I am wondering if these guys are even for real

They are. Their events are getting bigger and better. There's a 24 HR game this weekend up by Paulden. I'm going.

Hello Lee - I'm a long time customer, sorry you weren't in last Saturday ("snowday!") but I understand.
I'm keen to know more about this idea of an airsoft field here in the Quad-cities, I really miss the paintball field "RTS" and I expect this project of yours will be hot !

"Alien Extraction X" is the next milsim challenge coming up, Feb 25 2015, multiple Agency teams trying to seize control of the crashed Extraterrestrial visitor in a great area out a little NW of Prescott.

http://tacticalairsoftguns.com/airsoftevents.html  is the page to visit for more details

Living in Prescott Valley, not formally on any team but I will help spread the word. I've got a new big RPK to deploy.

For fifty years of the Cold War the whole world counted Ukraine as a country, they had a full seat at the United Nations ...
I understand there are many nuances to the events in Ukraine, for the country of Ukraine - Putin of course is quoted as saying to Bush years ago "it's not even a real country...", which is much like Sadam Hussein claiming his right to invade Kuwait because it's "the 19th province of Iraq". Anyone can look back at the National Geographic pieces on Ukraine from several years ago and see that an East-West divide is real, but not any more so than the tensions here in the USA - the difference is having Moscow in their mix. 

I wonder where our lack of action originates ... we're sending Joe "shotgun" Biden to visit (as his son is handed a seat on the board of directors for the largest Ukrainian fuel company) and the Pentagon is taking weeks to deliver a planeload of MRE's ... bandages, maybe, after September ...

A dozen years ago a chain of socio-political events began with the Serbians throwing out Milosevic, next the "Rose Revolution" revitalizing Georgia and then the Orange revolution or Maiden movement in Ukraine, these were the darlings of American and West European liberals, intellectuals and socialists.

Yes the Maiden movement includes groups with ties to anti-Soviet militias/resistance that date back to WW2, the "fascists" that Putin and the Separatists loath, but how can Americans fail to sympathize with folks who resisted Lenin and Stalin after what they did to Ukraine ?

Mazy's in Chino Valley has a decent selection this week.

Good to know Bob, thanks - with the caveats, from the same source, that it's less than 7 guns per 100 people AND only 3.5% are rifles (which I suppose includes rimfire .22's), most are shotguns so they have duck hunters and rabbit hunters but very few deer hunters, and little lethality beyond a 75 yards at best ... in comparison my fellow Americans have 110 MILLION rifles, plus 86 million shotguns AND 114 million handguns !!! As of 2012 surveys indicate 34% of American households have one or more firearms, thank you Founding Fathers !!!

Everybody here in AZ should come out to the Big Sandy Machine Gun Shoot in April - my Youtube channel DreadnoughtAdventure includes some footage.