Meanwhile I live in Montana in the US, so I can get an actual rifle with a 100 round drum mag easier than you can get an airsoft gun
Really though, classifying them as restricted military weapons based on looks makes zero sense to me =/
Anyways, I've only played paintball so I can't really say much on airsoft, I don't really know anything about it at all. From the sounds of it though it would be awful, I hate when people take things seriously period, unless it's something that actually matters. I've only done paintball a bit though, after a few major surgeries I'm not allowed to get hit in the tummy lol, but when I did it was pretty fun. We played it out in the woods just a bit outside of town, and everybody had camo jackets so it wasn't particularly easy to spot each other. Hurt a bit to get hit but not terribly, unless it was like bare skin or something, in which case it was awful. Or if it was point blank. I never was hit point blank, but I may or may not have ended up hitting my best buddy point blank in the kidney with a paintball gun, and he was not exactly thrilled about it.