| If you have an interest in airsoft you have probably | | | | number of years despite laws that clearly prohibited |
| heard about the Chinese Government crackdown on | | | | the manufacture of these airsoft rifle and pistol |
| airsoft factories. Depending on your news source, the | | | | clones. It is these clones that provided inexpensive |
| report you have received may vary from the closing | | | | products to the world and that in recent years even |
| of several "illegal" gun factories, to the destruction of | | | | provided some competition in quality and durability to |
| thousands of guns, to the arrest and imprisonment | | | | the models manufactured in Japan and the USA. |
| of several of the gun factory owners. Your | | | | The bottom line is that the factories will be closed |
| perspective on the seriousness of the plant closures | | | | for some time and maybe permanently which will at |
| is dependent on what you believe are the reasons | | | | least affect supplies and prices in the short term just |
| for the crackdown. Some suggest that this is simply | | | | as suppliers are building their inventories for the |
| a part of the crackdown that the communist | | | | holiday buying season. The drop in supply of these |
| government has made on a variety of entrepreneurial | | | | competitively priced airsoft guns will probably result in |
| enterprises to demonstrate on the 60th anniversary | | | | an increase in price of those that are available and |
| of Chinese communism that all capitalistic enterprises | | | | put pressure on the inventories of the next |
| will be brought under the control of the government. | | | | expensive models of airsoft guns. |
| Others believe it is only a temporary closure until the | | | | As we approach the start of the Christmas shopping |
| schedule of bribery payments to the appropriate | | | | season and you anticipate being in the market for a |
| government officials is settled. Other reports suggest | | | | good quality, value priced airsoft gun, you may want |
| that airsoft rifle and pistol molds were used to create | | | | to find your store of choice soon and place your |
| real guns and those were sold to Chinese citizens. | | | | order now before the inventories are diminished and |
| Whatever the reason, the airsoft business in China | | | | prices begin to skyrocket. |
| has been allowed to succeed and even thrive for a | | | | |