[quote]Very true. I think what people are going to fail to understand is the "wrong place and time" bit. There could be 1,000 cases where kids play with air soft guns and are totally fine, but the 1 where they're in serious risk of being hurt or hurting others makes the whole thing not worth it. However, I believe kids under 18 should be allowed to play airsoft in the "zones" it's permitted in, like paintball arenas.[/quote] I disagree. A drunk driver should not mean my car gets taken from me. Someone who hacks a government server should not mean my computer is seized. A kid who shoots their sister in the house should not mean that my paintball gun is banned. I've done nothing wrong.

-drunk driving is illegal, not driving itself -governmental hacking is illegal, not the computers themselves -assault of a minor is illegal, not the paintball gun itself -why shouldn't minors playing with airsoft guns be illegal, not because of the airsoft gun, but because the danger it could cause? I'm not saying anything as radical as banning them for everyone, forever. It could be as simple as making them gaudy colors, so as not to be mistaken for real guns. The level of realism put into airsoft guns would be fine if used from a collector's standpoint, but to actually walk about in the open with them just isn't worth the trouble.

Right. So we should address the walking in open with them, not the ownership. And you'd need to [i]demonstrate[/i] the danger that the owning and operating of airsoft guns by minors is a danger, not just claim it.

Agreed. And kids have been shot and killed not too long ago due to the not-so-smart decision of flaunting an airsoft gun in public areas.