Just give them something from the Chateau dè Cardboard Range and tell them it’s a very popular Red! 
Bulletproof Customs is closed.
It’s always a sad day when anyone involved in this hobby has to shut their doors 
I don’t know what the answer is, the way things are going I’ll be firearmless before I’m dead.
Price of factory ammo has gone through the roof, then if you are reloaders we’ve been fucked for 4 years with no pistol powder or very little of it selling for $500 for a kg. It’s nuts. Like Trailboss and yea pistol/shotgun powder is similar. I have rifles that need to be fed pistol powder like my Lever action.
One club I’m in are buying shotgun factory loads and pulling them apart for the powder to reload their pistols. I wouldn’t recommend it but they know what they are doing and have been doing it for 3 years as AUS has no pistol powder anymore since the French company Thales stopped making it after Howard sold it off the cunt. Was Gov owned.
It would be alright if people were not such fuck heads with firearms like it was in the 70’s and 80’s in Australia.
Same bullshit for gel blasters. Get a few dickheads fuck around. Oh just ban it. 
Rant off…
Got to love TTs Fakebook advertising - generally what they promote is out of stock
Their stock levels are so low and prices have been lower than any other retailer. Wonder if they are phasing themselves out?
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That’d be my bet going off their stock levels. 
Think they might be concentrating on tapping the US market. 
Wouldn’t surprise me!
There’s a lot of money to be made in the USA right now, especially if your reputation is completely unknown in an uneducated market
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Imagine what would happen over there if they tried their “warranty” antics on with the wrong buyer…
“Oh, you won’t honour the warranty on my faulty Glock 17 gel blaster? Okay, let me introduce you to my real Glock…” 
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Hence the “mail order” buisness model…
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Aussie Hobbies have closed their Brisbane/Archerfield store
Word on the street from the USA is that TaccyToys over there is basically a sinking ship.
They first launched with all the usual Taccy marketing ploys and flash advertising about their “special products”……. which were just TaccyToy rebranded products as usual, but by all accounts have fizzled out pretty quickly.
Apparently stocks are pretty much non-existent and have been for a while, as well as any advertising, parts, customer communications etc all suspiciously gone quiet
Maybe they launched too big into an industry that really hasn’t gotten off of the ground yet in regards to popularity and sales numbers?
I couldn’t care less, anything that Corey touches turns to shit.
It’s more likely that air soft has been around for a long time in the USA.
It’s a better product
More choices in weapons
Excepted by the public
90% of the public grew up learning about guns in school ( no not by the mass shootings).
There is actual gun safety classes in primary school. (Friend of mine daughter Just finished here course on gun Ed and she is 11.) don’t you just love Texas.
WOKE Parents can opt out there kids from it .
AND THE BIGGEST REASON IS
real guns are sometimes cheaper than both air soft and gel Blasters .
Specially if you buy them from the back alley Emporium were there all one price
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Yeah, put an airsoft blaster next to a gel blaster and you’d have to ask yourself “Why bother?” Especially if they cost roughly the same.
I drool over some of the airsoft shells, knowing that it would take bugger all work to convert and end up with a far superior external shell than the often too flimsy gel blaster offerings we get.
The only reason gel is even getting a foothold in the US is because it’s viewed as a more kid friendly alternative by woke parents…
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Watching some of the Airsoft games in Europe are so over the top .
The locations are amazing.
Love the sniper videos.
And the array of weapon are brilliant.
Saw one using a drone with a Glock strapped to it.
Another with an RPG AND A MINI GUN.
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Ah well. There’s always the option of a holiday in NZ.
I remember my nephew went over to Queenstown for a snowboarding holiday… found an airsoft shop down the main drag, so purchased a couple of manual pistols to pew pew with in their hotel rooms.
Left them on the coffee table when they packed up to fly home because they knew they couldn’t bring them home.
But apparently the snow was epic. 
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Yeah this is definitely why the Chinese Manufacturers never tried competing selling Gelblasters in Countries where Airsoft was heavily used, so concentrated on the Australian market instead 
They will never gain as much popularity as Airsoft for sure, far from it, but there’s definitely still a huge market as their popularity grows as a cheaper/cleaner/safer/lower powered option for kids and adults alike 
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Then the most Woke place in the US went and banned it haha
Gel won’t take off in the US, I can tell by the interaction I had with TE and their foray into it when that US fella was asking for info. Some are interested but the main interest will always be airsoft and real ones. Airsoft has been around for 50 years lol
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This is true, especially considering the high price of decent quality blasters, which puts them out of reach of the average young players and families looking to get 4 or 5 to run around the yard with.
The Splatterball/Surge/Walmart Brands are doing a steady trade with $20-$50 blasters, but the higher end of the market is struggling to sell more expensive brands that cost the same as Airsoft……. but without the performance
Ive always seen gelsoft, as the only alternative, in countries where a/soft is otherwise banned.
That would be the only reason.
Put both side by side, a/soft has better range / performance / accuracy.
Gelsoft ammo is " safer" when skirmishing indoors / on concrete as it crushes rather than being a slip hazard.
It can also be touted as being more " environmentally friendly", by way of ammo breakdown.
But, it seems the main reason for gelsoft is for selling into countries where a/soft has been banned…