Airsoft Action 05 - Jan 2012 | Page 21

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 021