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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!

That’s right…An Airsoft video you WILL BE TALKING ABOUT for days over on World Star Hip Hop.com….

Did this man do the right thing? The wrong thing?  What would YOU have done in this situation? Should Police have been called?  How about these kids’ parents/guardians? Could getting law enforcement involved have been a bad idea?  Was SHOOTING VIDEO of the encounter and his actions a good idea?

CLICK THE PIC, Watch the video and then LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS on Thumpy’s Socials….Seriously…we want to know

MATT does a solid job of explaining how EVIKE is going to be handling customers purchases inside California…AND to those who are buying guns shipped FROM California, with special notice of the New York State-specific marking requirements.

What do YOU think?  CLICK THE PIC to read the whole story and weigh in with your opinions!

More AIR STUPID incidents with arrests and details, as covered by various media outlets across the fruited plains...and compiled by Thumpy.  DO YOU like the new way of covering AIR STUPIDS?  Please sound off and lets us know what you think!

ROME, Georgia NEWS TRIBUNE: “Man shot a kid with airsoft gun, had hydrocodone pills…: CLICK THE LINK

Glendale, Arizona police stop an armed robber…armed with CRAPTASTIC PLASTIC! … CLICK THE LINK

Marysville, Washington: Fake Drug Deal led to shooting in a shed…Airsoft gun involved (What is it with druggers and airsoft?…)  CLICK THE LINK!

The case that started is all is settled, 5 years later….details at LAIST.COM…CLICK THE PIC

Just like all stories of this type…it comes down to LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION.   It might be the only lot in the ‘hood, but next to a day care center, in the open with ghillies..???

Still, fair response by LEO…although this is far from a cut-and-dried shoot-no shoot situation.  More likely being used as a ‘cite and learn for the teens and for their community.  As well it should be….

CLICK THE LINK or CLICK THE PIC to see the video from NBC 5 in Chi-Town…

MORE on the continuing story surrounding the Cleveland shooting from 2014, including details of how Tamir Rice got the broken Craptastic Plastic pistol from his neighborhood friend, Devin Mims….

TO SEE THE VIDEO….CLICK HERE

THE MORE I see from Massachusetts’ Gun Owners Action League – GOAL – the more I like these folks!  Nailing it on House Bill 3476 AND ALL 2nd Amendment Rights issues in the Commonwealth.

Now, how’bout you Bean Town guys support the politicians who support you?  D? I D-ON’T Think So… CLICK THE PIC to read the OpEd and to get onboard with the guys who are on OUR SIDE!

BOY CULTURE: An Encyclopedia: E-Book and excerpts – LINK HERE

You know your little hobby has made the ‘big time’ when the academics and scholars start to inform, dissect, categorize, reflect on, title and “study” what’s happening with the participant-humans.  Specifically, when it “involves the children.”

Take, for example…BOY CULTURE: An Encyclopedia, which places “GUNS” and a few paragraphs in CHAPTER 6: “BAD” Boys.

Certainly a scholarly tome, posted in e-book format for accessibility and ease-of-editing as new information becomes available, this one is edited by…well…as diverse a group of individuals as you might imagine.  But the WHO is not as important as the WHY...."

This is coming in from various news outlets around Indianapolis, as 4 young men were arrested and one nearly shot by police Thursday night after they entered an old state hospital

site to play airsoft and get video for a YT channel….

LINK TO THE INDYCHANNEL.COM’s coverage..including a short video with more details…

Helmet Tap to SEAN ST.CIN over at Bay Area Airsofters FB page for catching this very DANGEROUS incident

BREAKING: Jacksonville, Florida – Police shoot and injure a teen overnight when he reached into waistband and pulled out airsoft pistol..after a neighbor reported seeing him shooting on a street at night and also shooting at windows.   “Diminished mental capacity” say cops…and press conferences already set for Saturday morning….

Another week of craziness across the Fruited Plains, with holdups, an airsoft SHOOTING during a robbery, and a bunch of arrests!  YAY, at least these AIR STUPIDS won't be out among the rest of us for awhile.  To read 'em all...CLICK THE PICS!

UPDATE: More from KUTV at THIS LINK, with details from the Police Chief...

DIRECT FROM THE CITY PD, and a great one to SHARE TODAY!

IS THIS TRUE WHERE YOU LIVE?  We knew about the well-reported pull-out from the “tactical” AR and Shotgun lines…but several REDDIT‘s (including LISANAWOW) have reported finding bare airsoft shelves or guns in the clearance aisles.  CLICK THE PIC to read the thread and then PLEASE CHECK AT YOUR STORE AND REPORT IN WITH YOUR FINDINGS!  emails/phots to Thumpy3D@gmail.com or post up here where you find this on our social channels.

And, guess what went POP in this story?  Yea, another guy lucky that its wasn’t a story that ended with “POP goes the Weasel…”

HESITATED?  NO! Never EVER HESITATE when a police officer or anyone tells you to put down an airsoft gun.  The “reason” for the hesitation?…READ THE ARTICLE from the Post Bulletin.com…CLICK THE PIC!