Posted on 03/12/2010 3:26:07 AM PST by Man50D
A gun rights organization has launched a Freedom of Information request following a decision by federal Customs and Border Protection agents to seize a shipment of toy pellet guns and a determination by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that they could be converted into machine guns so they must be destroyed.
Government agencies have explained that the Airsoft toys, made of a soft pot metal and lacking a firing mechanism, easily could be converted into a true weapon capable of automatic fire.
"Our firearms technology branch classified this as a machine gun," BATFE Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said in a report assembled by Gun Owners of America. "With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun."
Gun Owners spokesman Erich Pratt told WND today his organization has launched a FOIA demand for information to find out on what basis the government reached that conclusion.
The case stems from the confiscation just weeks ago of the shipment of several dozen of the plastic pellet-firing Airsoft toys from Brad Martin and his son, Ben, in Cornelius, Ore.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
More proof we are paying salaries to useless and unneeded Federal drones. Who have to dream up make work jobs for themselves because online poker and porn gets real boring after a while. Most of these clowns spend their days planning their lunch hour, circling their vacation days on the calendar, b!tching with their co-workers about how underpaid they are
Goes for a lot of state drones as well.
Get ready...if they’re justifying seizing the toys...
“Our firearms technology branch classified this as a machine gun,”
Then that branch must be populated by idiots.
A toy gun .. “Made of Pot Metal” that could be made into an automatic weapon?
Now THAT is something I’d Love to see.
Better yet ,, I want to see the poor AssHat that would ‘try’ to fire that “Converted Automatic”!
Took the words right out of my mouth. The first guy to pull that trigger is going to set a whole new standard for the term ‘Epic Fail’.
I’m wondering if the Feds had this guy in mind when they made their decision:
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/02/sledding_fail_clarkston_man_ho.html
I mean, he *does* sound like the kind of guy who would be up for trying to put live rounds through an Airsoft rifle. :-)
JACK BOOTED BUFFOONS!!!!
we are paying for this folks.
Yes. BATF, so not surprising.
Well it COULD be converted to an automatic weapon. Just replace all the parts with real machine gun parts and there ya go!
These boneheads just don’t want to admit they screwed up which is even more dangerous.
I don't see how anyone who is a supporter of the 2nd Amendment can vote for a Democrat. This is not 1960. The Democrats of today are left wing EXTREMISTS hell bent on radically changing this country and dragging it to left. THERE IS NO MIDDLE-GROUND. And, the Dems are moving in "lock step"; When it comes to voting on legislation. There are no independent, 1960 Dems. Dems do what the Dem leadership tells them.
Strategically, in the macro view,, there can be no bi-partisanship (i.e. "bi-partisanship", to a Dems is only a minor change to a left-wing bill or it is used as a "talking point" to criticize Republicans.)
Okay, folks, here’s how it could be done.
1. Get a real lower receiver.
2. Get a real upper receiver.
3. Get a real barrel.
4. Install a real gas system.
5. Install a real trigger group.
Use the rails and flip-up sites that came with the toy. They’ll last for about 25 rounds before they’ll fail.
Of course, you’ll have to fill out all the paperwork to legally buy the lower receiver.
Bulletin: Federal agents have been dispatched to seize truckloads of water pic toothbrushes, impulse lawn sprinklers, popcorn poppers, and automatic nail guns recently classified as “machine guns.” All of these devices are capable of automatically projecting objects at speed in a rapid fashion. Gummint investigators are examining other devices such as paint sprayers, air compressors, ice dispensers, and motorized saws in hopes of reclassifying them as machine guns.
Special agent Kelvin Crenshaw is an idiot.
“I don’t see how anyone who is a supporter of the 2nd Amendment can vote for a Democrat.”
Because they don’t realize the party has changed and won’t admit they might be wrong. They also won’t admit the are after our guns.
If you've ever seen an "80% complete" AR lower receiver (sold w/o serial number, no 4473 needed, etc...), then you can see why this toy has F-Troop so stirred-up. That lower is much closer to 100% functional than they would like.
I'm wondering how many of these things were sold before BATF caught on.
1. Get a real lower receiver.
2. Get a real upper receiver.
3. Get a real barrel.
4. Install a real gas system.
5. Install a real trigger group.
Use the rails and flip-up sites that came with the toy. They’ll last for about 25 rounds before they’ll fail.
Of course, you’ll have to fill out all the paperwork to legally buy the lower receiver.
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