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Originally Posted by Brian McIlmoyle
Finding and airsoft gun with enough iron in it to support it's own weight will be a larger challenge
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Seconded. Most lower grade metal gas guns are made of pot metal with very little to no ferric content. Higher quality guns are made of aluminum. Some steel aftermarket parts are available such as outer barrels, chambers, etc are available in steel, but those parts wouldn't directly contact the magnets and the attraction would be weak. With a lot of stupidly powerful rare earth magnets, you may get something like that to hold, but the movement would cause the gun to release. What you'd need is an iron frame and slide, and neither exist in the airsoft world.
And really, to have a magnetic holster that would reliably hold up the weight of a steel gun (real steel or airsoft), the magnets would have to be so powerful that drawing the gun would require significant strength and would make the draw very slow and unnatural.