Airsoft Guns - Safe For Kids? - I Think So

So your boy wants an airsoft gun? Your first thought, "Hell no". But let's administer this matter a imperceptible thought. Forget the BB gun you or your brother had when you were a kid. You remember, the one that gunfire outside your neighbors kitchen window. Or possibly the one that shot you in the leg and left a welt that lasted for five days. Like your son has been telling you, this is NOT a BB gun. It's an airsoft gun. It shoots a fluorescent weight plastic BB. It won't disjunction the neighbors' windows or ruin your cars paint job.

All of these thoughts ran on ice my attention when my 14 year gray-haired sonny wanted one for Christmas two senility ago. He overcame my objections. Although I still had my reservations, I relented and gave him my Visa card to computation one online. Existence that he wanted all of his gifts that year to be airsoft related, I left it up to him to spend another $100 on the site.

When I watched him agape the boxes on Christmas morning I was rather amazed. I figured the other $100 would be spent on more items of household destruction. But what I epigram was that he had ordered a protective mask and goggles. He also had bought protective gloves . Even amassed amazing was when I watched him and his friends play for the ahead time. They all owned and wore the protective items. I guess a procreation of kids raised on riding helmets and seatbelts blameless automatically wears protective gear without thinking about it.

That was over two years ago now. After hundreds of neighborhood airsoft battles involving a dozen or so kids, there has not been a single injury. Unlike football which resulted in a broken thumb or basketball in which he broke his wrist, airsoft has been a perfect safe animation for my son and his friends. Not to mention, it last of all got him off the computer and out of the house.

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