| Electric airsoft guns are the best of the best when it | | | | depletes. The average electric airsoft handgun or rifle |
| comes to airsoft weapons. They are, without doubt, | | | | is capable of firing bbs at up to 300 feet per second - |
| amongst the most desirable items in any airsoft | | | | more than enough to put a hole in a tin can at the |
| owners collection or potential collection. These guns | | | | bottom of your garden. |
| are also known as AEG (airsoft electric guns) or AER | | | | Electric airsoft rifles are very popular in airsoft paintball |
| (airsoft electric rifles). The really nice thing about AEGs | | | | battles. These paintballs are the standard 6mm airsoft |
| is the wide variety of models available. For years | | | | pellet size but there's a difference. A standard paintball |
| these guns were limited to just full size assault rifles | | | | marker is capable of firing several dozens rounds per |
| but you can now buy them in pistol variants, mini AEG | | | | minute whereas the airsoft guns can fire hundreds of |
| variants and of course the full size models also. There | | | | rounds per minute which can lead to exciting battles |
| really is something in electric airsoft guns for every | | | | between airsoft fans. The only downside here is that if |
| airsoft or gun enthusiast. | | | | an airsoft paintball breaks inside the gun you'll have to |
| The inside of any AEG is a technical marvel. It contains | | | | completely strip it down to clear out the gunk inside. |
| a small but very powerful motor. When you pull the | | | | There's also a wide range of accessories available for |
| trigger on the gun it completes an electrical circuit that | | | | electric airsoft guns from the aforementioned paintball |
| makes this motor spin which in turns compresses a | | | | bbs to tactical scopes and detachable flash lights. |
| piston inside the gun. Once the required pressure has | | | | Heck you could even go hog wild and attach a laser |
| been reached the piston moves forward compressing | | | | sight to your airsoft gun. |
| the air behind the bb and firing it from the barrel of the | | | | Never just assume that electric airsoft guns are legal in |
| gun. The really neat thing about electric airsoft guns is | | | | your country - always, always check that these guns |
| that they're highly portable because of the | | | | (even though they are in effect sophisticated toys) are |
| self-contained power mechanism and the firing rate is | | | | legal in your area. |
| constant and accurate until the battery charge | | | | |