scratchbuilt...?
 

I have noticed that it is a lot easier to build a firearm than it is to build an airsoft gun. The reason for me saying this is that the mechanisms for firing a cartridge are much less complicated that the valving needed to have a short burst of gasses needed to fire the little plastic spheres of death.

has anyone else noticed this?

i dont get it. one is more complicated than the other, duh.

Yes, airsoft guns and real guns are two entirely different systems.
Im pretty sure lots of people have noticed this.

Whats your point veedoor? Are you trying to make conversation?

Airsoft guns do not = real guns.

Yes strange I've noticed this as well.

I've noticed that all real guns come FMU out of the factory.
What's with that, come on TM, it's time to up the game!

i Was trying to say that regular firearms are quite easy to build if you have some basic tools and materials

but with the same materials, an airsoft gun would be much harder to build. Even considering not having to strengthen anything.

Easier to manufacture or not, I would much rather trust a homemade GBB or AEG than a home made firearm.

...and??

your comparing two rather different items

this reminds me of that thread about wheter real steel or airsoft is easier to field strip

Are you talking building from raw materials or parts?

raw materials

not barrel blanks and 80% receivers but blocks of untreated steel

Well a sten gun is basically a tube with a firing pin.

Airguns need machined parts. I guess you can make pneumatics airsoft rifle out of pvc pipe but it won't look like a gun.


A real gun can be roughly made zip guns etc. My dad was telling me about the guns made by Chinese blacksmith during ww2 to fight against the Japanese. Roughly chiseled and filed revolvers they can shoot but you will have problems hitting a guy 20 ft away. I don't think you can make an airsoft gun from stamped steel but you can make a sten gun.

Maybe I should try and build a airsoft gun I can get CNC machined parts because my Dad works at a machine shop.

You got a lathe and mill?