But then again, the law is not clear about that. You see, under
ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES ACT (CHAPTER 13):
quote:
"arms" includes firearms, air-guns, air-pistols, automatic guns,
automatic pistols, and guns or any other kind of gun from which any
shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged" :quote
"air-guns" and "air-pistols" are totally diff from "Airsoft".
air-guns/pistols use diabolo metal pallet which can travel at the
speed of sound and is use for hunting. Airsoft is different, it use
plastic sphere shape pallet and it's power can't even penatrate
human skin. Futhermore, no parts of any Airsofts can be modified to
accommodate a real bullet. We can read up books on air-gums/pistols
and Airsofts to find out more different.
This put Airsofts under "kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or
other missile can be discharged" If we look at this line, basically
it put almost every toy guns you find in Singapore (even those you
seen at shopping centers mama shops) illegal. The law did not even
state that if the Airsofts are consider as toy or as shedual
weapons.
The only clear part is the ARMS OFFENCES ACT (CHAPTER 14), which
state that "imitation arm" means anything which has the appearance
of being an arm. So my question here is that are Airsofts just
consider as "imitation arm"? Again, any toy guns can be "imitation
arms". There is penalty for exhibiting imitation arm when
committing scheduled offence. But is there still a penalty if no
offence is committ?
So, where is the line drawn?
