PMCI - May 2021

GETTING INSIDE WITH G&G ARMAMENT
With “6MM Training” finally attaining not only an acceptable, but indeed a welcome voice in the forearms
world perhaps it’s time for us to show you a little more of some of the companies behind some of the excellent
platform options out there, and it may surprise you to discover that some, such as G&G Armament in Taiwan,
are already well advanced in working with both police and military units to provide safe and effective training
tools! Bill tells us the story…
O
kay, I’m not for one moment going to try and pull
the wool over anyone’s eyes that when we talk
about “6MM Training Platforms” we are talking
about anything other than “airsoft replicas”; yes,
the very self-same replicas that you’ll find on old
paintball fields and some actually very advanced
dedicated skirmish sites worldwide in the hands
of enthusiast players quite literally “having a blast”
each and every weekend!
However, how many times have you heard now-famous shooting
luminaries start their story with “it all began with my Red Ryder…”
so let’s not be TOO harsh on these BB-spitting creations, as unlike
that beloved Daisy model some of them actually replicate real-world
firearms down to exact weight, size, and every other specification
you can imagine, and many of them are of extremely high quality,
offering performance that once again might make you sit back and
think… hard!
When I was at SHOT with Trampas and Clint back in 2019 I spent
some time showing them what I believe are amongst the most
versatile non-lethal firearm training tools ever, and it’s been great to
see both of them adopting a new direction as they now also believe
that “6MM” can assist them in filling their ever-growing, never-tobe-full
training toolboxes!
I spent some time with Clint showing him both gas-powered
pistols and “AR” models, and he found it incredible that just like the
“real deal” he could pretty much create the platform he wanted,
using the same style of accessory parts that he would mount on a
real .223 carbine. He asked me about stocks, rails, optics, different
barrel lengths, and accessories and all I could tell him was “yup,
no problem, you can build that” and it was a joy to see a new
appreciation dawn for him.
And the creation of what many may still see as “toys” is just
as large a business in the big, wide shooting world as any, and by
way of illustration I’d like to introduce you to one of the “big guys”
in the 6MM world, G&G Armament, and I’d like to thank my friend
Stu Mortimer who lives in Taiwan for helping me out with this.
When I asked Stu about G&G he told me that nestled in
Shengang township, just on the outskirts west of Taichung (Taiwan’s
central city and major manufacturing base) Guay & Guay Armament
(G&G) moved to their current facility a decade ago, following a
need to expand their operations as they grew their own product
lines and shifted focus toward final assembly and front end research
and development of airsoft replicas to meet a growing market both
domestically and abroad.
Originally G&G began trading in 1986 not far from their current
location; starting out with importation of Japanese goods such as
toys and stationery they soon diversified into supplying Japanese
airsoft goods to the Taiwanese market as airsoft began growing in
popularity in Asia and further afield. Frustrated with the apparent
lack of responsiveness or availability of spare parts to satisfy their
customer’s service needs, G&G eventually derived the ability to
reverse engineer their own components to serve as spares in the
Taiwanese market.
They soon acquired sufficient stock and variety of components
to produce their own guns entirely - and so the modern form of
the business was born; James Liao - the founding father of the
company decided first to attempt an M14 replica, having served
in the Republic of China Marines Special Forces himself, a certain
desire to make their first replica one of his trusted service rifle was
inevitable. Originally derived from the components and gearboxes
of others, Mr Liao soon decided to look toward developing homegrown
designs and subsystems, coining the name of the company
‘Guay & Guay’ that translates as ‘strange/different’ as an ethos for
the burgeoning airsoft manufacturer, one daring to be different,
rather than following everyone else’s products, and not afraid to
take risks in the market not just with new or odd aesthetics, but
also developing new internal operating mechanisms or components
without fear of failure.
MOVING FORWARD
With the progression of the business and a growing product range
their first milestone in terms of a brand new operating system came
in the form of their pneumatic blowback system, a first of its kind
for electric airsoft guns, which did not require the recoil simulation
assembly to be mechanically connected to the gear system as with
other earlier competitor’s offerings.
The range of models offered continued to grow with various
themes or replications of real counterparts; with some direct
TRAINING: 6MM
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