Airsoft Guns Need Respected Constantly

By Anthony Carter

One of the most popular items amongst young boys and girls on a Christmas wish list includes airsoft guns. Airsoft guns are relatively inexpensive and can make an excellent tool for teaching a child responsibility. These guns are very good for training purposes, in order to prepare the kids to become excellent marksman for hunting or even the military or police academy.

Some people which reside in more rural areas, will use these types of guns to get rid of pests. Commonly, when a pest enters the boundaries of the yard, such as a stray cat, or when a rabbit enters the garden, these guns work well to eliminate these pests from destroying a homeowners plants or air conditioning units.

The most important thing to explain to a child about a gun, is how to put the gun on safety. Usually, there is a button that will need placed into the correct position, which ensures there will be no accidental firing of the gun. Then the child needs to know, the safety switch needs to be on at all times when the gun is not being used.

While the gun is on safe, the correct procedure of loading ammunition needs to be learned by the child. Always stress the fact that gun needs to be on the safe mode before loading, unloading, and reloading. Then explain the importance of where the barrel of the gun is, the barrel location of the gun is another important gun handling lesson.

Snakes can be eliminated by using an air soft gun also. Some of the more powerful airsoft weapons, use co2 cartridges to increase the power of the ammunition release. When these guns are used, they are almost as powerful as a small caliber actual firearm. One cannot see the ammunition leaving the barrel and these types of guns can be highly dangerous. They will penetrate a thick rubber tire at a close distance, such as ten or twenty feet.

When using the sights of a gun, the child needs to be observed rather closely, to ensure the correct eye dominance is being used. Sometimes, a child can be shooting right handed, but the left eye is dominant. This can be noticed when a child is looking completely over the gun, instead of straight down the barrel.

There has been bank robberies and hold ups stemming from the purchase of air soft guns. In some cases the replicas resemble the real gun in such a way, that policemen have been fooled into shooting a person because of the presence of a gun.

Once these rules are explained and enforced, chances are when the situation arises for the purchase of a real live firearm, the safety rules with be of second nature to the young adult which learned these rules as a child. There earlier these guidelines are instilled the safer the gun user will be later on in life. - 30320

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