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That's a really odd article for a number of reasons;
It reads as though its this big unique shipment that has never happened before. And yet there's hundreds or thousands of airsoft shops here in the country. I suppose the lack of orange tips threw them off, and maybe that's why they are being "destroyed." Seems a bit extreme for what is really still just a detailed toy.
I don't see how you would ever convert these to fire anything real without a lot of work. There is no cycling system for any sort of gas. They are run electrically. And airsoft BBs are 6mm...that's slightly larger than a .22 I suppose so maybe you could swing one of those, but I don't expect it would support any sort of chamber pressure. And how exactly would the casing fit in there in the first place? Some Google work shows that people have used stocks from airsoft guns to mount a 10/22 mechanism and barrel in, but that isn't exactly a conversion so much as it just happens to be using an airsoft stock to refit the original rifle.
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the [terrorists] -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character
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