So, Halloween's coming up
 

Hello Airsoft Canada,

I'm thinking, Halloween's coming up and I don't have a costume, but my friends and I do have some tactical gear. I have seen half a dozen people at our school do "tactical" load outs last year, including some guy wearing a full gillie suit.

What do you think about wearing tactical gear to school (without any weapons)? It abides with our school dress code and there isn't any legal problems with it, as far as I know. The closest thing we may be infringing upon would be impersonating a police officer, but we don't wear any insignia or POLICE labels. (we could say we are impersonating a team from x movie or game)

Just to clarify: By tactical gear I mean:
-different BDU (not CADPAT) shirt and pants
-Regular Hiking shoes
-plate carrier (with chocolate bars in place of magazines)
-plain o'l mechanix gloves

We are not going to bring or wear any:
-mask
-goggles
-holster
-magazine
-military unit or insignia patches
-ranks
-airsoft guns (including clearsoft, cansoft or neon colored)
-anything that can be seen as a weapon, ie rubber knife, grenades.

I am also thinking about wearing a helmet or patrol cap, but I'm afraid it will draw too much negative attention.

What do you guys think? I think gear is just gear, wearing fabric isin't be illegal just because is 1000d cordura or printed with camo. Still, I'm gonna ask the Airsoft community here to be safe, given the current political situation I don't want to be the one that gets Airsoft banned (like Tim from Airsoft GI always says). So,do you think it should be fine for us?

When in doubt, don't do it. I'd say do it at someone's party, but not school.. definitely not school.

Personally I wouldn't. With schools and teachers these days it wouldn't be worth it. Party at a friends place however I see nothing wrong with that.

Ask your school....

True, I really should of thought of that first haha

It's halloween, girls will be dressed like sluts and nothing will be said. Personally I'd go for it. No weapons, no problems.

Can't kids these days think of something original? Something that will get you laid other than "oh some kid who plays too much CoD".

I can think of so many other costumes than something tactical from "CoD" or whatever.

What about Ryu from Street Fighter? Batman? Ghostrider? Iron Man? Scarface? Robin Hood? Dracula? Optimus Prime? Bumble Bee?

For girls, just add the word sexy to any occupation or noun and it's all good; sexy firewoman, sexy police officer, sexy cat, sexy nurse, sexy nun, sexy detective, etc.

This year though, I'm going as a "sexy cowboy" (like Jeff Winger in Community).

tl;dr, If you want to get laid maybe think of something else that's unique and original. Girls will be all over you then.

This year im gonna be a tetris piece! :D

This year I will be a nerd stays at home surfing the internet… Oh wait…

Well, at least that will be couple's Halloween costumes for me and my girlfriend.

I remember back in the day when I was in either grade 2 or 3, and it was cool to put a vest on with a sheriff's badge and wear a holster with a black and brown cap gun or squirt gun. then your best friend wore his mom's best combination of stuff to look like an Indian with a plastic axe or mini bow and arrow or all black with a mask and a full black sack...

It's not a costume if it's something you regularly do. This includes sports gear, airsoft, and especially work uniforms.

Really, has it come this far that kids are scared to dress up in an army costume for Halloween? If that's what you want to go as, then do it. As long as you're not bringing in a weapon with it I don't see the issue. My son has gone as an army guy 2x and now my daughter wants to be one this year. If either of them are/would ever sent home because of that I'd raise bloody hell with not only the principal, but also the superintendent.

In college I went dressed up in my complete paintball gear, had my mask tied to my waist though. Got several comments on it being unique lmao

I remember back in the days in high school at Halloween, I once dressed up in a Graffiti-like pattern; Paint overall, my painting mask, 3-4 Montana paint cans (still full haha), my personnal cap with my my tag name (Aper), big-ass chrome headphones and latex gloves.

I came across this police car when I was walking to my bus stop from school; checked my papers / ID card and carried on.

A friend of mine went as a ww2 german soldier (Down to the patches...) and was able to get away with it.

Do it,

#yolo.

#yoloswag360noscopecallofduty420forjesus

I agree with the above: ask your school, and/or just forget it.

Cardboard and duct tape are your friends :) I remember helping a roomie in university make a dalek costume in about 2 hours with just cardboard, duct tape, tinfoil, and a whack of those chocolate gold coins....jerk got attention all night :)

Your friendly neighborhood Value Village is a source of GREAT costume materials on the cheap! For $20 I found a black hoodie, cape, pants, a plastic sythe, and a small plastic skeleton. I went as the grim reaper; with the skeleton over my shoulder and a small sign saying "you're next Bieber!"

That's pretty sad considering. But then again, people go as Satan, and no one seems to care.

I agree with, "no weapons, no problem". There's nothing inappropriate or offensive about the military, and anyone who tells you different is a communist, ...or a hippie.

my kids schools outlawed costumes .... now its black and orange day, soon fallowed with red and green winter break
farce when did dressing up scary become so evil. lol

That's why as a nation we have to stop making decisions based off of people feelings. lol

I heard rumors about this... can't believe it actually happened. If my kid wanted to dress up I'd let them and spend the day at school with them. Parents need to start telling schools to fuck off about stupid shit like this.

It's not the schools who start this shit, it's certain demographics of parents; trust me.

fuck it,...
be original.
I dressed up as a hooker one year in my girlfriends sister's shit (pics are fucking hilarious)
I had stitches and a black eye from a puck 3 days prior.

I ended up meeting every girl in the bar and had a blast!

bar =/= school. However OP would probably have less of a hassle if he did dress up as a hooker instead of a soldier.

I know this is only a costume and there is not going to be a gun

but with the recent school shooting it seems in bad taste.

that being said if you do it and you get in trouble make sure your parents make a big enough fuss about it to get on the evening news

just my opinioin

Bright Idea Fairy.
I offer up a job (not really) in policy and strategic studies if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

this.


it's the crusaders for everyone else... MY GOD, I DON'T TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS, BUT SOMEONE ELSE WHO HASN'T SAID A DAMN WORD MIGHT, WE SHOULD BAN IT.

You could have done this 10 years ago. Today probably not.

Fuck I'm getting too old...

Full miltary outfit and chest rig does not look like a costume. Going as batman or spiderman is a costume.

I hope if you do decide to go miltary you will leave the pistol holster off and no magazines in the pouches.

And even if you clear it with the school which I doubt you will, neighbours in the surrounding house could still call the police. You may want to visit all the houses along your route to school and let them know also.

I thought the real point of Halloween was to disguise as something you WOULD LIKE to be, but CANNOT be in real life/rest of the year.

I'd love to be a hitman/contractor, but hey, for obvious reasons I cannot be. So that's what I'll run this year. Full suit, "subtle" body armor that isn't subtle for the point of the costume, syringes, tie-wrap restrains.

No, I will not run a pistol. But I damn wish I could.

You are 18+. If you think a military loadout is a halloween disguise, while there are hundreds other more harmless looking costumes, your choice.

Don't forget the lower skull mesh with your helmet, the public will really like that.

They do sell military-themed disguises at disguises shops for children.

I am not the one disguising myself as a soldier. If someone wants to play soldier, it should not be different than playing a firefighter, batman or a whore.

And like you said, my choice. *Your* opinion shouldn't affect what is a disguise.

The school and other massacres in the news were not by the killer wearing a firefighter, batman or whore costume with an assault weapon.

Society has changed, so those soldier costumes are no longer accepted. Just use common sense.

Agent 47 or what?

Damn.... now I kind of want to do an Altair or Ezio outfit....

dude, that's pretty cool. especially the way he walks/waddles.

Just simply put on zombie mask/make-up, add some fake blood and have your friends throw flour at you - then you have a nice halloween costume.

I'll admit it, this is awesome.

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Oh man, this wins so many internet wins. I've seem ghillie suits on halloween, but damn, thats...

I'd give this a 9/10 speed per drag! (sorry that made no sense)

I thought I made it pretty clear that I will be bringing no mags or holsters.

ha-ha
 

I was able to get away with costume... Well it is my regular jeans except boots :p

Not much of a costume as I see people in full BDU's downtown all the time, then again it is downtown and I do work near CAMH.


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