[Wilson]

In order to see stores like that in Canada we would need a very high volume of players, which a lot of the Airsoft Canada community elders are seemingly highly against.

While much of this has to do with a draconian customs system, a lot of it has to do with the community's outright hatred for new comers to the sport. We'd need tens of thousands of dedicated, year-round, airsofters to see any kind of buildup like that - and the dozens we do see are normally flamed right back to playing paintball, usually where they came from.

Unfortunately running the entire country's airsoft community out of one website, and then trying to control the peoples' ability to buy and sell based on age with only a handful of people pressing the buttons, is only functional on paper (even then, its chances of success are iffy). To reach the consumer volume we need to have actual brick and mortar airsoft retailers stay afloat in Canada, some serious changes need to be made - and mostly to the heavily right-wing attitudes of those calling the shots.