The online market is usually the only place to go for your airsoft equipment, unless your in California, which in that case 90% of the airsoft stores are there, why? because we import most of our guns from Asia, and that's also where airsoft started thanks to Tokyo marui one of the first airsoft companies to start on the sale of AEGs, sadly this means that the east coast airsofters, get no large companies setting up shop as they don't want to ship even further, and pay that extra amount, meaning online is the only good source to find guns and equipment, this is not necessarily bad as ordering is  incredibly simple, finding specific guns is fast and easy, and discovering new companies and equipment you want is even easier, with the help of youtube it's better as you can see the object in action, and peoples thoughts on it, prior to buying it, but the only major issue really, is the wait, the terrible wait, if you don't want to blow another 50 dollars to get it in one day, you usually ship by ground, and most companies have deals to which you can get free ground shipping like airsoftgi, my personal favorite, or evike, usually you have to pass a certain spending amount, usually 100 dollars, but it's a week+ wait, a week of dieing to get your gun. now after getting your gun let's say it comes back broken, here comes the fun part, the return, most companies are INCREDIBLY stubborn when coming to returnals of a sold object, especially if they know you cant get to them, also if you break your gun its hard to find a reliable technician to fix the gun, if you don't know how to yourself, the "field" techs at the ones  in mass, I've dealt with usually screw you over and end up breaking your gun another way, and will not take responsibility for it, even though it's there job, so hopefully one day Massachusetts can looks forward to a large corporation for airsoft setting shop up here