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Originally Posted by 2.0
A number of friends of mine, former paintballers and now airsofters, had a real rough time when they were stopped at a police checkpoint coming back from a scenario airsoft game with a load of airsoft rifles (m-16s, m-4a1 and g-36) in the trunk, and one of the dudes still had a beretta replica in the holster attached to his leg. Kinda sad that they had all their guns taken away from them and never heard from again... lost a lot of money. Should've stuck with paintball i told them.
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I would have to say your friends are foolish then. The cops never had the right to take them in the first place, airsoft guns are not illegal, and I assume they were not doing anything illegal with them (aka shooting the cops or pedestrians) which means the cops didn't have a right to take them in the first place.
yes they can stop you, check things out, make sure its not real weapons and what not. But once thats confirmed and done they have no right to confiscate them unless you are doing something illegal with them. Which means your friends should have gone down to the station, talked to the sheriff or who ever and gotten them back. And if they still refused to release them (which is highly unlikely because cops know they are not illegal), then just flat out sue. If the guns were wroth hundreds or thousands of dollars then it would make much more sense to sue for them back then to just let the cops have them and loose all that money.