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Robins is pleased to sponsor the Team Lone Wolf airsoft team.

Airsoft is a military simulation game, similar in some ways to paintball. Team Lone Wolf is made up of players from around the country, with members both young and not so young (!), including former members of the British Army and Royal Navy. The photo below shows the team at the National Airsoft Event 2009, which was held in the New Forest, in Hampshire, over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Robin is in the front row, third from the left.

Paintball uses paint marks to show when a player has been hit, whereas airsoft uses plastic 6mm balls which leave no marks. Because of this, airsoft is considered to be a sport which values honesty and integrity above all other things. Teamwork, goal setting and communication skills are all needed to succeed in airsoft.

Players use guns which, while closely resembling real world weapons, are basically very low powered airguns. The ball they fire weighs considerably less than half a gram and is incapable of causing injury from more than a few meters away. Even from close range, small bruises are normally the only injuries caused, as full eye protection is mandatory while playing. These guns are now restricted under the Violent Crime Reduction Act (2006), however regular airsoft players were granted an exception in the legislation allowing them to continue to purchase and use these guns.