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YOU GUYS wanted ’em in a different way, so here’s a LIST of the AIR STUPIDS low-lights we normally wouldn’t highlight, all in one convinient, easy-to-share post! Just CLICK THE PICS!
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“…Yes, it is a highlight video of sorts, but not just of the two day event that took place in Randal Park Mall in 2014. It is a look past into the history of the site from the early days of motor racing, thunder of thoroughbreds, to the eventual commercialization and economic crash of the Randal Park Mall. The video is a great production of how different sites get repurposed into dynamic AOs for milsim events…”
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I think John Lu and Thumpy will both give “finder’s fees” to MERLIN for pushing this one out in his news feed…because this video series HAS TO BE SEEN in all its glory! This IS what the Lion Claws “idea” is all about…and with the struggles behind-the-scenes to make it happen, its a true milestone in the history of milsim in the USA! Click the pic to read all of Merlin’s take… The link to the video series is HERE!
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"Nine Tuscarawas County students were suspended for bringing airsoft guns to school and firing them at fellow classmates...."
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Nice..."having fun." And sports team members. What a bunch of AIR STUPID they just walked themselves in to....VIDEO at the link doesn't add much....
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"Earlier this month, headlines screamed the news that Ohio Rep. Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) had introduced a bill that seeks to ban "any BB gun or gun replica that a 'reasonable person' would confuse with a real firearm....""
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But, did reporters read the bills? NO! And it is up to gun-rights organizations like the BFA - nice! - to dive into the details. We will add a few airsoft-specific comments to the excellent article you will read: The chances of any of these bills passing is minute, but Airsoft is again thrown under-the-bus by Paintball and Air Guns...or, its the old divide-and-conquer by lawmakers in Ohio, as it was in California. AND, notice the wording carefully...its almost identical in definitions and phrasing to Cali's SB199...wonder if plagiarizing legislation state to state is a no-no amongst anti-gunner law "breakers." GREAT VIDEO AT THE END, TOO....pass this one on to your battle buddies as one to get everyone up to speed!
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"Educators, law enforcement take part in harrowing simulations at Chillicothe High School..."
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GREAT COVERAGE, with PHOTS and VIDEO on recent training for an "active shooter" incident in Ohio!....want to see how it CAN be done, effectively...and how the odds can favor intended targets (never "victims," if you use A.L.I.C.E. techniques, as these people are!) WATCH AND SHARE!
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Job Opening at new Pyramyd Air retail store Retail Stores.
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PLEASE Read, SHARE and COMMENT at Thumpy's News...and on all our social channels.
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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...."
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“Jennifer Ewing said she was riding down Summit Street near E. 7th Avenue when she saw something frightening. “I look over and I see about eight guys standing and pointing a gun at me,” she said. Ewing says the paintball gun resembled a real firearm. She’s glad it wasn’t. “When one is pointed at you, it looks real,” she said. (emphasis added-T)
Ewing was injured just one week after police say 20-year-old Thomas Woodruff fired a paintball gun in southeast Columbus, striking a man in the eye. That man lost his vision and Woodruff was charged with felonious assault…..”
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BUT, NO…they don’t need to be regulated as a dangerous big-bad-mean old airsoft guns, BB gun, or REAL Pew Pew guns are…we have “markers”….hoooBoyeeeee! CLICK THE PIC to see the VIDEO and the whole story
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“Family and friends of Tamir Rice, 12, struggle with their loss five months after a Cleveland police officer fatally shot the boy as he played with a toy gun in a park….”
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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
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“…When officers saw the suspect walking away in the direction of the basketball courts, they ordered him onto the ground. It was then that they saw he had a BB gun with the red tip removed. “I was kind of hoping he didn’t pull nothing out, just in case a police officer would’ve thought it was an actual gun,” Hernandez said….”
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This was NOT an airsoft gun, but a BB pistol which is NOT REQUIRED to have an orange tip…not that it matters in Cleveland, home of the latest high-profile officer-involved shooting of a kid in a park with a gun….sheesh…. We added the emphasis….
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"...Newly introduced legislation in the Ohio House would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or public display of toy guns designed to look like the real thing...." ""It's either a gun or it's not," (Democratic state Rep. Bill) Patmon said in an interview...."
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Here is the coverage of Ohio's House Bill 119...the latest attempt to regulate "toy guns." Only, just like PAINTBALL AND BB/PELLET GUNS...AIRSOFT ARE NOT TOYS, and should never be classified with toys!
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Warzone Paintgames is considering opening a Airsoft Open Play night. Looking to see how many people would be interested in a regular place to play. Post here and give us your thoughts!
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Video: Teen with Airsoft gun safely disarmedPolice NewsBy PoliceOne Staff JOHNSTOWN, Ohio — Johnstown police are defending an officer who told a teen to drop a weapon that turned out to be an Airsoft gun.
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Settlement announced involving the playground shooting of Tamir Rice...
THUMPY's coverage via the SCOOP.IT Site: LINK HERE
http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2016/04/city_of_cleveland_to_pay_6_mil.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/25/us/tamir-rice-settlement/