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

Well a knight with shining white head, brought up a good topic for me today SAFETY. Alright kiddies, lets get this shiv shav started. ALWAYS use a gun bag when transporting your weapon from and to a field. if by some chance your stopped by a cop tell him where its located and tell him its a toy in case he decides to search your car, then opens the bag all he sees is a guy with a gun in his trunk, sketchy right? Now for orange tips, they are necessary for transportation by law in most countries! but not when owning in some, so you can take them off, of course find the laws about this based on your country first before you tear that sucker off, but when going to field to field it helps to have a orange tip on it even if its in a gun bag, just in case of the cop scenario! An obvious one, wear eye protection if your under 18 most fields REQUIRE full face protection, a mask or lower mask segment attached to full seal goggles, 18+ you can wear just goggles at your own risk of course. Never and i mean NEVER bring your gun around public areas, for gods sake do you want to get shot? or get airsoft BANNED cause of your ignorance? Finally, when at a field most fields require you to wear "barrel sleeves" when not in action, i have no idea why cause your hand is miles away from the trigger half the time, and its not loaded, and if its an aeg has an unplugged battery, but some fields require. well this is the basics so, go out and have fun!

Green gas Vs. C02 there is a big difference between these 2 and of course that's why its a topic, which do you prefer, and which do i prefer? Green gas is effective and keeping the gun running well and staying at a fps low enough to fit just about any field, it also has a large selection of weapons it can be used on, mainly pistols and sub machine guns, but green gas is expensive, and hard to find, unless ordered online, which can be rather annoying to keep ordering online and wait the several weeks for it to arrive, as well its a gas, cant be flown over. C02 on the other hand, is cheap and at many sports stores, which are EVERYWHERE, but it has barely any good airsoft guns to use from, and well they usually exceed the fps limit of a field, of course when used in a larger rifle the smaller canisters you usually find drain out pretty fast, but it could be used effectively in a sniper rifle, or an assault rifle, but usually you go for AEG when it comes to assault rifles, so whats your pick of the crop, green gas, or C02? mine is green gas.

An idea

i have an idea, why doesn't someone setup a sea warfare type of deal, 2 ships/ and or docks and the allies and there enemies can use GBB and swim to the opposing teams side etc, with working turrets for anti infantry uses? motorboats, etc sadly we would need someone willing to make a gamble on this succeeding or not, or just ask bill gates when hes bored it would be really fun diving in and out sneaking around picking people off and slowly winning the battle, also CTF *capture the flag* would be incredibly fun as you could have multiple people doing multiple things scouts, assault, defenders, etc, what are your thoughts gentleman?

Airsoft Vs. paintball the age old rage war... in my opinion its clearly airsoft, as the tactics the realism is great less run n gun blindfiring, more fun sneaking around to blast off enemies 1 by 1, yet i'm not blind i can see why people want to dress up in spandex and blindfire, its "fast" paced.. sarcasm to the "can see why" i'm not a huge friend about how airsofters get alot of .. well "comments" on videos about how "stupid" it is, an 90% of the time its from the paintballers, the spandex's but i honestly can see why people do like paintball once again its fast paced, even though airsoft can be to.. CQB, and can be tactical, and looks better, with cooler more realistic guns, you know just everything, well that's my opinion, whats yours?

KWA coming out with the Kriss Vector a rare weapon popular among the COD fanboys *like we need anymore of them...* but still a new and innovative weapon, sadly its another gas submachine gun, and to my opinion thats a downer im a huge AEG fan, but supposedly its better for small smg's *sub machine gun for the noobs* to be gas as theres no need to take up large amount of space to make room for batteries etc, the kriss vectore will also be a new player in the CQB game as its small, very responsive trigger response, as its gas and the trigger is much closer to all of the mechanism, no wires, and well its just cool looking. Whats your opinion on this new beast coming to existence?

There's 2 types of field *basic not some spectacularly renamed SUPER PLASTIC FLAGGING FLYER FRAGGER TASTIC RAGERRATISTIC or some stuff like that, i'm talking indoor *CQB* or outdoor, i enjoy indoor as well you can basically always visit it, plus its fast paced shoot or die situations all the time, plus no one can just "camp" i.e stay in one place the whole time like a gigantic wuss who is scared of a fake bullet like a child would be but hes actually 20 which is sad don't you think? plus its easier to get everyone in and off the field fast, and get another round going. Outdoor does have its perks, you can have some seriously good firefights against the enemy, and can have many more people on the field at a time more people= more targets= fun. plus you can have fun tromping threw the woods, or desert, or whatever type of environment that the field is in. Whats your preference and why?