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fatty · 10-12-07, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Ya'll like Wikipedia so much that I went out and quoted it for you:

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A weapon is a tool used to injure, incapacitate, or kill an adversary.[1][2] Weapons may be used to attack and defend, and consequently also to threaten or protect. Metaphorically, anything used to damage (even psychologically) can be referred to as a weapon. A weapon can be as simple as a club or as complex as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

An airgun seems to fit the definition of weapon. Webster's seems to agree as well. I don't think that I see any bias.

Regulated in nearly all Western states, protective gear required for organized play, designed and built to be wielded against human targets... not sure what it is about them that makes them anything besides weapons. Certainly not toys. At any rate, if you pointed one at a police officer or brought it to school, I don't feel that anyone would be interested in debating semantics or lethality. Keep them on the playing fields - but out of the hands of loony Nazi kids!