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Police in Winnipeg have been seizing more replicas -- and more weapons in general -- from irresponsible owners recently and fear there may one day be an encounter where a person armed with a knockoff handgun or rifle is shot by an officer.
Police took those owners to task for causing a surge in avoidable high-priority gun calls, and urged people to be more responsible in order to reduce the number of calls and prevent a tragedy.
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We've had police officers at my house when me and my brother first started getting into Airsoft. We called them and invited them over to take a look at them and give us a true statement saying if they were okay or not. At this time, all guns were painted over black, and the orange tip was removed. There were two conditions in which we were to follow to ensure that they don't get confiscated/we don't get arrested:
1) They're never to leave our supervision (Our own rifles and our wal-marters for first-timers to play with). At no point in time are any rifles we own allowed to be in someone else's house. We can hand the rentals out for games we're attending, but we must make sure to get them back.
2) Be responsible with them. Don't walk around the front and back lawns or some shit waving it around. Common sense shit. Keep it in a case, out of reach of children, don't point it at our skinhead neighbours.
Seriously, this isn't even Grade 8 thinking.