I'm Francis, I first got into airsoft after a friend and I bought cheap springers at Fry's electronics just for kicks. We had apartment wars and then I started an arms race. I left my springer there one night and had to go back and knew I'd be ambushed (as close as you can get to an ambush in a small apartment anyway) so I stopped by Fry's and get a mini electric then lit them up when I went in. Next two other guys got minis and we all got a small interest in airsoft in general. Then I got a springer rifle from eBay. We stopped the arms race and banned airsoft guns from the games (for a while at least). I kept the interest and found AA, played at a game with AA sometime last year (Op Dragons Head I think) and loved it. Since then I've played a few other games (5 maybe) and moved up from springers and minis to an M16 Boys (Xmas present from friends bc/all my guns were dead) and now I've got an M9 GBB and G3 SG1 and some gear. I also pulled open the SG1 gearbox bc/the piston was broken and replaced that, replaced a motor connector and replaced the hop-up, all without parental supervision.