Media scanning via Google really brings in even some news that we might just have ignored. This time, Burton Mail reports this one with gun control proponents blocking a proposal to have a skirmish site at a former army barracks in Marchington. The photo in the news gives you a reminder that it's like Urban Assault with all those buildings for CQB and MOUT airsoft games. It would be great if this pushes through, especially for those near Birmingham and Nottingham areas.

In a letter to Burton Town Hallʼs head of development Tim Furnell, co-ordinator of the anti-gun group Chrissie Hall outlines the reasons for the objection.

She says: “Airsoft skirmishing is responsible for a rapid increase in the number of military-style imitation guns being introduced to the UK, and evidence suggests that airsoft guns are a growing problem in communities around the UK and abroad.

“Airsoft guns are exact replicas of modern battlefield weapons including rifles and handguns.

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