| Airsoft guns are frequently used to train soldiers and | | | | are many reasons for this, the most being that the gun |
| officers in the army and in law enforcement | | | | doesn't feel real. You have a large CO2 container |
| (respectively). Why is this? Well, airsoft guns are very | | | | bulging out from the back, and a hopper right in your |
| similar to real guns used by these personnel, and in | | | | face. Another important thing is that clips are not used |
| many cases, the size ratio and even weight ratio is 1:1. | | | | in paintball, except for occasionally being incorporated |
| Also, the devices function very closely to how real | | | | into paintball pistols. Pouring paintballs into a hopper |
| guns operate, at least, at a superficial level. Of course | | | | does not feel realistic at all. In airsoft, you reload clips |
| when it comes down to internal functioning, a real gun | | | | like you would with a real gun. On to the size of the |
| will have the proper pins and such in order to ignite | | | | ammunition; airsoft pellets are closer to the size of |
| gunpowder inside ammunition, while airsoft guns have | | | | bullets, while paintballs are big, and in many cases you |
| no shells and are projected by a spring or gas. And | | | | can see them coming. It is definitely harder to see |
| unlike what many people may have told you, it's the | | | | plastic BBs, especially when they are dark. |
| outside that counts (at least, in airsoft). | | | | Military simulations utilize airsoft guns more than law |
| One of the main reasons airsoft guns are so attractive | | | | enforcement simulations, as police officers do not |
| in militaristic simulations is, besides the realism, the | | | | regularly use machine guns. While many cops may use |
| simple fact that you can actually use them to fight. All | | | | the products for recreational use, they are not regularly |
| you can do with a real gun is target shoot or, at most, | | | | sanctioned for training. The statistics for airsoft use |
| fire blanks at people, but nothing that comes close to | | | | within SWAT is most likely higher than that of regular |
| real. Personnel can actually engage in realistic military | | | | police officers, but it is certain that the military |
| operations with airsoft guns, and perform maneuvers | | | | incorporate airsoft guns more than any other agency. |
| that they may well do in actual combat. The training is | | | | The fact that airsoft is becoming so involved with the |
| very efficient because of the size and weight ratios, | | | | military is one of the reasons that airsoft guns are |
| and the fact that, with the use of the appropriate | | | | becoming more advanced. It is no secret that there |
| airsoft guns, the training feels like a real battle. | | | | are certain flaws with airsoft guns, and "airsoft |
| The alternative to airsoft guns, paintball guns, have also | | | | scientists", so to speak, are thinking up ways to make |
| been used in training. The problem with using paintball | | | | airsoft guns more realistic, save for the deadliness. |
| guns is that it is much harder to feel like it is real. There | | | | |