SB798 – Fight! For your right! To airsoft!
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
SB798 is a proposal of a new California Bill SB798 that will require all airsoft guns to be colored entirely in a bright color.
Please read our thread on this and voice your opposition directly to CA Legislators.
Everyone need to rally against this bill. Send letters and correspondence to the members of the California Senate Appropriation Committee. This bill needs to be defeated in this committee before it goes to the Senate floor.
I did some lobbying work in Sacramento and DC. Each letter from concerned citizens counts as 10 voters for these elected officials. Personalized each letter. Try not to follow the canned format generated by the airsoft retailers. They should not look like they came from one massive letter writing campaign.
Hope the retailers are organizing themselves into one political action commitee. Pool your resources together and make your presence felt. Find out which elected officials can help your goals. You help them, they help you.
To Any Freedom Loving American,
If this idiot Airsoft law with it’s unreasonable and unlawful restrictions is passed it will not only affect our ability to conduct a legitimate business and make a living but it will chase out much needed revenue out of CA. The studios will outsource more weapons and firearms related scenes to other places that will monetarily gain from our loss of the outsourcing. Everything from using the local help, Kraft Services and locations as well as many other areas will benefit from the revenue instead of our locals at Studio City & Burbank. Rumor has it that all the major Hong Kong plus Taiwanese outlet shops in So- Cal will relocate to Arizona and eliminate or take jobs with them. Just what CA needs a smaller tax base to make bigger promises on lies that they can’t deliver on. Here’s another side thought. A lot of people who complied with Kalifornia and got rid of their real steel that didn’t pass the “drop test” wound up selling their real steel and replacing it with Airsofts. My husband’s WWII Ithaca 1944 1911A1 (that was in the family for over 50 years) was replaced just this way. Wanting the authentic look and feel he went with a trademarked and highly upgraded 1911A1 Airsoft valued at $930.00 to have for a keepsake of his real one. He is not very happy at the thought of painting it blaze orange, pink or green. The trend of Airsoft collecting vs. real steel may soon reverse itself if idiot laws and politics continue to bend the Constitution to deny us our right to private property. City PD & SO have made similar mistakes since the 40’s in So-Cal. My husband’s family members were both. It never caused situations like this or made the paper. Politicians and a certain Ca sheriff’s dept need to remember an incident of about 18 years ago at a popular Foothill sporting goods store where deputies shot a man for swinging a cane at them while in his wheel chair. Alas, the cane wasn’t painted pink or some such color nor did it contain a hidden weapon. Where were our bleeding heart politicians on that one? My husband remembers the stories of a few accidental shootings by “LEO” and poorly executed search warrants with wrong addresses with the same result due to not announcing of who was kicking the door in at 03:00. How about a testing of this situation? Point anything at “LEO” and see what happens, even a pocketknife. Take a gold color broomstick and point it at “LEO” from a window or right on the street and see what happens. Hey, why paint an Airsoft? Disarm all “LEO” like the UK. Really worked well there! That move was like prohibition to Al Capone for the IRA.
We fought for America, Freedom, our Constitution and most of all our people to be free to peruse a life that was morally legitimate. Also to be free to succeed or fail at what they did with their lives. Not politicians distorting and openly abusing those positions to enslave our people and steal our property. If this is the case, we wished we had never put on those uniforms.