North County Leader

FingalAirsoft

Trash talk on airsoft in this weeks north county leader:(:(:(

http://www.northcountyleader.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=726:concern-over-purchase-of-imitation-firearms&catid=1:latest-news


Bloody TD's they'd say anything to get their face in the paper:rolleyes:

Damo 2k9

"I don’t want any person to come to harm at the hands of these products which do have the potential to cause serious injury or death."
What a load of bull****! :mad:

gerrowadat

So he's demanding a bunch of stuff that's already happening or has happened. Yay.

FingalAirsoft

gerrowadat wrote: »

So he's demanding a bunch of stuff that's already happening or has happened. Yay.

Yep he's a bit late...lol

deco nate

comparing airsoft to headshops,he is off his head!!
doesnt he know about the new laws that are
comin in place,metinks the iaa should get on to him
and have a chat,really bad comparing airsoft with
headsoft.

gerrowadat

deco nate wrote: »

comparing airsoft to headshops,he is off his head!!
doesnt he know about the new laws that are
comin in place,metinks the iaa should get on to him
and have a chat,really bad comparing airsoft with
headsoft.

Give him a bell if he's your local TD, there's an election coming up like it or not.

deco nate

belive me i would,if i lived in his area.

captaindanwaldo

Is it just me or does it appear like hes encouraging people to break the new law on personal importation because he considers it safer? Its all so...backwards!

Daz1214

The website of one particular firm states that it ‘is legal in the Republic of Ireland to collect, possess and regularly use’ these items

hes obviously completely clueless to the law as well

desertstorm

Dear Mr.Kennedy,

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Dismissive-****-Motion/108418282179?ref=ts

regards

The_ChiefDUB

Just wrote him an email there suggesting that he should have spoken to the IAA before he went off looking for column inches with uneducated scare mongering.

JonnyTwoCombs

Uneducated buffoon! :eek: Fianna Fáil, Fianna FAIL more like! :D

captaindanwaldo

JonnyTwoCombs wrote: »

Uneducated buffoon! :eek: Fianna Fáil, Fianna FAIL more like! :D

Sir, I salute you!!

Sod'o swords

It's ok, just go on his website and send a strongly worded email.
Oh wait

michaelkennedy.ie wrote:

If you see this page it means that Apache Domain Service for this domain is locked, or there's no such Apache Domain Service registered in Parallels Operations Automation.

fayer

gerrowadat wrote: »

So he's demanding a bunch of stuff that's already happening or has happened. Yay.

This proves the standard of our TD's. Its embarrassing to have idiots in office like this that dont even know what law their own party has brought in.

thermo

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,idiot,,,,,,,,,,,, elections are coming, our politicians are a joke, oh look a distraction!

Shiva

I wonder what his thoughts are on the upcoming Divorce Referendum ?

thermo

i wonder what his thoughts are on assisting the country in getting out of the recession, instead of spending his time talking this sh1t!

MerryDespot

FFS!!!!!

Seriously, this is the sort of supremely stupid crap that people churn out as a sad attempt to get some column inches. And look ... it worked!
The least I'd expect from my TD would be to:
1. Get his facts right
2. Sound out both sides of the argument (i.e. talk to some bloody airsofters not just the average NIMBY muppets who have nothing better to do than complain to make their sad little lives feel a little better)
3. Perhaps not waste his/her time on this pointless and alarmist drivel when there are, as Thermo and others pointed out, real problems that need to be dealt with. Aside from the fecking hole we've dug ourselves into with the finances (or lack thereof) in this country - what about going after the countless armed criminals instead of some lads engaging a perfectly legit sport!!!

I'm sorry, as serious as this topic is, I need to invoke the facepalm to calm myself the hell down:

bullets

Hopefully the IAA will provide some response to his comments.

One thing I have noticed though is that Head Shops tend
to stock overpriced ****e airsoft gear! Drugs n guns and all that gangsta rappa sh1tttte seems to go hand in hand.

The head shops of late seem to even start to paint orange tips on cheap airsoft gear or do some two-toneing.

There was 3 head shops in Limerick in total.
2 owned by same owner and one that was like a Mmmad store.

The MMmaad store closed down, but the 2 other were kept open selling bongs, elvis mirror, fluffy pink steering wheel covers, loads of bathsalts and fish food that could be snorted to make you high as well as cheap crap overpriced airsoft guns and some illegal Crossbow pistols that were defo over the ole 1j. The types that went in there to shop were scumbags, looser stoners and under age kids.

While I dont give a damn what people willfully smoke/take
dont like seeing airsoft gear (regardless of quality) being sold willy nilly in places like this. It gives off the wrong vibe,
signal to joe soap public.

~B

Masada

The north county who?????

in fairness lads, were only giving thier poxy little failure of a paper some google results by even bothering to get offended on here, let alone the fool they have talking in it.

MerryDespot

Fair point Masada - but aren't a few of the sites within the 'catchment' of that paper? But yeah, waste of time that could be better spent doing something else.

*DOBBY*

I have sent an email to Michael Kennedy, polite but very direct;).
Will let you know if I hear back.
Ah politicians.....

roryk1

im sorry to say that this man is my areas td some1 is voting sinn feinn nxt time around:D

judas1369

Yet another fine example of the FF smoke and mirrors show. Just about anything these days that serves as a distraction these days is fair game.
I do live in this constituency and shall be contacting his office re his ill informed comments and shall be pointing out that I am a registered voter and this sort of knee jerk off the cuff performance will only serve in my vote going elsewhere. If you do share your opinions on the subject with his office and are registered to vote, be sure to point this out as no politician will be too keen on alienating potential votes particularly if they represent FF.

Hivemind187

roryk1 wrote: »

im sorry to say that this man is my areas td some1 is voting sinn feinn nxt time around:D

Would this be the same Sinn Fein who two years ago said they were

"... concerned about the proliferation of these obviously dangerous imitation weapons in the community."

... I remember we all had a chuckle at the irony of that one. :rolleyes:

SpookyBastard

Hivemind187 wrote: »

Would this be the same Sinn Fein who two years ago said they were

"... concerned about the proliferation of these obviously dangerous imitation weapons in the community."

... I remember we all had a chuckle at the irony of that one. :rolleyes:

Hehe. Had forgotten bout that. Still amusing

kdouglas

Hivemind187 wrote: »

"... concerned about the proliferation of these obviously dangerous imitation weapons in the community."

in your best Gerry Adams-style accent?

Masada

kdouglas wrote: »

in your best Gerry Adams-style accent?

Funny thing is, I automatically read that in a Jarrrrayy Aaa'dums accent and all.,

Stonewolf

This is what happens when the people in the legislatures main qualification is promising to build a motorway to the back end of nowhere.

evilrobotshane

What's the chances he's not as ill-informed as he's making himself out to be, and once the retailer restrictions get rolled out he'll be parading his triumph at clamping down on the dangerous stuff he was warning about a few months ago, without mentioning that he knew it was coming anyway?