Unidentified Airsoft Company Raided in S. China

[ED-SKaR]

The will be remanded as evidance until such time as they are destroyed.

 

Does anyone know under what laws airsoft is banned in China? is it low powered air rifles or that they are replicas of real firearms?

[Nath]

The will be remanded as evidance until such time as they are destroyed.

 

Does anyone know under what laws airsoft is banned in China? is it low powered air rifles or that they are replicas of real firearms?

 

General gun ban for civilians in China I suppose.

[The Insider]

yes...... 99.9 % of mainlanders don't know what airsoft is..... compared to maybe 80 or 90% of HK people know what it is or at least what "wargames" are and have relations that play.

So the mainland will forever keep it banned....  ooh and theirs that whole "training private groups to over-throw the gov with airsoft guns" scenario, that will keep it this way... lol  =?
 

But with that said....  there is underground airsoft on the mainland and i'm aware of groups that have played in abandoned theme parks with over grown roller-coasters which would be a wicked game site to play.

And as the above bust was a deep inland city, so these airsoft guns were for the domestic market.
they are not manufacturers... and nothing "gangland" here..... ...just a family trying to make a buck....    and a Gov apparently cracking down on knife welding terrorists.

 

[hitmanNo2]

A bit ironic giving a about these fancy knives when September the 11th was done with Stanleys.

[heroshark]

Is it me or does that third pic deserve a meme?

 

[renegadecow]

That can't be right. Should be a blow-up doll in there or two.

[HardcoreCook]

"Hey Ching, check me out!

Eh yo, I got 99 pistols but a gun ain't one!"

[FireKnife]

That can't be right. Should be a blow-up doll in there or two.

 

Two? Two thousand more like.

 

Though why the hell would I have that many WE (or cheapy ACM) pistols.

 

'FireKnife'

[ED-SKaR]

A more important question is why I've spent the morning trying to design an airsoft crossbow rather than doing my PLC assignment

[AG1212]

Heh, Chinese propaganda, trying to make the Police look good (photos look more like from a photo-shoot than documentation). Can't believe the likes of the BBC copy/paste this *suitcase*,  that Daily Mail article was just horrendous though, blatantly making *suitcase* up to pad out the article.

[ninja master of coffee]

Well the BBC seems to react with the same hysteria that any story that contains the words 'gun' or 'firearm' in it. They just ran a story on some weapons seizure in London quoting the police as having seized "30 firearms!" They then had photos of the "30 firearms!" Which included numerous CO2 air pistols, about three air rifles, a couple of fairly obvious cheap BB springers (AR15 with no buffer tube and a scope... Clearly some piece of from China that likely puts out about 150fps). The CO2 air pistols were pictured with CO2 capsules and even air gun pellets. There were a couple of actual firearms, including a sawed off shotgun, a Thompson with no fore grip and what looked like an 1800's revolver with no chamber, hammer or trigger guard. So, cynical police and gullible BBC.

[Mike_West]

Are you sure that Thompson was real? I believe that the last Thompson they got there was melted down in the 1960s...

[ninja master of coffee]

It was one of only two guns mentioned by name in the article, along with the sawn off shotgun. There were a couple of what looked like real pistols two, I think a couple of PKKs and maybe a couple browning 1903s (both the normal and pocket versions). The article was frankly a joke journalistically. Sure, the police may well have recovered some fire arms from probably a real criminal but most of them were clearly air pistols or so badly broken that they'd elicit laughter more than fear, I don't many people would be taken in by a revolver with no chamber.