Good grief, my friends and I would have been in prison a long time ago... and at a very young age!
We used to have BB gun wars in the canyons around our town: we would divide up into teams, arm up suitably with our BB guns (fully loaded, and with extra “rounds” in our pockets), and construct “forts”; and then we would protect our fort and attack the opposition fort. The winner was declared when one side gave up (due to pain inflicted, lack of ammunition, or capture of all the opposition’s soldiers).
The best weapons were the single stroke/pump long guns: fastest to shoot. If someone had a multiple pump pellet gun, he could only use 2-3 pumps and only BBs, not pellets. (Didn’t have to worry about CO2 guns, as they were rare and expensive back then.)
The little BB-sized bruises you got on exposed flesh didn’t last too long... and luckily the Moms never saw them (or least never let you know she did)... Very rarely drew blood, and no one ever had their eye put out...
I agree with the level of PC ludicracy concerning BB guns.
But... Are you a parent?
I don’t expect you would be ok with your kids engaging in BB gun wars regardless of laws or PC correctness. I too was involved in a couple of “BB gun wars” as a kid. That stopped when a kid named Jason had one penetrate his arm pit and get lost in his body. Chris swore he only used one pump and it was CO2. Jason had to have surgery to find and retreive the BB. Following an apparent neighborhood parent meeting, all guns were confiscated for the summer.
We tested our BBs on sunglasses. The sunglasses didn’t break, so we wore them and had BB gun wars.
Good fun!
Welts, but hey, it was war, and there were wounds.....