Large Chinese Airsoft Seizure

[Nox]

And what about shitbags like myself that can't afford to go out and buy the uber-kewl, top o the line, high dollar guns, but still takes the sport responsibly and maturely?
If this is going to turn into some elitist 'shazaam you lowbies' trend, I'll hang my shit up right now.

[Variable]

We still love you Nox.

[Pacman]

The kids can go back to shooting each other with real BB guns, throwing rocks and wacking each other with 2x 4's like they did when I was a kid. My generation had lead based paints to blame not sure the current excuse is

[Falcon7]

Just because somebody doesn't have a butt ton of cash laying around doesn't mean they are an idiot n00b.

[Pacman]

And what about shitbags like myself that can't afford to go out and buy the uber-kewl, top o the line, high dollar guns, but still takes the sport responsibly and maturely?
If this is going to turn into some elitist 'f**k you lowbies' trend, I'll hang my shit up right now.

Over thirty mean you can rock a Cyma as still be hot shit

[Catch22]

Nooooo. I like my China clones. I don't wanna go back to paying $300+ for a plastic AEG, that shoot 260 out of the box.

[Matt]

Who's bottom line does this effect? Which of the officially licensed companies importing guns and selling them in the US get them from China?

[FishSlapRepublic]

I just hope they don't go after real sword as I have yet to get my type 97.

[Nec]

It doesn't bother me. I like my guns made in HK, Taiwan or Japan.

+1

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[Aeacus]

I wasn't trying to be elitist. I was referring to those who don't play responsibly and maturely. Those that play in a city park, do stupid shit like shoot cars that drive by, or brandish it and get the cops involved, even make the news and hurt our sport. Teenagers don't make a lot of money, does that not make sense? I'm sorry that you flip burgers, it's not my fault you made that choice either.

[Bigfoot]

Just because somebody doesn't have a butt ton of cash laying around doesn't mean they are an idiot n00b.

Yes, but idiot noobs usually don't have a lot of cash lying around.

You see where the snowball starts to build up?

[Prophet]

I just hope they don't go after real sword as I have yet to get my type 97.

Real Sword's guns are made with the approval of the Chinese government.

[Bad Karma]

My heart bleeds for all the people who won't be able to buy these cheap pieces of Chinese junk.

Seriously, though: Maslow's hierarchy of needs. If you're so financially destitute that you're going to phony pony when you can no longer buy your $100 garbage guns, maybe you need to re-evaluate your interest and investment in the hobby. Airsoft is a niche market and, like any such hobby, participation is usually prohibitively expensive. I understand that correlation does not equal causation, and this is based strictly on my own anecdotal evidence, but it seems like with the influx of unreliable, poor-quality Chinese guns came an influx of unreliable, poor-quality players.

Higher prices act as filter to separate those who are genuinely interested in becoming airsofters from the irresponsible denigrates. It's far from perfect, and it's far from fair, but it does work.

[Catch22]

Hahaha $100 dollar garbage guns. Last time I checked all mine were working fine. While your expensive AEG's are a pile of broke dicks. hahaha

Edit: Also there have always been tards in airsoft. Even when the replicas were more expensive.

[Bad Karma]

FWIW, all of my CA and KWA guns operate seamlessly at the moment. The only gun that doesn't work at all is my piece of shit chinaman Well sniper rifle, the one I won at...CEIV? The failures of my guns are less a reflection on their quality than how I treat them. Pretty sure I once used the collapsible stock of my AK47-s as a pick-axe to climb a clay hill. Needless to say, the gun didn't like that very much.

EDIT: Even if every AEG cost $1000, it still wouldn't filter out all the garbage. Of course there are going to be people who have both money and are still retarded. In the last two years or so, the numbers have definitely shifted in terms of the quality/not-quality player ratio. Whether that's a reflection of the average price of guns going down is up for debate, as I initially stated, but you can't deny the trend doesn't exist.