High School Locks Down For Gun Threat (Fox 12 Oregon)

LONGVIEW, Wash. -- R.A. Long High School went into lockdown mode for about 40 minutes while officers investigated reports of guns in the area, school officials said.

Another thing that is not allowed during an airsoft game is to reactivate your play after you have already been eliminated. You must gain permission from a referee to rejoin the game. Rejoining a game without permission is called being a 'mummy'.

Other honor system codes include over killing your opponent. This means when a player shoots an opponent and then they continue to fire upon them. You are not allowed to repeatedly shoot your opponent. One shot is sufficient if you hit them. In addition, you can tap an opponent with the tip of your gun which is called a 'knife kill' which saves ammunition when you are at close range. A courtesy kill allows the player to surrender if you are up close to your opponent.

The Honor System of Airsoft

When you play the airsoft game there is a specific honor system everyone is expected to know and abide by. This honor system means that you must admit to being hit when you are, no playing possum, or being a mummy. There are specific things you should do when you are hit legally in the game.

A person who shoots another player is not responsible for screaming 'I got you.' It is up to the officials of the game or the player who was hit. If you are hit while you are playing airsoft then you must shout loudly that you have been hit or raise your hands and your gun and display your hit indicator lights while walking back to a safety zone. The hit indicators might be a bright flag in the daytime or at night a small flashing light.

When you play airsoft you are expected to be honest and abide by the honor system. If you are hit during play then you must admit it and leave the game or go to the safety zone and wait until you are waved to rejoin the game.

The most common game for airsoft is survival. This game is played by the last man standing wins the game. If you get hit then you are out. Many of the airsoft games eliminate a player once they are hit. However, during nighttime play or when opponents are far away it is often hard to tell if you hit your opponent. A player can usually tell if they have been hit by an airsoft pellet. However, it does occur that a player may not feel a pellet if they are running quickly, rolling on the ground, or something else. Circumstances like this are usually determined by the marshals or the referees watching the game.

Man carrying toy gun flees police (The Sacramento Bee)

A toy gun and quick feet caused a stir today after a 22-year-old man believed to be carrying a gun took off running as Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies approached him at 8 a.m. near the intersection of Watt Avenue and Auburn Boulevard.

The Basic Workings of Airsoft Guns

Spring loading airsoft guns are similar to the old fashioned six-shooter of the Old West. They must be 'cocked' in order to fire each individual shot. This means the player must pull back the slide for a pistol and pull on the grip of a rifle. The pellets are propelled through the barrel by a set of springs. By cocking the weapon, the player is activating the spring for firing. These are the easiest types of airsoft weapons to fire and use. Prices for spring loaded guns start at $2.50 and go as high as $129.95 plus tax.

Airsoft guns, however, will never be mistaken for paintball guns even by the untrained eye. Airsoft guns were manufactured to look and feel real and the models available are replicas of many of the real weapons on the market today, such as 9mm pistols and high-powered sniper rifles. As a matter of fact, some of them even come with targeting lasers. The fact that the airsoft gun looks and feels so real is what draws many people to play airsoft and purchase an airsoft gun. Airsoft guns are also more powerful that paintball guns and they have a wider range of canister gas available for powering the firing mechanism. Playing airsoft is nothing like playing paintball. Airsoft it's a lot less messy and a lot more realistic than paintball.

Electric airsoft guns - or AEGs - also use spring propulsion, but a battery is used to power the spring. The battery gives the weapon the ability to be fired as an automatic or semi-automatic weapon. They are more powerful than the spring loaded guns, but because of the automatic/semi-automatic firing features, these guns are of a higher-quality and looked at as the superior airsoft product. These weapons start at $8.00 and go as high as $699.99 plus tax.

Airsoft guns are the newest rage in the military and police simulation game world. Each one is uniquely designed with numerous parts and the more expensive models can be as complex as a real rifle or pistol. Spring action, gas, and electric are the three types of mechanisms used to fire these guns. They use 6mm or 8mm pellet ammunition which are usually made from hard plastic and 6mm paintball pellets can also be used if the player prefers. The advantage of the paintball pellets is that players know who have been shot and where when playing with paintball guns. With airsoft guns the game is played more on the honor system since there is no real way to know if someone has been hit.