Because anime fans are a bunch of immature brats who don't know how to behave in public.

>>1696760

This

Comic cons tend to be a lot more mature than your average anime con.

Last year at AX, my watergun (which falls under the rules) was rejected because it of its color.

It wasn't black, but it was dark green with CAMO patterns painted all over it with other shades of green painted all over it. OMFG, I remember that moment when the two dorky asian girls that were at the peacebonding booth said "no", that I wanted to smash it over there heads El Kabong style!

skip the con. if you want to use realistic weapons without hassle, do a private photoshoot in the right location.

I've recently started cosplaying some characters that require guns, and this is a constant source of paranoia for me. Sure, it's okay at places like D*C, but that's only one con out of the year (plus, these are vidya costumes, and D*C's not really the place for that).

Hell, I had a gun made out of freakin' PVC AND WOOD confiscated at an anime con because "it looked too real." And that con didn't even offer peace-bonding as an option, a random security guy came up to me. Bitchy attitude, too. Killed the rest of the con for me.

Con organizer here, how about do us a test? Pull out the weapon in front uniform officers and if they don't take you down within 20 seconds or arrest you we'll let you into the con with your gun. Sound fair?

How about we don't even risk it? If you're butthurt, go elsewhere. We don't need scared parents screaming that we're some Columbine Convention so we might as well just ban them. If you want to show off your stuff, go to a gun show in cosplay.

I've never had to go through the peacebonding process since I don't have weapon style props. Do the people actually know what they're doing, is this a position that typically attracts power trippers? Surely there are some anime cons out there that get it right...

>>1696831
Probably the bigger Cons like AX and Otakon?

You know the cute little pew pew pew cowboy guns little boys had in the 1950s?

If you make them go click click click, and I'm talking about about without the pop caps, you can get banned.

>>1696831
Anime Boston's was pretty painless. I had some very realistic looking guns (metal, with moving parts, but completely non-firing), and I e-mailed the head of security prior to the con with the link to the store where I bought my guns (so he'd have specifics), to be extra sure. He okay'd them, and I printed the e-mail out just in case.

Got to the con, he looked them over for a sec, put orange ties on them, and I was on my way.

Though at that con, you have to be very careful NOT to go running around outside the convention center with guns (you may get arrested, it happened with some kids last year). But inside the con center, as long as you're not causing trouble and have an orange tip, you're good.

>>1696830
Gee, you sound like you worked at Katsucon.

A nonremovable orange tip, an inability to fire, and no magazine in the mag well should be MORE than enough for you people. You all don't seem to understand that you are not the law, and therefore, have no power over a person who is being neither threatening or offensive. If no crime has been committed, you should have no problem.

Oh, right... you're a fat neckbeard and this is your first exposure to any real "power".

>Brandish anything in front uniform officers and if they don't take you down within 20 seconds or arrest you

No seriously, I bet I could get booked with a ball point pen and a glare.

>>1696760
This. I've brought in some VERY realistic looking props to cons, and the most I've had done was a peacebond. Don't act like a moron and the rules of the con may lighten.

>>1696830
On the other hand, confiscating something that is made out of pvc and wood is like the TSA taking away your water bottle at the airport (and actually a bit ironic since at a lot of cons you can just buy prop weapons at the dealers booths). Con staffers should take a middle ground and just inspect and zip-tie/peacebond any questionable weapons. If someone really wanted to pull off a columbine at a con, it wouldn't be hard to do it even with the tightest restrictions.

>>1696851

I brought one of those to Comic-Con a few years back, I got caught halfway through the day by security and they politely told me to have it inspected downstairs.

I took it downstairs, showed it to the peacebonding people (which is actually security people as well) and they put a tape around it and I was on my way back to enjoying my day.

I wish anime cons would do the same.

are orange tipped no-battery or filled mag airsoft ok?

>>1696989
Depends on the con. If you're talking about Comic-Con, yeah you're fine. You'll probably get it peacebonded, but yeah you're fine.

>>1696830

you're a fucking idiot,

at Otakon 07 I walked three blocks away to a 711 past two cops with a replica AK slung over my shoulder, it's plasticness and blaze orange tip was very noticeable, what did the cops do? pointed and laughed.

no police officer is going to arrest and or shoot someone for having a god damn toy gun, and this whole "GO TO A GUNSHOW IN COSPLAY" thing is something I'd expect for an ignorant jackass, alot of cosplays just aren't good enough unless they have the character's weapon.

with family that works in the Baltimore PD, they warn officers ahead of time about the weirdos that are gonna be downtown with their guns and swords and blue hair and all that stuff, you're almost insulting the intelligence of the average police officer by saying they're gonna shoot people who have toys.

now if the gun has no orange tip that's an entirely different story.

Find out cons that allow realistic looking prop guns and wear those costumes there, then save your other costume ideas for other cons.

problem solved

>>1696756

I question the whole entire concept of peace bonding.

I had to get a god damn power ranger dagger peace bonded. someone explain to me how a zip tie stops me from hurting something with a blunt object anyway?

>>1697044
>now if the gun has no orange tip that's an entirely different story.

Note to self: Before shooting up a school, paint tip of gun orange