Old Man

Dodge this.

"What is Pokemon about, anyway?" "Kids run around trapping wild animals and making them fight each other. It's basically a cartoon about cockfighting."

Yeah, or you could back up.

They're multiplying!

Not if they pretend you were reaching for your waistband.

So the big attraction with airsoft is that they're supposed to be realistic replicas. My M4 and HK51 have detachable magazines and the mag release, safety, and charging handles all work like they do on the real steel guns. They are of foreign origin, and in order to avoid problems with customs, they 1) had their replica trademarks puttied over and 2) each had an inch of barrel painted orange. It took me about half an hour per gun to take the orange off with some solvent. Then I threw on some nice optics, three-point slings, uprated springs and pistons... but I digress. However, it's important to remember that BB and pellet guns are not actually required to have orange tips by federal law. State and city laws vary, of course--depending on the state, airsoft guns may be required to have orange tips, may be considered real firearms, may be outright illegal, or may have no additional restrictions whatsoever. My M9 (since stolen) and my Benelli shotgun did not come with orange paint, as they were procured locally. And of course BB and paintball guns are not sold with orange tips. Anyway, the point is that replica guns do not necessarily have to have orange on them, and that they can, as a result, be a kind of Darwin Award catalyst when mixed with jittery cops. Still, it's important to remember that skin color seems to have a big impact on police response--white douchebags open carrying with real guns might get questioned by police, whereas black kids with toys get gunned down without warning.

I'd agree with you but I don't want to get shot.

Which is why, when I was fairly heavily into airsoft, our group was pretty militant about having members follow transportation rules for real steel firearms--in a case, preferably locked, unless you were indoors at home or on the field. We made it very clear that waving a real-looking gun around in public was likely to result in a real gunfight with real cops, and deservedly so. Unfortunately the police mindset, at best, seems to be that any held object looks like a gun, and any movement of the hands looks like "reaching for the waistband". At worst, cops are killing with impunity and trotting these excuses out as a matter of routine to deflect discipline.

Is it too much to ask that my brand new projector not get thrown on the floor?

Lol no.

It's common for the local press to be unable or unwilling to report on government corruption and abuse in third world countries.

Whereas Florida police merely tase elderly people with their hands up:

Chicago police torturer lent expertise to Guantanamo Bay interrogators

If you say so. Domestic renditions of Americans by American police

I thought you said "cynism", not "cyanism".

Only sometimes?

The epoch.

5 o'clock? Why so late?

I wonder what the recoil is on a round that's 6500 meters across. Good to hear they're changing up the caliber. Mid-6mm rounds have proven superior ballistic performance to existing small arms ammunition. Changing the caliber when they switch over to telescoped makes too much sense. (Not that that would stop the DOD of course.)

Russian helmet testing:

qatlh Qo' vay' rur nID maH?

Pretty much any of it? Isn't that the whole concept?

What difference does that make? Does the child not have parental supervision?

Why is there poop on the walls in here?! Seriously what is the matter with people?!