Quote Originally Posted by Fred G. View Post
....to a gun dealer who was deactivating and selling them.
What a**hole was doing that? Shame on the "collectors" who support this sort of thing! And shame on IMA for selling these rifles to deactivators! Any statement from IMA in defense of this policy? Why wasn't the whole lot sold to real collectors and shooters where they would not be mutilated?

If we can turn up heat on those who traffic in deacts---by which I mean making them feel unwelcome in the gun community and NOT supporting them---then maybe this sort of thing will stop. If these fake collectors want deacts, they need to petition Airsoft to make them up some die-cast toys they can hang on the wall or pull out to shoot bad guys on the TV set.

Sorry for the rant, but this sort of thing NEEDS to become disreputable. If the gun community doesn't make an effort on this, no one else will care.