Please allow me to disagree with the obvious fun and pleasure of airsoft games. I am an ardent supporter of the Second Amendment and I am vehemently against any gun control (or, rather, people control). I bought a pink Crikett rifle for my daughter's 7th birthday and both of my kids shoot regularly at the range. In fact, I insist on it as part of their schooling. I am also very adamant about gun safety. That's where airsoft and I don't get along. Now, this is just my opinion and please set me straight if I am wrong, but to me, pointing a gun, even if a toy, at someone that you don't really want to shoot, or shouldn't shoot, is just not a great idea. One of the problems that children (and I mean all the way up to their 30's) experience with video games is that they put them into an alternate reality where any screw up can be corrected with the reset button. Likewise with toy guns - where is the line between reality and a game? Besides, there's "muscle memory" -- if the kids are taught from day one that a gun must not be pointed at anything that you don't intend to destroy, the likelihood of an accident will be greatly reduced. Why not, instead, get them real guns, take them to the range (or hunting) and under supervision teach them to respect and appreciate the weapon that they hold?

These things are great for training in the house during the winter when you don't feel like going to the range. Good trigger control and proper break can be learned and practiced with these.

You can really run full-on scenarios with these, especially if you get one that is a copy of your carry or home defense gun. I have this birthday coming up.......

ohh, this brings back some fun memories. I have a few of these. I should probably check if they still work. is there one you recommend in particular?

I used to get together with about 10 friends and have air soft battles. We'd go to a park and play after dark. Then one night we jumped the fence into a construction zone where a school was being built. Some one called the cops on us and they took our guns, said we could have them back if our parents came with us to collect them lol. Like that was going to happen.