Tommikka

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?

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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?

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You’ve mentioned why it would/could matter. If something was to change appearance in such a way that an IF became a RIF then it would be heading towards manufacturing a RIF’ (Which in itself isn’t a customs matter, but the action of doing so could be a VCRA matter) A bolt wouldn’t change appearance. A magazine probably wouldn’t - but many so called two tones aren’t even 50% bright, so arguably a black magazine could turn some IFs into RIFs However in the majority of cases the contents are not being looked at. The incoming package flags as something that may contain airsoft stuff, could be due to the originator business or the customs declaration - or a random pull ((((don’t apologise for adding to an existing thread - some forum users call it necroposting to add to an old thread - but this is the whole point of a forum and using a relevant thread keeps content together minimising repetition and maximises collation of knowledge & advice))))

I’m somewhere inbetween A nice cleanup session is rewarding, but I also will just give a rough run down and throw in the cupboard With mine there is some method in my madness knowing what is built like an AK47 (including my AK47s) and knowing what needs loving care and attention with a strip down and regrease. However I do also have so much kit that if something doesn’t shoot then I probably have plenty more with me (I’ve probably brought them to keep switching to shoot something else anyway) General kit is probably being dipped in the bath after me, then subject to a wash later. But there have been a few occasions of the stinky bin bag in the back of the car for days As I don’t play often, I am however more likely to be up a friends land pre-testing a week or so before

Check if your (external) IP is changing or remaining as allocated when you restart your router : whatismyipaddress.com You may find that Virgin are leaving the same IP no matter how much you try to reset If using a phone then turn off WiFI so that you only have the mobile providers allocated IP Then retry a check of what the IP is and retry the site Also try connecting elsewhere - connect to a public WiFI and try their IP allocations It may be a direct block of you, and the site may have blocked a specific IP or every IP that you have previously connected with Or it may be a coincidence and the IP range is blocked rather than you, if this is the case then no matter how often you get a new IP it would be likely to be in a blocked range As noted by others, VPNs can be an option, but their country and / or ranges may be blocked. You can experiment with UK VPN addresses as opposed to the default VPN option of pretending to be in a different country

501st legion spotted leaving comicon before closing time (Guest / featured Cosplayers have different rules than traders) The cosplay competition finals generally trigger the end of comicon rather than the official closing as it’s one of the attractions

They aren’t, nor are they providing PLI to members. It’s entirely ‘nod, nod, wink, wink’ and a for them to sell RIFs to non airsofters and charge people more for a non defence They even claimed on their website to ‘partner’ with a comicon organiser who had RIFs banned from their events The refund I eventually got was for being ‘too stupid’ to understand that it was a load of bollocks due to asking awkward questions about insurance

For any rayguns held by the 501st legion - every raygun is based on a real firearm, based on the original Star Wars props being anything they had in the studio props …. keep your eyes out for Bristol news over the weekend UKGF don’t tend to attract the idiots, and they do put out good guidelines on not being an idiot, but as we are pretty much in central Bristol this weekend extra reminders have been posted

For someone of the Walkman era, followed by gigs, festivals and clubs prior to playing with pyro (we’ll gloss over having Salisbury plain as my play ground and hunting dropped blanks to play with and blow stuff up) my ears are a lost cause If you are young / have good hearing then keep it that way Therefore use some form of hearing protection will help preserve hearing - (even the most basic foam will take the edge off) Be more careful indoors, open your mouth whenever near something about to go bang Avoid sites that will let people use high powered pyro indoors. When I began to play the norm was mk9s. But mk5 is perfectly fine, and if you cant hear that then your hearing is worse than mine Do bear in mind that the design of a piece of pyro contributes to its sound effect. Enolas Dr John can do very clever things with designing the chemical mix for explosive effect on how quickly / slowly it bangs, and then couple that with how packed the grenade is / how it directs the blast through the ‘tube’ and one way / two way blast A ‘lesser’ explosive can appear to pack a harder punch, and indoors is very different to the woods - not only being open / enclosed but also hard / soft surfaces bouncing or absorbing the blast/noise

Private or from a commercial business retail customer ? Though your ‘not sure if they knew’ would imply even via a business that they were sent in standard post, without markings etc as opposed to a limited authorised method with markings

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Veni, vidi, discessi

Some people want themes, some want gadgets, some want a basic shoot out, some want to sneak about, some want to gain kill points, some capture points, some find random parts to compile as a super weapon, some want that super weapon to actually function Some want to dress up, some count the stitches, some throw on some surplus, some wear jeans & a t shirt Some want to spend four hours crawling to a bush, then hide in it until the whistle blows Some want to run around the woods, some want to rope into a warehouse, some want to sneak around the back service corridors of a shopping centre You would think that the common factor is to go out and shoot people, but some people just want to hang around for a chat and tweak guns

Shooting on a range will be fine At 10 he won’t be able to play at standard sites, but there could be local sites that have junior play, perhaps with laser for min impact etc. Or they may be happy for visits on their range Shooting in your garden may or may not be fine One risk of home shooting is being overlooked ‘with a gun’ and getting reported resulting with an armed response Another is disturbing neighbors and reported as antisocial (not illegal, but continued acts can result in ASBOs and the breach of an ASBO is an offence) Talking to neighbours deals with that - and stopping if they aren’t happy The remaining is the discharge of an airweapon within proximity of a road, footpath etc. Those would be an offence None of the above relate to your encounter, so just decide if garden shooting is suitable Now ‘prevent’ Being reported does not mean anything is wrong Prevent is to enable minor individual factors to be noticed which could add up to a risk, such as being open to radicalisation etc You have given the flags in your post: ADHD - this may make an individual more at risk of being targeted and influenced (It could also make those less likely depending on the individual) Interests of history and war - pretty normal - but could be flags and exploited Politics is a bit more niche for an 10 year old, but a fair interest to have and also could be exploited (Be wary of having fathered the next William Hague - he was a speaker to the Conservative conference at 16) There is nothing wrong with his interests. But he is young and these give areas that someone could exploit and push to radicalise. (History and politics as interests can also result in self radicalisation) None of the above, nor a report to prevent mean anything is a risk to your son, and does not mean you are radicalising him. It means that someone felt the need to make a report. That is most likely to come to nothing more than being spoken to If a concern of being more open, then forms of counselling can be available to balance away from radical areas https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-help-if-youre-worried-about-someone-being-radicalised#what-happens-when-a-person-is-referred-to-prevent