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Originally Posted by KrashRider
Rampart used to sell eye safe IR Class I, now they say civilian visible version only. Most games in Ontario are saying now "No visible laser". So if the one store in Canada that was selling eye safe Class I no longer says they can sell them to civilians. That leaves no legal option to obtain an eye safe Class I in Canada. Thereby directing people to buy illegally obtained Class I lasers as they are the only ones currently allowed. So there is going to have to be a legally obtainable version that is eye safe visible that the airsoft community is going to allow. Some version that is legally obtainable here in Canada rather than promoting illegal import of ITAR controlled Class I. Almost the same with NVG's, no one in Canada sells Gen3 to civilians but at least you can find stores that sell Gen1 or 2. The lasers there is no one selling any version of eye safe now that Rampart has stopped. There needs to be a legal option otherwise it supports illegal imported versions only.
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Saying that we 'Support' Illegal import of anything is going a bit far. ASC has no bearing on members personal choices. The field owners and game organizers have their sets of rules, if these rules allow for only eye safe lasers to be used, then those are the rules. Are they forcing players to buy lasers? Not at all. Just because the only way to get lasers that follow the rules is to import them does not mean we support that. Its simply us allowing those who have the lasers to use them.