Introduction

Airsoft guns are replicas of firearms that had a plastic pellet bullets his way to the gas compression or by using the spring potential energy for even the newest products using electric energy. but in the end still uses air pressure for cast bullets.

History

In the 1980s in Japan is illegal to own a firearm, but an interest to have a very large gun. look at this opportunity several firearms manufacturers began to produce his bullet had replica guns plastic pellets to be sold traded legally. with a spring force to sell products and make new hobby among the civilian population. subsequent years until it was created palastik become standard usage of pellets 6mm and 8mm sizes.

modifications and then changing the gas use plastic pellets to throw bullets at the newest products. This hobby and then move to North America in mid-1990. with the initial manufacturer Tokyo Marui as the holder of the largest markets do a lot of modifications to their products by doing various repairs on all types of model accuracy Airsoft gun and began to produce various other types of replica guns until the start of 2000 Tokyo Marui AEG launched its latest product, or automatic electric guns. products began to hit the market this Airsoft spring type.

competitors emerge from Tokyo Marui products such as manufacturer Jing Gong, CYMA are more priority to producing cheap replicas with selling power to the market.

Usage

Airsoft is used solely for the purpose of recreation and hobbies, where the civilian population did this game in the area were open and indor area that has been registered with the military scenario, where the scenarios that are usually imposed are made as if to resemble a tactical assault Hostage release. Where teams are divided into two, the first team is a terrorist and counter terrorist teams into two tasks into two teams that do defense against their priorities.

Some companies such as Systema Airsoft Engineering and Celsius produces a special type that supports the high accuracy and high speed for law enforcement officers with military training purposes.