| Airsoft is a contemporary sport based in combat and | | | | Lithuania, Poland, Ireland are joining the bandwagon |
| tactical warfare. It is a leisure pursuit where players | | | | of growing airsoft enthusiasts. Dutch players visited |
| eliminate enemies by hitting each other with rounded | | | | these counties for the playing experience as the |
| non-metallic pellets using an air gun. Air Guns or | | | | game is banned in Netherlands. |
| Airsoft guns are usually powered by a manual | | | | During the 1990s, springer kits became so widely |
| spring-load, gas or sometimes electrically powered | | | | available in the hobby stores that it enabled |
| gearbox. | | | | enthusiasts to customize their airsoft guns to suit |
| Members of airsoft organizations systematize an | | | | their needs. Also during that era, Japan developed |
| engagement whether in an indoor or outdoor event | | | | airsoft guns that gradually replaced the Automatic |
| committed to airsoft combat zone to play different | | | | Electric Guns (airsoft AEG) and at the same alteration |
| games in a variety of interim skirmishes, military | | | | on different gun models were introduced. |
| simulations, battle scenarios and even historical battle | | | | The first airsoft guns were air powered guns, |
| re-enactments. | | | | spring-driven pellet guns and cap-type guns. The |
| Military warfare on the combat zone often includes | | | | Japanese type of these airsoft pistols were of |
| the employment of military tactics and fighting | | | | semi-automatic, and spring powered. The pellets |
| methods to accomplish missions set in every game. | | | | were thrusts into the air after the releasing of the |
| The use of different types of military weaponry | | | | spring piston. However, in the cap-type airsoft guns, |
| fabricated as replicas of the real tactical gears, | | | | they are utilizing an explosive cap that mimic a gunfire |
| firearms as well as accessories use in contemporary | | | | sound. While in spring driven pellet guns, which is |
| armed services. | | | | mainly spring-based, was a spring that was used to |
| Airsoft games started late 1950s particularly in East | | | | boost the pellet stuck between two locks that were |
| Asia, exactly in Japan. During that time, Japanese | | | | small and released only as the gun fires. |
| laws were strict that it is hard to possess a firearm; | | | | Only during the 1990s that the United States and the |
| however, airsoft enthusiasts found a legal alternative | | | | rest of Europe would catch up with the growing |
| to owning a gun in order for them to pursue and | | | | popularity of the said sport, and continue to spread |
| enjoy their passion. Until then airsoft became so | | | | all throughout the region. In 2003, the company, |
| popular in the said region following countries like | | | | Daisy, started to produce airsoft guns specifically |
| China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Macau, Hong | | | | aimed for the American market with their brand |
| Kong, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Airsoft pistols, | | | | name as "PowerStrike." Other businesses follow the |
| guns and their accessories and upgrades were also | | | | trail of Daisy and soon came up with the different |
| manufactured in these regions. | | | | kinds of airsoft gun to supply the growing market of |
| The game, also gaining popularity in western front as | | | | enthusiasts, local and abroad. A host of different |
| the likes of United States, United Kingdom, Germany, | | | | models and prices soon added to the demand on the |
| Canada, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, | | | | airsoft gun market. |