Arrived in Eton 1990 and gradually became a home for outdoor leisure activities involving pest control and small creature hunting, and target shooting, each year adding new categories, enabled by legislation such as CO2 powered air pistols, and blank firers, that could not be converted into real firearms, but are used for race start marshals, crop protection, or training dogs, or practice. Various forms of self defence came and went, as fashion or legislation determined.
The Introduction of airsoft guns which fire a 6mm plastic ball increased in popularity over paintball guns and was developed in parallel to the airgun side.