Why do some Airsoft guns have red/orange tips and some don ?
Unfortunately the laws concerning Airsoft are somewhat vague and have been interpreted differently by various people. Regardless of the law, common sense dictates that you should most definitely have an orange tip on your gun if your gun could possibly be seen by anyone who is not another Airsoft player. I can’t really even think of a situation as an example, other than if your gun were part of a costume or something. I’m not a lawyer, so my explanations are to the best of my knowledge. Legally, the guns must have an orange tip to be shipped. Although the law is somewhat ambiguous, the gun should always have an orange tip so that law enforcement can tell them apart from a real firearm. Because many people are very likely to react to it as if it were a real firearm, regardless of the orange tip or not, the WAA recommends that Airsoft guns be stored in a closed container and taken out only inside your home or at a playing field. Since the guns are always on private property where the pub
