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BOY CULTURE: An Encyclopedia: E-Book and excerpts – LINK HERE

You know your little hobby has made the ‘big time’ when the academics and scholars start to inform, dissect, categorize, reflect on, title and “study” what’s happening with the participant-humans.  Specifically, when it “involves the children.”

Take, for example…BOY CULTURE: An Encyclopedia, which places “GUNS” and a few paragraphs in CHAPTER 6: “BAD” Boys.

Certainly a scholarly tome, posted in e-book format for accessibility and ease-of-editing as new information becomes available, this one is edited by…well…as diverse a group of individuals as you might imagine.  But the WHO is not as important as the WHY...."

Crucial timing but a solid transition for the EAA….we know Matt, Joachim and the gang will continue their fight against burdensome regulations that threaten the game ‘over there’  and we are here to help them as they’ve done for all of us, too!

Our buddy Matt Furey-King puts some more perspective on the proposed AIR STUPID European Union ‘trial balloon’ being floated to have all airsofters register their replicas as if they were actual firearms or face criminal penalties…all in the name of fighting terrorism. 

AIRSOFTERS ARE NOT CRIMINALS and AIRSOFT IS NOT THE PROBLEM!…CLICK THE PIC or Matt’s link to the EAA Facebook Page for the full details and a STEP BY STEP list of things you need to do now to fight this!

Apparently "MILSIM" is a real thing, and Military representatives and business people from around the globe will be headed to Singapore to "discover MilSim."

You know we're just having a little fun with the expo's title, but it would not surprise us if Airsoft-as-a-training tool will be absent from this event, as Singapore's authorities are notoriously tough against anything related to our 'game' there...

Still, we do see Orange Tips on some of the event's publicity photos, so....Stay Tuned!

Just like all stories of this type…it comes down to LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION.   It might be the only lot in the ‘hood, but next to a day care center, in the open with ghillies..???

Still, fair response by LEO…although this is far from a cut-and-dried shoot-no shoot situation.  More likely being used as a ‘cite and learn for the teens and for their community.  As well it should be….

CLICK THE LINK or CLICK THE PIC to see the video from NBC 5 in Chi-Town…

BUT, NO…they don’t need to be regulated as a dangerous big-bad-mean old airsoft guns, BB gun, or REAL Pew Pew guns are…we have “markers”….hoooBoyeeeee!

CLICK THE PIC to see the VIDEO and the whole story

THE MORE I see from Massachusetts’ Gun Owners Action League – GOAL – the more I like these folks!  Nailing it on House Bill 3476 AND ALL 2nd Amendment Rights issues in the Commonwealth.

Now, how’bout you Bean Town guys support the politicians who support you?  D? I D-ON’T Think So… CLICK THE PIC to read the OpEd and to get onboard with the guys who are on OUR SIDE!

That’s right…An Airsoft video you WILL BE TALKING ABOUT for days over on World Star Hip Hop.com….

Did this man do the right thing? The wrong thing?  What would YOU have done in this situation? Should Police have been called?  How about these kids’ parents/guardians? Could getting law enforcement involved have been a bad idea?  Was SHOOTING VIDEO of the encounter and his actions a good idea?

CLICK THE PIC, Watch the video and then LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS on Thumpy’s Socials….Seriously…we want to know

I kinda feel real sadzorz for the guys at retailers and import places in California…as they have to spend an extra amount of their time to spin up customers on this silly law.  But, this is what happens when you let politicians write bad law, don’t crush it with vigilance, and then reap the consequences.

NOTE TO PLAYERS: We have already seen some of you morons…yea, calling you out but NOT sharing your insanity…putting neon tape on your REAL STEEL GUNS to “show those guys in Sacramento…” Show them what, exactly?  That you are stupid and want to get shot?  That you were so intelligent to figure this out?  Please.  Don’t make it worse than it already is.

‘199 Stupid is 199-percent DEAD WRONG!  TREAT, NEVER, KEEP, KEEP is in full force-and-effect still.  “Rule of 4 Stupids” is still the prevailing rule-of-the-street.   Keep all your guns in gun bags/cases/boxes. DO NOT GO OUT IN PUBLIC with any airsoft gun unless it is in a controlled situation. Ever.

Our Buddy SLICK AXE over at NL Airsoft is sounding the alarm on one of the most AIR STUPID regulations we’ve ever heard of.

CLICK THE PIC to read the full details and get links for your official comments to be registered with the European Union…but in a nut-shell a proposal has been pushed forward to REQUIRE COMPULSORY REGISTRATION OF AIRSOFT GUNS AS FIREARMS!

Seriously.  Is this the best you can do EU at a time of crisis?  If I was in Europe, I’d be seriously pissed even if I was not an airsofter…but you guys who have the RIGHT to play need to stand up now for ALL YOUR RIGHTS!  AIRSOFTERS ARE NOT CRIMINALS…and they don’t need to be made into criminals at a time when resources are stretched so thin to take the wolves out of the midst of law-abiding people around the world!   DO.  THIS.  NOW!

To stay up on the latest in this fight, you can also FOLLOW NL AIRSOFT’s FB FAN PAGE for threads discussing the tactics for this fight, too!  And it won’t hurt in the least to share this around the globe, too!

Man, the real deal ARMY in Brazil controls their sport?  Big Brother Much?  Still, shops and thousands of players are putting up with it, and marching on!  GOOD FOR YOU DUDES!  Dudettes, too…although we don’t see many in this video from GSG9 BRAZIL….wonder why?  Cultural thing?  ASK EM over at their video chan’….

See, its not happening JUST in the USA….people can misuse any item, to the detriment of any game…paintball, airsoft, cars, motorcycles…Ham Radios….

Don’t be that guy….CLICK THE PIC to read the story, and thanks/hat tip to our buddy Ronaldo in K-Zed-N for pushing this one along!