My issue with this whole issue is the BS that started this up again. Police get a call of a man who committed two cases of armed robbery in just a short period of time. The police have a description of the man and his vehicle. They find said asshole in a park. Call the SERT team and wait. Meanwhile said asshole wakes up, and exits the vehicle with a firearm. cops tell him to drop the gun, he points it at them, and the asshole gets shot. The Mayor as usual decides that this man is an unfortunate victim of the system and never would have committed such acts nor pointed the replica firearm at the cops if there was some kind of ordnance to tell him that that was illegal. Of course, this new law would have worked! Just like the armed robbery laws that he violated, along with over a dozen others. Considering I'm sure this this new law would be a minor ticketing offence, I highly doubt that it would have done that much good. He seemed fine with the long jail time associated with the robbery laws he was violating, I doubt a $400.00 ticket would do a hole lot.
Sam Adams has a history of not blaming the poor criminal and instead blaming it on some object that is harmless unless placed in the wrong hands. He tried this just last year with attempting to enact new firearms storage and reporting laws in order to curb gang violence. Being that he is also a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), a liberal anti 2A organization that is hugely supported by the Brady Campaign and other organizations like Ceasefire Oregon it does not surprise me that he is again trying to place laws on something that even remotely looks like a gun.
As DJ pointed out, there are laws that all ready in place to deal with this issue. Not to mention ORS 166.--- does include BB guns and by effect airsoft guns as firearms. Is a law enforcement going to jump a minor for playing with his airsoft gun, no. If he holds up a liqueur store with it... yes.