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The Council's mission is to promote the sport of Airsoft in Australia and to promote airsoft as a safe and strictly regulated alternative for Paintballers and Laser Skirmishers. The council will also endeavour to educate the public about our mission and the responsible use of airsoft devices for recreational use. Airsoft is a harmless and ultimately enjoyable alternative to paintball, which is prohibitively expensive as an "every" weekend hobby. The Council's ultimate goal is to find a compromise that government and players can agree upon.
Australian Airsoft needs you if you are interested in helping the sport gain legal status. Please browse through the various articles available here by clicking on the menu to the left. We have the information you need about airsoft laws in Australia, about airsoft itself, about collecting and airsoft practical shooting. You can read more about the Airsoft Council, who we are and our history by clicking HERE
First up, if you have time, energy and are more than just interested in waiting for updates, download our petition found here and find out how you can help petition the government. Next you may want to write your local MP, state Police Minister, your federal MP, the federal Minister for Home Affairs and the Prime Minister. The following link (click here) will take you to a very informative page detailing how you can get the attention of politicians. Feel free to use the information on this site and please be sure to direct them here and mention the AAC's current proposal (found here). You may also want to download our flyer and put it up in your community. Support Political Parties that support freedom and the Airsoft Movement!
The Airsoft Council will endeavour to gain support from all major political parties. We encourage you to seek out and support candidates from parties that value freedom and say NO! to the Nanny State. To have an effect on legislation we need to vote with our feet and actively support these parties when and where they field candidates in Federal, State and Local elections. The Australian Airsoft Council endorses the Liberal Democratic Party for these reasons. The Liberal Democrats are a young party on the right track, with policies that encourage freedom, personal responsibility and less government interference in the average Australian's personal life. You can visit the Liberal Democrats site and decide for yourself. The Liberal Democrats have not only voiced their support for Airsoft deregulation but have offered to write letters to government bureaucrats on our behalf. 
The Liberal Democratic Party The Australian Plan
It is the Australian Airsoft Council’s core assumption that airsoft in Australia has no chance unless it is an organized and regulated sport that can effectively and efficiently self governed under both current laws and any future legislation and regulations. It is the council’s opinion that this is not only possible but ultimately beneficial to airsoft as a sport generally.
There are multiple challenges facing the Airsoft Council Plans and in its quest to de-regulate airsoft devices to a point that while restricted they are attainable for the prospective competitor. Some of these problems include the lack of official recognition that airsoft competition is a genuine reason to import airsoft devices; the cost of attaining a firearms license – a paradox when one assumes prospective competitors choose the sport in part because of the lower costs involved. And probably the greatest challenge lies in the ban on military styled replicas and the automatic operation of many airsoft devices. Find out what the government thinks about airsoft here.
It is the Airsoft Councils belief that all of these challenges can be met and addressed if there is a genuine dialogue where in all parties with a stake in the outcome shape and adhere to a pre defined path of partial deregulation, with check and balances built into the system.
Currently the Airsoft Council has this proposal before government.
"Plan C"
The proposal is currently being developed. The plan revolves around established skirmish businesses importing taggers and renting them out to players. While draft one was still being put together an outline was discussed in some depth with police via telephone and we believe that the new proposal has the more realistic chance of being accepted by government and police. No one is putting a time frame on this new proposal and no one is saying that one encouraging chat with police equates to airsoft being legalised soon. But we can say that while responses to other proposals have been wholly negative the initial response to this proposal has been encouraging. Encouraging enough that this proposal will become the primary focus of the Airsoft Council's efforts for the foreseeable future.
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