PMCI - May 2021

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TRAINING: 6MM
partnerships with more permissive manufacturers such as Knights
Armament Company and Fabrique Nationale in the past, and
deriving thematic replicas similar to other real weapons where
the licensing arrangements of less permissive manufacturers
became too much of an encumbrance to deal with, many of
G&G’s more recent product lines are derived from a blend of real
firearms and their pertinent features to create very ergonomic
and easily operated shooting platforms.
In terms of their company structure and reach, their current facility
homes their hundred or so employees dealing with management,
international sales, research & development, design and final
assembly; since their move in the early 2010’s they have changed
their production model to outsourcing all of their components to
subcontractors, focusing solely on assembly and test in house, as
well as front end design and rapid prototyping to assure quality
and suitability for the end user prior to final release of designs to
their suppliers.
Supplying up to a hundred and twenty thousand units in total
a year if working to maximum capacity, their best-selling lines
account for nearly half of all that capacity; moving around fifty
thousand guns annually in that range, all of their products are
made to order in batches tailored to every end stockist’s local
legal requirements - producing a range of gearbox assemblies to
suit the likes of US, south American, European, Korean or Japanese
power output restrictions - as well as consideration for the likes
of orange tipped muzzles or two tone colour schemes for some
markets, all of which are shipped to nearly 60 countries that G&G
service worldwide.
In line with Mr Liao’s desire to spread education and a positive
public opinion of airsoft as far and wide as possible, many of
these countries are also invited to field national teams in the
ever growing G&G Armament World Cup shooting competition
- with many countries already attending over the last four years
events pre-Covid, giving ever greater international recognition to
airsoft as a legitimate, active, healthy, focused and team building
hobby which can hopefully overcome its apparently ever present
negative connotations or media perception; in Taiwan, as in the
UK and no doubt elsewhere, there is a predominantly anti- gun
sentiment in many people who see anything remotely firearmsrelated
as having criminal connections or otherwise raising very
negative press or public reactions.
TURNING TO TRAINING
Alongside the World Cup events, G&G actively engages with
national military, law enforcement, government and educational
establishments to spread a positive message about the benefits
of responsible shooting cultures and even produced aesthetically
accurate and real weight replicas of the Republic of China Armed
Forces’ standard T91 weapons platform to aid in training of service
personnel in Force on Force situations or general range work and
weapons handling prior to progressing to live fire weapons.
In conjunction with these efforts G&G have also produced
a variety of multi-functional electronic targeting systems which
react to BB strikes and change lighting colour or allow an array
of targets to be programmed for time trials or other shooting
range games to test user’s marksmanship and reaction times,
some of which they have set up on their facilities top floor in
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