Tommikka

For UK legislation there is no difference between retail & second hand RIF sales If it was a sale within the UK then even a private seller is the one liable for a compliant VCRA RIF sale - the buyer should demonstrate a VCRA defence to justify the RIF sale, but it is the seller who is legally liable But Jersey is not part of the UK, therefore it would be an import and the importer (buyer) is responsible for justifying a RIF import This could be difficult and complicated

As a thread diversion - he was talked to by a couple of members of staff, and allowed to continue Noting that he took ‘care’ to clarify which areas were public vs private, and then decided to entirely disregard that when the path came to an end He also opted to film, highlight and publish the access controls which aids anti ‘audit’ claims of using auditing as an excuse to conduct hostile reconnaissance. Like many if not most auditors he says he is filming for general interest because he has seen their lorries around. Why not just be honest and open that it’s for YouTube monetisation ? …. and near the end a little bit of ignorance / bigging up that a container tamper seal means that it contains ‘high value’ goods. It just means that (provided you document the tag number) that the container hasn’t been opened since the last check

It’s a variant on ‘like’, equating to ‘nice one, cobber’ from our antipodean friends 🧀

Leave it as is - if he is asking you to retry paying because his funds are on hold then don’t. As noted by others let him know that it’s the PayPal process for new users etc He will need to send the item (tracked etc) Then when you have it, and don’t dispute anything PayPal will release the funds Let him know when you have it and are happy which complete with tracking could help him get funds released quicker If nothing progresses then pursue him & claim back for non delivery (Take screenshots of all messages, the transaction details etc)

They have closed your case in the sense that they are not actively pursuing your specific break in. That means the items are recorded ready for anything that turns up in their general business Closing the case has no bearing on whether or not the goods will be recovered at a later date - the information recorded has the potential to identify items found with someone as stolen Have a sensible conversion with your parents. How far would they have gone into a car break in with stolen goods? Some finger prints and recording the case with a potential flagging of the usual suspects? Or would they stop any explicit pursuit of a single break in on the basis that could direct to an offender after 24 hours would lead to someone who no longer has the goods? I note that you have made reference to ‘dark humour’ Dark humour laughs at the taboo, it doesn’t mean comparing the norm to the taboo. It also still needs to be funny, and for a joke to be funny it needs to have a twist, usually being close to the truth. Your NKVD reference would have only worked if the Met closed your case in 24 hours with the first person in sight, not that they aren’t actively pursuing.

PS Who suggested a ‘payment link’? This sets off more alarm bells. A scammer can produce dodgy links to harvest your PayPal password, your card/bank details etc There are valid ways and reasons for someone to create a specific PayPal invoice, or a general PayPal link, but these are also options for a scammer to produce fake links PayPal is designed for one PayPal user to pay another - the person sending a payment just needs the email address/phone number of the recipient PayPal invoices are designed for a business to produce an invoice but with the feature that the person sending payment does not have to have a PayPal account - you type in your card details - which is also a reason why fraudsters like to fake PayPal invoices

How easy is the same as asking how long a piece of string is There’s an example video below, but it depends on what RIF you have, and how practical you are - then what if it goes wrong (It’s a good learning experience to do your own maintenance / ‘upgrades’ etc - but the real lessons occur from finding out it doesn’t work any more - it’s useful to have spare RIFs that will work while you have a pile of non working parts) The specifics of the RIF type/manufacturer systems can vary, but first you’ll have to get to the workings without losing parts and keeping them organised to be able to put them back together Next get at the workings, without any parts dropping off or springing across the room Then deal with the ‘quick change’ spring itself Rebuild everything, see if it works, see if it has improved your situation https://youtu.be/cja3LZONbH0

Do be very cautious with sellers who tell you there’s a problem with your payment Private sellers are allowed to sell items - that’s the primary business for PayPal You do have the option of cancelling a payment - go to ‘activity’ and cancel the payment (make sure that you don’t use any links in messages to ensure you are on your real paypal account, and if you do cancel then don’t repay until you know for certain the money is back) If you paid on G&S with ‘airsoft gun’ in the description then that may be the cause. But another cause could be their account activity. The payment could also be on hold for a period of time to ensure that they send you your purchase and allowing you time to dispute before a scammer disappears Your two options at the moment would be to either cancel or leave it as their problem to resolve why the money is on hold

Always ‘goods & services’ - let PayPal have their fee for providing a payment processing service Only use ‘friends & family’ / ‘money owed’ for those types of payment https://www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/article/what-is-paypal’s-acceptable-use-policy-and-where-can-i-find-it-help270 PayPal do list firearms as prohibited, and airsoft was previously prohibited. Airsoft has been permitted as falling within localised legalities in PayPal Uk - but words in the transaction can trigger automated issues Check the specific wording on the ‘hold’ Is it money you have received from a sale and unable to withdraw? If payments have been made as fee free ‘friends and family’, but then a word triggered automatic attention / highlighted a sale then funds could be held due to a breach of the terms Different holds could also be due to high amount, new user etc as part of the protection (so that you aren’t a fly by night taking payment and withdrawing without supplying goods etc)

People would take their hits

Airsoft is exempted from the firearms act under the section 57a amendment which requires a plastic BB and be within 1.2 joules / 2.5 joules - approx 8 joules / A metal BB would no longer have the firearms act exemption, and therefore be an air weapon If still below 1.2 / 2.5 joules then it would be a low powered air weapon (within 6 ft lbs / 12 ft lbs - approx 8 / 12 joules) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/57A#:~:text=[F157AException for airsoft,the purposes of this Act.&text=(b)is not capable of,that exceeds the permitted level.&text=(c)does not exceed 8 millimetres in diameter.

Or perhaps because you would be firing an air weapon at a person and not playing airsoft skirmishing ?

On the matter of ‘joule creep’, as covered by most posters it is the change in muzzle energy that can result from firing a different projectile (The earlier rocket example forgets to take into account that a rocket carries its energy source, therefore continues to accelerate due to the continuous propulsion A BB flies down a barrel after an initial burst of energy combined with a cushion of air / gas pushing it up that barrel ………….. The hurty end when you get hit varies due to numerous factors, which include the rate at which energy drops away after leaving the barrel A bigger BB has more surface area to go up against air resistence A more dense BB could have the same surface area as a lighter less dense BB of an identical size Back spin etc changes the way the projectile flies, it would be expected to fly further/straighter, but how it maintains its energy is a matter of conjecture and science I’ve seen systems that impart spin which gain longer/straighter flight, but then suddenly drop and at range have little impact (side spin can also result in shooting around objects if you have the skills and practice) Impact sensors, additional chronographs, or high speed cameras could be used to measure velocity at different distances In ‘lethality’ testing ballistic gel is used to test the penetration upon impact

Good thoughts … and may bring back to the method and process depending on the type of and physics of the gas concerned ….. shaking, chilling, purging, single step, multi step fill etc We need an airsofting data geek to conduct some research on the number of shots per fill when conducted in each direction, purged / unpurged etc (I bet that someone has - and I also bet that there are different people who have done so with varying results !) In real life however, a cylinder probably lasts numerous games and each player probably gets the number of shots they need between games and fills and the specifics of the best / good enough fill become irrelevant to all but the most geeky

It depends - how much of fills are filled and used vs vented to chill and liquify etc I’m not too familiar with the science of airsoft gases, but with CO2 the ‘right way’ to fill was to expel some to chill the playing cylinder. This aided the CO2 filling at its liquid state, and would give an almost ‘known’ baseline The correct way was to also fill by weight, therefore expelling the current fill and being able to weigh the ‘empty’ cylinder (that’s what the ‘tare’ button on scales is for - to zero at the ‘unladen’ weight’) Once the cylinder is ‘empty’ you would then fill with chilled liquid co2 to the design weight But practice soon changes - the cylinders on a site would be at a known (or assumed) weight, and if you chill with a quick purge then fill to the combined known weight - or just fill for a rough burst of time - (what could go wrong at a rental site when just dropping in some co2 between each game ?) The fill staff would of course be operating a properly designed co2 fill station with appropriate protective gloves and eye wear. At least with HPA there are pressure gauges and the correct burst disks …. I did see recently about a mod on cutting down the valve stem inside a magazine based on the theory that a fill stops when the fill gets up to the end of the stem. So a long stem would only get about 1/3d of the magazines internal capacity, and a shorter stem would give more. My thought was - why not tip the magazine so the long stem was high up, the gas goes in, liquifies, and doesn’t ’fill over’ the end of the long stem?

Porn always leads the way

You might not be old Or you weren’t cool enough / as much as a mug (They didn’t last long, just a tiny blip in the ‘make things smaller’ era just before going to the ‘make things bigger’ era) ….. and the customer base was probably meant to be to fit in girly tiny ‘night out’ bags as opposed to overgrown boys pretending they had a spy gadget phone.

My old mother was taught text speak by my niece, and now has a smart phone and multiple ipads You don’t want to try and read an 80 year olds text speak that is sent via email, text message, facebook messenger and WhatsApp - all in one fractured conversation across numerous apps I’ll see your Nokia 3210 numeric keypad and raise you the Nokia 7280 ‘lipstick’ wheel pad I was the master of quick spin typing, aided by standard messages (yes, no, on my way etc) but also skilled in ‘spin & click’ across the alphabet to make real English words However my mates did take great joy in seeing how long it would take a back & forth text conversion to change to me phoning them back

It depends on what the letter states. Does it say that you need to provide a defence, or that it has been seized - which may or may not give next steps? As above posters have already commented, you want to give details on why your import is legitimate. (And similar to the details in the VCRA declaration forms) Your import is a RIF as per the VCRA Your defence is as an “airsoft skirmisher” with UKARA membership details (give your UKARA, and possibly your member site etc —— make sure that your UKARA address has not changed as that could be an issue and your UKARA had been checked and failed - if so then back that up with “first registered on date 123 at address abc and moved on date 234 to address xyz) Add anything useful to back up skirmishing as your use is to play airsoft skirmishing at the insured site x Back in the day I made my first VCRA import as a paintballer importing some 40mm shells for an underslung grenade launcher - I clearly had no UKARA defend and still do not. My declaration responses went along the lines of : Not a RIF For scenario paintball events (as both player and organiser) Gave my paintball UKPSF membership Name of our team as event organisers and named the sites/events coming up to play (((I had actually forgotten that I had added a cheap BB shooting dummy launcher as part of the order which I was giving away to an airsofter, so declaring not a RIF could have potentially failed me))) My declaration was accepted, but have no idea as to whether they accepted “not a RIF” or accepted my multiple declared paintball elements This however was only just as the VCRA came into force, and was before people began to come back with scare stories of imports seized and destroyed Stick to being nice and providing a VCRA defence

You would need to make contact with the carrier who is handling the package at customs That may or may not be the international carrier that it was sent via If the tracking identifies the location it is at then you may be able to find contact details. Check your email junk / spam folders to see if you have been sent anything that has been missed Take a look at the thread here : There are examples of VCRA declarations, but carriers appear to have moved to e-forms now

It’s unlikely (but not impossible) that the police visit will result in your UKARA being confirmed and the original released We can’t advise on an actual way ahead, just try to ensure that customs get a VCRA declaration for the current one You can be pro-active to a degree, but need it to match at least the tracking reference - It is only an assumption that you failed the VCRA check due to lack of matching UKARA details / failing to have a VCRA declaration - it could have stopped for any reason. (Over powered/no power declaration, no VCRA declaration, bad customs declaration by the sender*, or even that the customs officer didn’t like the look of it) * bad declarations in the past such as toy, product sample, value $0.01 etc seem like old Chinese sellers doing a favour to avoid import charges but they are false declarations - and it’s you as importer who are liable - a grumpy customs official can instantly seize

Simple - you just need to not care

Note that the ‘customs police’ don’t exist You were visited by the police following notification by customs Telling you that you ‘may be arrested’ for another import pretty much means the same as now - the police may turn up again. (But tell the solicitor that) The invoice was probably not looked at, most RIF imports are handled as an administrative process. As your current tracking has held up, call and enquire about a VCRA declaration. (Don’t complain about your previous one in this call - or speak to a solicitor first) Note - As your previous one just stopped until the police arrived it was potentially waiting for a form but you didn’t get it and didn’t respond - there also may be many other reasons for seizure

Solicitor With many you can get a free initial consultation session (don’t confuse this with ‘no win no fee’ - which translates to lose and it costs you) They can advise you properly on the specifics of your case and either give you direction or represent you if needed) …..

Are you sure that you're not worried that they’re touching your new gear with their sticky fingers over there?