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47. It is NOT a BB gun

It is an Airsoft which fires larger plastic rounds not capable of breaking the skin. I have a BB rifle type gun that will penetrate through 3/8 inch plywood. 2 different animals. The media once again shows their ignorance in equating one with the other.

I am not a supporter of the airsoft play or paintball. I bought the BB gun because we were being over run by rats. We have cats outside but they didn't seemed to be doing the job. I shot one rat and it seems that insulted Eddie and we were finding headless rats regularly. So the BB gun has been unused.

Edit to add that I am against any play war using projectile firing weapons. As a child from the city who moved out to the family ranch I frightened my grown uncle with a cap gun. When he realized that it was a toy he said never point it at anyone ever again and if I put them away (I had a matched set) he would train me in the SAFE use of a rifle. The 1st rule is that you never point at anything you don't intend to shoot and you never intend to shoot a person. 2nd it is always loaded, the only exception to this is when it is in pieces on the workbench. There were at least 10 of these rules but those 2 are the most important.