Public Safety committee  Yes, I would say that's probably the reason. That's why I think the two-tiered approach is probably the most effective as a good compromise.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  That's where we want to be able to adopt a standardized waiver, if you will, that has to be signed at point of sale by users, and that would be standardized across the industry, so everyone is made aware of, at point of sale, what they are required to do to own such a device. Bei

Public Safety committee  It depends how far you're talking about when it comes to a licence. If you're talking about a full PAL, that might be a bit of overkill for a BB gun. For licensing, what I think would be more appropriate would be something like the two-tier model that's used in the U.K., where yo

Public Safety committee  I'm not sure I can comment on whether the bill was intended to target the airsoft industry in particular. I really don't have any way of knowing that. There definitely is a lot of grey zone as far as what looks exactly like a real firearm. It is very difficult to draw a line ther

Public Safety committee  That is definitely problematic. The only way to really go from this is to.... If we're going to add more regulation for airsoft, we have to come at it with a more comprehensive package that acknowledges what airsoft is, and then we go from there to implicate some of the regulatio

Public Safety committee  I'm not really sure what you're proposing here. If we're talking about making, let's say, airsoft guns look nothing like a real firearm, then I'm not really sure how you would accomplish that. There's a saying that “form follows function”. If you're trying to design a device tha

Public Safety committee  Yes. The way that system works is it ensures that traditional airsoft guns are available only to those who are active in the community, who have gone through education. They know what they are supposed to do with them and how to safely own them. It ensures that people who have no

Public Safety committee  To have them all be brightly coloured.

Public Safety committee  That definitely poses a bit of a problem for players in airsoft. First, I don't think they're the ones who are going to be walking down the street in public with them. They know the rules, and they're engaged in the sport. Also, when playing a game like that in a field, having

Public Safety committee  I would say no. In all the years I've owned a playing facility, I've seen a broken ankle and a broken wrist. That was from tripping over logs running around in the forest. It is a non-contact sport. It's mandatory to wear a lot of protective equipment. It's definitely very safe

Public Safety committee  I would say it would be in the hundreds of thousands. The Airsoft Canada forum, which is one of the most popular forums that players join to talk about airsoft and that kind of thing, currently has 380,000 members right now, I believe. Of course, there are a lot of people who are

Public Safety committee  I would agree with that.

Public Safety committee  Yes, that would be correct. The way it's written is basically that anything that looks like a gun and shoots a projectile becomes prohibited, so, absolutely, that affects more traditional pellet guns or your Red Ryder BB gun. That kind of thing is affected, absolutely, so we have

Public Safety committee  Yes, that is pretty accurate for any rifle. I would say approximately 90% of the market is electrically powered.