Yes I was, Scott! But I was drunk and I can't remember anything
I'm normal sizes but that Masterchief is tall, in every direction. I gave him a hand to get in his suit and it was like squeezing a kitty in a bottle.
About those weapons; That happend in the Netherlands a few months ago. They have a weird law on weapons overthere.
Everything that looks like a weapon (toyguns, airsoft, ect) is forbidden.
Here in Belgium we have a law that makes the life of "re-enactors" a bit easyer.
You can transport your reproduction weapon to an event/convention in a closed box, magazines kept in a different box during transport.
When you stay indoors, you don't need a permit. When you take your weapons outside on public grounds you got to have a permit.
You can get this by informing the police or mayor of the town where the event is taking place and they will write you a permit for that day or weekend.
Normaly it's up to the organisation of the event to do so. They have to send a copy of that permit to every person that is taking part of that event.
The law is so "smooth" here that you can own severall WW2 era weapons without a weaponslicense. When you don't own ammo for that weapon, you don't need that piece of paper.
But when you have ammo for it... The burocratic comedy starts to get a license.