Tommikka

For Airsoft : Possession is no offence By accidentally modifying it you could have committed an offence unless your intent is to play Airsoft skirmishing at an insured site Plus, nobody will care But you’ve mentioned a ‘blank gun’ Thats a firearm A firearm is not an imitation so bright two tones are irrelevant to the VCRA and are just to avoid you being shot by the police Don’t take it out in public

Excellent if that’s the case - no it is not normal to superglue together. But are you sure it’s superglue? Something that’s more appropriate would be thread locker, which is used to avoid joins unscrewing from vibration or general use There could also be a seal created with liquid PTFE If it’s PTFE or a suitable level of thread lock then it should be possible to unscrew with some brute force But if it’s a higher level of thread lock then heat followed by brute force are required However - before applying brute force ensure that there isn’t a hidden clip you have missed and that any tools used are decent quality and the correct size (metric and imperial sizes can seem close but might not be good enough) You don’t want to be shredding and rounding off parts of the remote line fittings due to a bad fit The first thing to do check that there isn’t a missing o ring at the tip etc The following shows a run through of a common remote line type, but if you can post up a picture pointing at the leak then that would be handy

There’s a Ukranian special forces anti tank division uniform up for sale in my local auction tonight

For the approvals testing of First Strike shaped paintballs in 2016 they were measured/tested for ‘lethality’ and ‘frangibility’ by a specialist (Ordnance test solutions) I don’t know the full details on testing, and am working from my memories of the feedback publicised….. This included ballistic gel & strawboard (I don’t know the thickness) plus high speed cameras https://m.facebook.com/UKPSF/posts/1175569275892475 You could use similar things to measure impact such as bare ballistic gel and measure any depth of impact (but then need a baseline to understand what level of energy is indicated between ‘bounce’ and depth of penetration A hard target plus sensors can measure impact energy, with appropriate calibration, and there’s a name that I can’t think of for ‘impact stickers’ that tell you if a set impact has been exceeded (used when transporting specialist sensitive stuff) Chronographs could be used at set distances, but you want them to be well placed for any ‘reliable’ results so that the BB/projectile passes at the right point Ultimately a series of synchronised high speed cameras can capture the time it passes each position, then turn that into velocity and then to the energy for that projectile On a legal basis if the muzzle velocity is within limits for the given size/mass then the impact energy is equal to or less than the muzzle velocity (Unless someone shoots you almost directly downwards and hits your thigh - that gives a combined result of the muzzle velocity plus gravity and a multicoloured thigh) (edited for my half sentence)

There were a number of cases of armed police called to children with BB guns. One particular case involved one who’s reaction to the polices arrival was to pull out his toy pistol to show them. The armed officer then had to live with the situation that only due to his moments hesitation to shoot a child prevented him from having to live with the situation of killing a child with a toy There was also the similar case of the drunken Scotsman with a table leg being shot dead during the IRAs London bombing campaign He had been reported as having a suspicious Irish accent and sawn off shotgun wrapped in a carrier bag When challenged by armed police he found it funny, raised his table leg and they didn’t hesitate

You aren’t being an old granny The toy industry isn’t taking the piss, I would hazard a guess that this is some basic cheap shop pushing cheap and nasty imports, or a basic convenience shop with their cheap and nasty corner. Trading Standards ought to be interested, as I dare say these water guns aren’t CE certified(or whatever we are supposed to be adopting now post Brexit), which for a water gun will be minor and might not be TS top priority, but it’s bound to have other non compliant cheap crap. (Not to forget the unlimited fine a retailer could face for a non VCRA compliant RIF sale) The orange tip makes it obvious that these are not made for the UK market. UK airsoft retailers aren’t always taking the VCRA seriously themselves - otherwise you wouldn’t have retailers pushing JustCos or trying to get buyers to claim they are reenactment military vehicle owners Some see it the VCRA as a nuisance that loses themselves sales against others who turn a blind eye rather than protection from the offence they could commit

@RohanAlex123 It is best to fill a cylinder on its own (as you appear to have done as you have asked if you should have had the gun regulator connected) As per the video linked above…… if the ‘high’ burst disk had blown then that would relate to having had the cylinder over pressurised. as your ‘low’ burst disk has blown then that means too much pressure was coming out of the regulator The cylinders regulator should only be letting air out in the hundreds of psi but unless you had any equipment fitted no air should have been coming out Assuming you didn’t have a remote line etc connected then I would guess that the regulator failed and out the full pressure that you were filling - this matches your description of the ‘low’ 1800psi burst disk failing at up to 2000psi of fill Assuming it was a new cylinder then the regulator was faulty - go straight back to the retailer (don’t just replace the burst disk - there is a reason why it failed) What was your fill source? If it was a proper HPA compressor, filtered and maintained then I would still be blaming a faulty regulator If if was a ‘home’ compressor system, or an unfiltered system then I’d be less sure and would then consider that the system was contaminated, clogged the regulator and caused the regulator to fail. The regulator would need a complete rebuild by a competent person Another possible source of contamination is a dirty fill nipple. If you don’t have one then I’d recommend getting a nipple cover to keep it safe until filling If it wasn’t new then burst disks can fail, but still remember the regulator has failed and needs to be investigated Take a life lesson that high pressure air is to be respected, your burst disk has done its job (consider it as a pressure fuse), and keep skin clear from burst disks when filling just in case …… if can be scary, but your bottle didn’t blow up Many many years ago there were a couple of actual bottle explosions which had a combination of factors contributing to them. A couple of weeks after an actual explosion I was in proximity to the blowing of a ‘high’ burst disk when someone filled a 3000psi on the 4500psi fill station - everyone ran & then slowly walked back to give him grief How were you filling? This runs through how to fill, with the exception that of filling from empty it’s advisable to stop / start a couple of times to avoid too much heating

This will vary between sites & organisers There is no explicit minimum age in the UK to play, and it will generally be controlled by the sites insurance and any ‘special activity’ that the site may cover For example a site game organiser may allow juniors on their site but if they also run a special event elsewhere such as booking an MoD training establishment might up the age to adults only It can also depend on what you mean by MilSim. It means different things to different people, and even then there are different levels ‘Standard’ airsoft might look like MilSim from the outside but the average skirmish on the average site will be a mix of the local people, some in full dress up mode with all the gear and being a ‘ninja operator’, some in jeans & t shirt and anything inbetween ’Events’ are run to a format and are more likely to attract the ‘MilSimmer’ but May also get average people Events may have equipment available to hire - but it depends on the organiser ‘FilmSim’ is much more serious in the look and play style and some guy in jeans & t shirt won’t be welcome unless there’s some form of insurgency faction The best option is to go to a local skirmish, contacting the site beforehand to ensure you can hire for the day and get to see what the others use To buy your own black guns / RIFs you need to be 18 and to have established a ‘defence’ to the VCRA such as UKARA membership via playing at a participating site the required number of times. A Junior can legally be ‘gifted’ a RIF by an adult who qualifies (get some games in and start writing your birthday / Xmas list)

I have blown myself up more than once …… not necessarily in a game environment I concur that the primary thought whilst pyro is hissing in your hand is to remove it from your proximity ….. and preferably before it stops hissing

As per the other thread ….. …. valid defences for buying a black gun / RIF include airsoft skirmishing and reenactment (among some others) The MVT covers membership as a reenactor in the Military Vehicle Trust, airsoft skirmishing is normally ‘proven’ by playing three times at an airsoft site and gaining site membership with UKARA registration Ask the shop why they are asking you to conspire to commit fraud to justify their quicker sale rather than you taking the required time to play - they are probably worried that you will learn more about airsoft and buy something else from someone else

The distinction between ‘black’ and ‘two tone’ applies to the VCRA as ‘RIF’ and ‘IF’ The seller is responsible under the VCRA if they sell a RIF without establishing a valid use (‘defence’) As you have told the seller that you intend to play airsoft it’s very fishy that they have suggested the MVT Unless you told them that you are a reenactor then they look to be attempting to involve you in a fraudulent conspiracy. Why would you join the MVT as a re-enactor / military vehicle owner if your intent is to play airsoft?

The all the gear no idea speedsoft run is a bit of a losing tactic But as we don’t die, but just have to walk back a bit, there’s method in the madness —— if they are running around with some purpose of course If eliminations matter then you won that engagement If someone gained some ground, or finally stoped you dominating an area then they won the engagement But if they enjoyed the exercise and you enjoyed eliminating them then everyone’s a winner

A core part of airsoft is dressing up to play soldiers If you want to play ‘most effectively’ then watch the speedsofters and aim for practicality & effectiveness But there will be the larping side of dressing up and having the ‘right’ equipment,the streamlined quick & efficient speedsoft and somewhere in between With pistols it’s hard to bear the natural pointing capability. At playable ranges the slightly experienced player should be able to point approximately where it’s going to hit without great use of sights If you are going to try and be the great one shot ninja then you should put the time in with practice under various conditions to understand the relationship between weapon, sight, bb and weather But the important part is fun - ensure that however you play that you can leave smiling

From that demo video it’s a coded ‘capture the flag/base’ or ‘defuse the bomb’ Nothing wrong with that in itself It could be put into a game format by adding elements to the mission of identifying the code (clues, cards to be collected with part of the code on each), finding the device, getting it to a location, entering the code There are many of these around Rather than an app that has to run on a smart device which means risking it. That can be also run on an arduino - you just need a keypad and display There are plenty of examples across the web with builds and code (with pretty much your example available off the shelf) To make it more interesting I would recommend a consequence for the wrong code - eg 3 fails and you’ve lost / blown up / alarm sounded and/or a continuity function eg there is a maximum time limit (the full game time) it initiates as neutral, the first hit of that button or successful code ‘captures’ the device for a selected side, the second renders it neutral The final result is then - reds held for 5 minutes, blues held for 4:45 The continuity function is similar to a chess clock. Timing begins on the first hit, then it gets recaptured on each click Simple device An enhancement is to add in more than two sides, lights and sounds, a consequence alarm or pyro trigger etc

Because his parents didn’t go to the papers with sad face ?

One careful rogerborg who has driven it to the church hall twice a week …… for drifting around the car park

Was it Woderwick, or was he weleased before he got the chance to make any final speeches?

It depends on the purpose of the training activity A lot of companies want to sell super special training systems to governments at great expense (and they do) complete with equipment that replicates the real weapons, but to put the lesson in practice they don’t need to use a real looking / real style operating gun. If they want close up activities and the consequence of feeling a bit of pain then paintball delivers that It may have been a conscious decision to use paintball over Airsoft, or it could just be what was easily available

I have not been to Benidorm, don’t and have never lived in the West Midlands but have been out and about there more than once. To my best recollection I had not been involved with any Pauline’s in the 2000s/2010s Honest …… Call it Cardiff, Wiltshire or Dover/Calais ferries the in the 90s to 2000s and I wouldn’t be so sure

We’ve been through worse in the UK Recognise it for what it is - a BB gun, that is not a toy made it’s way into the hands of a child with uncontrolled access Either fraudulently bought, or negligently passed on There may have been responsible access originally but kids do stupid things Keep this case in the back of your mind whenever posts come up asking for tricks to bypass the VCRA, and condemn stupid things that occur

He didn’t shoot people - he facilitated it - Junior arms dealer bringing in guns for his friends to shoot people

Need something a bit more professional …

Spot on. Not a lot of people realise that the police can pick it up and test fire with anything A major win for airsoft when the redefinition was drafted This is the key point - the police, Home Office & Border Force have had a good relationship with the UKPSF and we are reliant on the ‘intention’ of the law and that something doesn’t make it to court, or that dickhead-ism gets prosecuted on other points A change in political view or the wrong case could go very badly None - and worse than that in the old days, Scottish paintball sites were constantly raided for unlicensed section 5 firearms because the definintion of an airgun didn’t cover CO2 This is a term that I very much dislike. It sounds like we are hiding something with secret words I get very hot under the collar when spotty teenagers try to tell me it’s not a ‘paintball gun’ but a ‘marker’ and that I should learn my history because ‘they have always been called markers’ They were ‘paint marking guns’ and ‘paint marking pistols’, which fired paint to actually mark items. We fire a coloured gelatine that rubs off ’Marker’ is very much a PC term that comes from the US in the late 80s/90s to ‘disassociate’ from the gun nuts so that mums will let their kids play ….. and then had bloodthirsty team names

We keep saying “frangible”, but are referring to “lethality” and “lethal barrelled weapon/air weapon” For example first strikes only became ungrey when official testing was paid for and they were fully assessed for “lethality” (First strikes are a half sphere paintball with a plastic ‘fin’ on the back, looking a bit like an airgun pellet