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RESPECT is a two-way street, a broad avenue that you not only can drive up and down in your cheap little VW, “sporty” Acura or big, expensive Pagani Huayra…but from time to time, you might have to walk ACROSS that road with the rest of us “pedestrians.”  That’s when you discover that the road you pave does not stop at the end of your own driveway, even at 1 Hacker Way.

Writing All Lives Matter doesn’t make someone a racist.  It makes them race-agnostic.  Banning the use of your products (Facebook/Instagram…) for lawful purposes by the users (airsoft and milsim players, as well as law-abiding gun owners) makes you small, petty and controlling. And frankly, control is not what you should be about.  It is what makes you a Zuckerschmuck. Stop it.  Grow up.

Merlin seems to be on the right track with his thoughts, too….as are a lot of other guys commenting on the ‘webz. We need to be the good guys, shining the foregrip-mounted light of fair play on the morons who are hurting our little game. Air Stupids. Bad Sports and both cheaters and cheater-callers.  Mark Z. included.

OK, apparently there WAS a beginning of how the Airsoft/BB-Pellet Gun/Paintball-Killing House Bill 3476 came to be.  What appeared to be a fast-track of the bill through the Statehouse on Beacon Hill was derailed and send back to committee on Wednesday, partly through the efforts of pro-gun groups including Gun Owners Action League/GOAL…and a bunch of our fellow-‘softers up-North, SISU MILSIM & ROB from FUBAR Airsoft and his guys included.

But, the fast-track-trickery DID have some ‘sunlight’ that was missed in the big run-up to this week’s continuing drama….in a hearing covered back on January 7th by WBZ-TV in Boston.  And, we finally get to see and hear from the “proponents” of H-3476, including the bill’s sponsor…and Boston’s police commissioner BILL EVANS.  You remember…the guys who told people to stay indoors/shelter in place after the Marathon Bombings as they “kept Bostonians safe” by forcible armed WARRANTLESS SEARCHES of private homes and businesses in the aftermath of the Marathon Bombings.  Yea, do you trust them to protect your rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in our current situation?  This “JOURNALISTIC HIT PIECE” VIDEO…where we never actually hear from an opponent, BTW!…is infuriating!

SEE THE VIDEO AND READ THE WHOLE STORY AT THUMPY'S AIRSOFT NEWS AND COMMENT!   CLICK THAT PIC!

There is one important date today that I can not make.  But I will be there in spirit and ready to help where I can as backup-from-the-cybernet’.  GO GET ‘EM MASSACHUSSETTS! STORM THE STATEHOUSE and Crush H-3476 TODAY!

CLICK THE PIC RIGHT NOW to SEE and SHARE the video from SISU MILSIM, which explains the true nationwide threat of Massachusetts House Bill 3476 and LINKS TO THE SITE on Facebook where ‘Softers and MilSim gals and guys can go for the best information on KILLING THIS THING DEAD!

GREAT JOB by Sisu…and you also need to start following her ‘gang of killer teddys as they rampage acrosss the USA the way our hobby/sport/game should be enjoyed!

SPREAD THE WORD!

I kinda feel real sadzorz for the guys at retailers and import places in California…as they have to spend an extra amount of their time to spin up customers on this silly law.  But, this is what happens when you let politicians write bad law, don’t crush it with vigilance, and then reap the consequences.

NOTE TO PLAYERS: We have already seen some of you morons…yea, calling you out but NOT sharing your insanity…putting neon tape on your REAL STEEL GUNS to “show those guys in Sacramento…” Show them what, exactly?  That you are stupid and want to get shot?  That you were so intelligent to figure this out?  Please.  Don’t make it worse than it already is.

‘199 Stupid is 199-percent DEAD WRONG!  TREAT, NEVER, KEEP, KEEP is in full force-and-effect still.  “Rule of 4 Stupids” is still the prevailing rule-of-the-street.   Keep all your guns in gun bags/cases/boxes. DO NOT GO OUT IN PUBLIC with any airsoft gun unless it is in a controlled situation. Ever.

Our Buddy SLICK AXE over at NL Airsoft is sounding the alarm on one of the most AIR STUPID regulations we’ve ever heard of.

CLICK THE PIC to read the full details and get links for your official comments to be registered with the European Union…but in a nut-shell a proposal has been pushed forward to REQUIRE COMPULSORY REGISTRATION OF AIRSOFT GUNS AS FIREARMS!

Seriously.  Is this the best you can do EU at a time of crisis?  If I was in Europe, I’d be seriously pissed even if I was not an airsofter…but you guys who have the RIGHT to play need to stand up now for ALL YOUR RIGHTS!  AIRSOFTERS ARE NOT CRIMINALS…and they don’t need to be made into criminals at a time when resources are stretched so thin to take the wolves out of the midst of law-abiding people around the world!   DO.  THIS.  NOW!

To stay up on the latest in this fight, you can also FOLLOW NL AIRSOFT’s FB FAN PAGE for threads discussing the tactics for this fight, too!  And it won’t hurt in the least to share this around the globe, too!

WOWSER!  Our buddy ERIC G. from SOLDIER SYSTEMS DAILY is boots-on-the-ground at MILIPOL 2105 in Paris and just minutes ago snapped some more detailed pics of the police/military training Glocks at the Spartan Imports Europe stand….EXCLUSIVE to Thumpy’s as we add some context to the first licensed airsoft product signed off on by Glock!

CLICK ANY OF THE PICS BELOW TO GO TO SSD and see all of Eric’s Coverage…as well as the links to his social channels and to the Airsoft-Savvy and Smart TACTICAL FANBOY page from the Soldier Systems Family (Hi Wolf!  Hope you’re healing up buddy!)

FANTASTIC Profile of “Devildog” Jeff Takeda from PTS…but an even better sales and awareness tool for the real-steel/LEO/dot-MIL community for getting the word out on AIRSOFT as a serious training tool!   VERY. WELL DONE!   CLICK JEFF’S PIC above to get directly in contact with him via the PTS FB page, or hit one of the links under the video…