The air soft-gun begins its history in the country of Japan. It was in the years of the 1980's when there is an implementation of firearms ban in Japan. Still there are people who are interested to own guns the reason why some of the businessman and manufacturers begun to manufacture products that resembles and look like the real guns.

 These toy guns are usually powered by springs and equipped with plastic or rubber bullets. These spring-powered realistic guns eventually developed into a gas powered guns using of course many varities of system approaches.

 In the middle of 1990's, this technology was migrated into the land of North America. This time, the conventional spring guns were transformed into what we call now as the Air-soft Gun.

 The Air soft gun is a replica firearm that has the capability to propel plastic pellets. These plastic pellets are also called as BBs. The process how the bullets propel is done through a compressed gas or through a spring-driven kind of piston.

 The Air soft guns as well as its bullets are intentionally design to be non-lethal as well as providing realistic replicas of the real weapons or guns.

 The Air soft guns are usually used just for some sort of recreational purposes. Today, there are certain organizations such as air soft clubs or even association in sports all around the world that are devoted and considered the used of these guns as one kind of sports. These guns are also used as training weapons for military personnel and are used by different military organization throughout the world.

 There are many kinds of Air soft guns. They are either spring powered, electric powered, or gas powered. There are many cheap electric airsoft guns as well as other kinds of air soft gun that are available in the market.

 There are many manufacturers of Air soft gun in the industry. These manufacturers are the Western Arms, System Engineering, TOP, SRC, Tokyo Marui, Maruzen, Marushin, KWC, Mad Bull Air soft, KSC/KWA. KJ Works, Jing Gong, King Arms, ICS, HFC,G&P,G&G, Echo 1, Aftermath, A&K, AGM, Celsius Technology, Crossman, Classic Army and much more.

 Most of the Air soft guns are manufactures in the Asian countries such as in the countries of Japan, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan as well as South Korea. Still there are other brands that exist that are coming from the countries form Europe and North America.