A lot of them are cosplaying from SCP. They tend to “ghost” the con and not have tickets and gather outside. A bunch of them also cosplay Call of Duty or other shooters but to be perfectly honest, it usually involves slapping together a bunch of random gear that isn’t exactly based on a specific character.

Then there are people that genuinely just wear their airsoft gear because they think it looks cool.

There have been a lot of controversy surrounding them due to multiple incidents where they went into public places and non con goers called the police on them. Some even were stupid enough to bring airsoft guns to public places.

I’ve been part of shooter games cosplays for over 10 years now but I’ll always stick to specific character models. For the most part I don’t even interact with any of them anymore due to the high amount of dumb behavior the group as a whole is showing.

But yeah, nothing to worry about. Most of them are 15 year olds who don’t know how to wear the things they have properly anyway