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Originally Posted by Cobrajr122
Saying that we 'Support' Illegal import of anything is going a bit far. ASC has no bearing on members personal choices. The field owners and game organizers have their sets of rules, if these rules allow for only eye safe lasers to be used, then those are the rules. Are they forcing players to buy lasers? Not at all. Just because the only way to get lasers that follow the rules is to import them does not mean we support that. Its simply us allowing those who have the lasers to use them.
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Agreed. It also wasn't that long ago that many airsoft guns were being brought in via legal "grey areas". Most guys with GEN3 Night Vision at least have done the same bringing it in, those are the same guys generally using IR lasers. Fact is, it's not illegal to own here in Canada, and it's not impossible to import those items legally either. The items being used are also not stolen hardware from the military which would be completely illegal. The United States is pretty hardassed when it comes to exporting this stuff, but that's south of the border. IR lasers themselves are not illegal to import (look at all the G&P ones floating around brought in from China).
Eye safe lasers are a safety issue, only lasers classed 1 or 1M (to my knowledge) are truly eye safe. As far as I know, visible class 1M laser designators for mounting to a rifle do not exist. I'm sure if you could get one and present the paperwork showing it is a true eye safe visible laser, then hosts would maybe look into making an exception.