A city hardware store could lose up to $150,000 in revenue a year because of the proposed federal firearms legislation.
Maier Hardware manager Andrew Green explains the new rules concerning replica firearms would not allow him to sell airsoft guns and some paintball guns.
“We’d still be able to sell some of our paintball guns but all the air-soft guns we’d have to get rid of and there’s no plan of them buying them back we would just have to surrender them to the government,” points out Green.
He notes the government is saying “If it’s not a gun but it looks like a gun and doesn’t shoot the right joules of force it’s considered a prohibited device…which covers pretty much every single airsoft gun we sell with 75 percent of their paintball guns that we sell.”
The hardware store owner tells us he has about $40,000 worth of airsoft guns in his inventory right now.
