<h1>The Laws Of Airsoft</h1>
<ol>
<li>If it's your first AEG, get a TM.
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<li>If you don't get a TM, when it breaks (and it will) we will laugh at
you, and hope you will cry.
</li>
<li>If you have to ask if it can be done (custom guns especially), you do
not have the skill to do it
</li>
<li>Do not ask for advice, and then proceed to do what you wanted to do in
the first place.
</li>
<li>If you're just starting airsoft, and want to be a sniper, use someone
else's rifle for a bit. If you get a sniper rifle as a first gun, it limits
what you can play. Get an AEG!
</li>
<li>If you do not have time to shim your AEG gears correctly, you will find
time to shim it again, and replace the gears and piston.
</li>
<li>If you have any post with the phrase "WHAT IS TEH BEST GUN??!!!111" or
any of it's permutations, quit airsoft immediately, if not sooner. </li>
<li>If a game consists of two kids playing in the woods, it is <b>NOT</b> a
"skirmish"! </li>
<li>Standards are NOT realistic. Airsoft is NOT realistic. You show me a kid
who gets his legs blown off from playing airsoft, properly executed air
strikes and artillery, and we'll start talking about realism. Until then,
you're a couple dudes in the woods shooting plastic BBs at each other from
fake guns. Loading 30 rounds is also NOT realistic. If you want realism,
join the army. </li>
<li>If you do not know how it goes together, have no diagram to put it back
together, and have no access to someone who can put it together if you can't
- <b>DO NOT TAKE IT APART.</b> </li>
<li>An M4 with a flashlight is NOT custom. An M4 with a boatload of crap
bolted on, with a aftermarket RIS kit and different stock, it is NOT custom.
Custom means "Made for this project" or "Not commercially available". </li>
<li>If there is "no way you missed that guy", one of three things has
happened: Either he didn't feel it, and it's an honest mistake, he is
cheating and will get his comeuppance in the order of a full hicap to the
head next time he gets hit, or you missed. Almost unilaterally it's number
one or three. </li>
<li>Those without backup guns will find a problem with their gun that can't
be fixed field expedient when they're 20 miles from nowhere on the first day
of a weekend op. </li>
<li>The guy with $2,000+ invested in gear and guns will, at some point, get
eliminated by a guy with his springer.</li>
</ol>
<h1>Pet Peeves:</h1>
<ol>
<li>Players who don't wear webgear:<br>
- because they say they can't afford it: they spent $300+ on a gun, but
can't buy $80 worth of BDU's and gear.<br>
- because they say they don't need it. *How* can it be milsim if you're not
carrying all the stuff you could possibly need to get you through a game?
</li>
<li>Anyone who counts springers as part of their airsoft gun "inventory"
</li>
<li>Random emails from people asking me to sell them
batteries/chargers/magazines/springers when I didn't have an ad up for any
of those.
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<li>People who post what they've "heard" about an airsoft related question.
Especially when they can't give a source.
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<li>Unrealistic modifications to guns (ie, P90's with M203's, MP5 "sniper"
carbines, etc.)
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<li>Any use of the term "l33t" or "l337" to describe a team or gun. </li>
<li>People who think $400 is a lot of money to drop on one gun. </li>
<li>People who think that since they've spent a "ton" of money on a gun
that:<br>
- it makes them a better person than the average player <br>
- it makes them a better player than the guy with a stock/near-stock gun <br>
- the gun should be indestructible, or immune to stoppages </li>
<li>In that same vein: people who think that because they've blown a lot of
money on airsoft that they're due a certain amount of respect or deference
from others. Your wallet does not make you a respectable person. </li>
<li>People who refuse to READ... and then COMMENT </li>
<li>People who feel the need to add posts saying "Yeah, that's a good idea"
or "what he said is right" or otherwise confirming an already confirmed
factoid. </li>
<li>Baseball hats, t-shirts, sneakers or other civilian clothing on the game
field </li>
<li>People with radios with no radio discipline.</li>
<li>Any "support weapon" with a magazine capacity less than 600 rounds.
Clamping mags together does not count. </li>
<li>People who have to tell you in excruciating detail how they saw you and
shot you, in order to get some sort of recognition or something. Yeah, I was
there, I know how I got hit as a result. Congrats on your "kill", it was a
nice shot. Now move on. </li>
<li>People who think they're snipers just because they have an upgraded gun
with a scope.</li>
</ol>
BTW, I did not make these up. They are from jballou on ASP. [
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