{"id":17716,"date":"2010-03-01T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17716"},"modified":"2010-03-01T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:51:10","slug":"atf-seizes-30-air-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17716","title":{"rendered":"ATF seizes 30 air guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

1stCavRVN11B sent this article about ATF seizing a shipment of 30 airsoft guns, claiming that they could easily be converted to “machine guns” (article from KOIN6<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.<\/p>\n

Brad Martin and his son, Ben, sell the Airsoft BB guns from their store in Cornelius where they\u2019ve been in business for seven years.<\/p>\n

The Martins said they buy their stock from Taiwan because the merchandise is less expensive. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized a shipment of 30 in October. That shipment is worth around $12,000 and the ATF is promising to destroy the entire shipment. <\/p>\n

Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.<\/p>\n

“With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,” Crenshaw said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I don’t know much about air-soft, but what I’ve been able to find out is that they fire a missile using pressurized air – every firearm I’ve handled is not like that. It sounds to me like the ATF is over-reacting because the guns don’t have orange paint on the barrel. And I’m wondering if the ATF even knows what a machine gun is at this point, unless Special Agent Crenshaw was talking down to the media.<\/p>\n

Airsoft can’t be that rugged if it attracts people like this to the sport<\/a>, though. I’m sorry, but I forgot who sent me that link last week or so – it’s been keeping me in stitches ever since. Notice each of their profiles mention that their military experience is “classified” – I’d change that to “wussified” for accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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