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Did you know that many Airsoft, BB and Pellet guns look real enough to fool adults?
If your child asks for an Airsoft gun, a BB gun or a pellet gun, will you grant permission? These types of guns sound safe but they shoot plastic BBs that can cause injury unless proper protective gear is worn. Children shoot Airsoft guns at each other, and Airsoft games are typically friend-to-friend skirmishes. Airsoft guns look real enough to fool adults, including law enforcement officers. Used by unsupervised minors, these look-alike guns could prove fatal.
Parental Responsibilities:
- Teach your child safe gun-handling rules and make sure they use them.
- Make sure your child uses appropriate safety protective gear.
- Keep Airsoft guns locked and available only with permission.
- Provide an appropriate place to play Airsoft games.
- Supervise Airsoft games -- watch your children playing with them.
- Make sure the orange tip stays on the gun.
- Learn the local laws pertaining to Airsoft guns.
Kids' Responsibilities:
- Always point an Airsoft gun in a safe direction.
- Always keep your finger OFF the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
- Always remove the magazine and/or disconnect the battery until you are ready to use the gun.
- When playing with Airsoft guns, you and everyone around you must be wearing protective gear.
- Don't assume the orange tip protects you -- most people do not know about Airsoft and they will assume they are real guns.
- Always carry Airsoft guns inside a box or a bag.
- Use Airsoft guns only in areas where it is not prohibited by law. Do NOT use Airsoft guns in public places such as schools, parks and playgrounds.
- Make sure everyone who can see you with the Airsoft gun knows that you are playing a game and that it is an Airsoft gun.
- Respect other people's property. If a neighbor or nearby person asks you to stop playing with your Airsoft guns, immediately stop and put your guns away.
- If a law enforcement officer approaches you while you are using an Airsoft gun, immediately stop and follow his or her commands.
- Treat all Airsoft, pellet and BB guns as if they are real guns.
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