Welcome aboard neighbour!
Always good to hear from people in different countries and hear their stories and experiences with this hobby, as well as the foam dart scene as well
Plenty of good people with plenty of experience here always willing to lend a hand, so don’t be shy and looking forward to hearing more about yourself
Hey people! Just dusted off the couple of GBB pistols i bought a few years ago and it’s rekindled my interest in the hobby. As a member of the old forum, it’s great to see that it has been resurrected to its former glory. I look forward to catching up with all the latest developments in the wonderful world of gel blasters.
Hei hei, I’m Zilla. I’m very interested in the sport of gelsoft and airsoft and even though I’m located in Western Australia, one of the most hopeless parts of the world when it comes to all this stuff I’m hopeful that some kind of miracle will come along to get rid of all these useless and redundant bans on toy guns.
Ohh nice nice, I can’t give out my exact location obviously but I’m in the north western suburbs of perth, about a half hour from the cbd. I’ve been following all that legislation stuff sort of on and off since about mid 2021 and seeing all the crazy gymnastics the local government does to keep these things away from us is mind blowing, really glad to see that people are still putting up a fight for this stuff, hopefully I can try to help in any way I can, cause granted I’m much more into airsoft than gelsoft but getting gels legalized is a very important first step in getting airsoft legalized, and to be honest, I’ll take anything I can get at this point lmao.
Thanks for the great response telling us a little more about yourself
I have been part of the whole Airsoft/Paintball scene in Western Australia since the very early 1990’s, playing with Airsoft before it got prohibited, then many years of Paintball until it got too costly, so then embraced the Gelblaster scene that got ADDED to the already existing Airsoft/Paintball Clubs until that too got taken away the same as Airsoft years prior
Spent a LOT of time and money through various Clubs and Committees fighting the Legislation from every conceivable angle that we could, and even though we had major WINS in the Western Australian Supreme Courts, that asshole Papsmear just laughed in the face of Federal Laws and changed State Laws to suit his agenda in losing his case in the Supreme Courts
Won’t ask you specifics of where you live, but is handy to have another trooper available in our campaign to put pressure on our local Parliament Members to build higher backing for our cause
Gosh that’s crazy, seems wa was alot more lax 20 or so years ago, sucks that I wasn’t around to experience it. I’ll try my best to help the cause in any way I can cause I truly am passionate about all of this. Are there any groups I can join to keep up to date? cause finding this forum alone was pure dumb luck haha.
There’s not really any groups left after the total banning of Gelblasters in WA
It’s all down to individuals like you and me to continue to put pressure on our local Government Members to keep the plight alive and not forgotten.
If you Google WA Gelbaster forums/Clubs/Spacebook/Reddit/Discord etc, you will find many more WA enthusiasts who haven’t given in and are still fighting the fight… hence why I’m so happy that you have found your way here as another WA Gelbaster enthusiast
I can only help in regards to hooking you up with information as to how to do your part to continue to lobby for the Gelbaster hobby in WA
Never been one for introductions but I’ve been around in the shadows of the replica/gel blaster world since 2012-13 time-frame back when the only things remotely realistic we could have without entering into the real firearms scene, were the shitty plastic electric noise rifles and had fun kitting those out (though would typically break a few weeks later).
I work in defence, so I have a “healthy” fascination/interest (depending on whom you ask) with firearms and have recently spent too much money doing up a “M4 Destroyer” that I bought on a whim back in 2021 from M4A1 store, knew nothing about gel blasters at the time and they pulled it off the rack and said “lots of people go for this one” so yeah recently thought I’d kit it out externally, not real up to speed with how the internals work or even if it works, since I have yet to shoot it.
Anyway came across this forum and since I’m getting into this more and wanting to hopefully experience the mil-sim side of the gel blaster scene that this would be a good place to start, so yeah, howdy