SKILLS ROOM
“One of the first things I was
taught was: ‘Never point a
weapon at anyone unless you
intend to use it’”
I’ve seen someone do this in the Safe
Zone with a gas blowback. The weapon
fired and I saw the look of horror on the
chap’s face, and found myself asking: what
did you think was going to happen? The
answer is usually, “I didn’t think there was
any gas in it, so it was OK. So what you’re
”
saying is that you picked up a weapon,
pointed it at your mate for a laugh (with a
magazine in it), pulled the trigger and was
hoping it had nothing in it? It would have
taken two seconds to check if the weapon
loaded had gas in it and made it safe. What
would you have done if there had been
a round in the chamber? “Yeah but there
wasn’t! Hahaha!” Lucky hey?
I know that using an AEG is different to
a real firearm – you can’t cock it, pull the
working parts back and check that there
is nothing in the chamber. But you can on
www.airsoftactionmagazine.com
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