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Airsofters aren’t generally part of the Second Amendment community. Some happen to also own real firearms, but most airsofters are folks who like to play war. Rather than playing with sticks are toy guns like many of us did when we were kids, they use a weapon that fires a small projectile that eliminates the ageless debate of whether someone got someone else or not.
However, the pastime may be coming to an abrupt end up in Canada.
A new gun control bill from the federal government could spell the end of the Airsoft gun industry.
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A new gun control bill from the federal government could spell the end of the Airsoft gun industry.
Bill C-21, which has not yet passed, would ban “mid-velocity replica firearms.”
The text of the bill reads:
“Update the Criminal Code to ensure that any device, including an unregulated airgun that looks exactly like a conventional regulated firearm (i.e., shoots over 500 feet per second), is prohibited for the purposes of import, export, sale and transfer.
Current owners may keep their ‘replicas’ but cannot transfer them to anyone else.
No further ‘replica’ firearms could be imported into, or sold/transferred in Canada.