ammo of this gun features H2O grow technology. In other words, just place ammo into the clip; sumberge in the water; and watch the amo grow... |
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Air Hogs Vectron Wave Battle - Green
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DescriptionFeatures Full working Vectron with sensor technology Laser gun Vectron can sense laser and moves away from it- interative play Includes: 1 Vectron Wave ,1 Charger/Laser Gun,1 Instruction Sheet, 3 shots from the gun, Vectron deactivates, Multiple ways to play |
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Hog Wild Original Power Popper
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DescriptionSuper easy and mega fun--just load the soft foam balls into the Power Popper, pump the handles and watch the balls fly! Soft foam balls don't hurt and are safe for indoor play. This fun play rifle is air powered--just pump faster to shoot further... |
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James Bond 007: GoldenEye 007 Classic Edition Hardware Bundle with Gold Wii Classic Controller Pro
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DescriptionActivision James Bond 007 84038 PC Games |
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Wii Shot Gun
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DescriptionCTA DIGITAL WI-SG Shot Gun for Nintendo Wii. Pinpoint your laser guided target and blast virtual rounds of ammo with the Shotgun from CTA Digital. This plastic shotgun possesses a very life like mold, yet its white plastic color prevents it from being mistaken for an actual shotgun... |
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Wii Magnum Gun
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DescriptionPALM-FITTED VIRTUAL GUN WITH AUTHENTIC FEEL; LIFE-LIKE MOLD WITH WHITE PLASTIC FACADE; INFRARED LASER BENEATH BARREL FOR PINPOINT ACCURACY ; LIGHTWEIGHT ; COMPATIBLE WITH WIITM REMOTE; INCLUDES 1 BLACK & 1 SILVER INFRARED LASER GUN |
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M248 120 FPS Spring Airsoft Machine Gun w/Shoulder Strap, Blue LED Light Attachment & Sample BBs
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DescriptionM248 120 FPS Spring Airsoft Machine Gun w/Shoulder Strap, Blue LED Light Attachment & Sample BBs |
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NcStar Red Dot Reflex Sight Weaver Base
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DescriptionNcStar Red Dot Reflex Sight Weaver Base a quality electronic red dot sight. Made from durable plastic and will fit on weaver style rails. Will work on any gun or rifle that has weaver rails. The Reflex Sight Weaver Base comes with cleaning cloth and extra batteries. |
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Paintball/Airsoft Adjustable 3/4" Weaver Rail Laser Sight
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DescriptionThis is the perfect little accessory to improve aim or just upgrade any of your Airsoft handguns or rifles. This red laser sight comes with a spring coiled cable style trigger that can be kept under the included elastic band to allow the user to turn on the laser sight without affecting your grip... |
The Growing Popularity of Airsoft Guns
Airsoft guns may soon be going the way of real guns around the world, even in the US. Built to resemble actual weapons, Airsoft guns instead shoot pellets and are used in several games much like paintball. These games range from freeform death match style in which all the players are basically out for themselves and anything goes, to team play that resembles war games. Although pellets are used instead of bullets or paintballs, getting hit can still result in a nasty sting and a lingering wound.
Complaints against Airsoft guns have come from a number of quarters. For instance, the University of Hawaii at Manoa has banned Airsoft guns. Despite that ban-or, indeed, perhaps because of it-the campus was the site of a series of assaults on students by someone using an Airsoft pellet gun. Even so, much of the uproar has less to do with the damage done by the pellets and more with the construction of the guns themselves.
Airsoft guns can take the form of handguns or larger rifles and they can look remarkably realistic. It is this realism that has raised questions of safety, not the actual damage done by the pellets. Recently in Florida, a middle school student was shot by police after he brandished a weapon at them. The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun, though it was never established whether or not it was actually an Airsoft gun. From a distance, Airsoft guns definitely resemble the real thing and this has certainly led to a move to ban them.
In light of the calls to ban what are essentially toys, it's quite ironic that the rise of Airsoft popularity began in Asian countries where access to real firearms is difficult. The realistic look of the guns contributed to the popularity of the games in which they used, lending them a certain reality that older style pellet guns simply didn't have. Eventually, the craze pushed westward and took up residence in Europe and America. With the lax gun control laws in America, these Airsoft guns are much more dangerous. While it's unlikely that a large group of young people in Japan or England would be walking around openly carrying real guns, the police in America don't have the luxury of second guessing. If a policeman sees a gun that looks real he simply has to assume that it is real, especially when pointed at him.
The answer, clearly, doesn't have to be outright banning of Airsoft guns. Since even accidental victims of pellet shots often admit that getting shot by one of them isn't terribly painful, it seems rather ridiculous to ban these guns when the banning of real handguns are impossible. Rather, why not just make them less realistic? That doesn't necessarily entail stripping the Airsoft guns of all realism, but would it hurt to redesign them subtly so that it is obvious they aren't actual handguns?
The cost of realism in a game hardly seems worth the price of a life.
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