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Laws: If it is a UK legal airsoft gun as defined in Firearms legislation then only the VCRA applies to the type of RIF/IF The VCRA requires a defence to import RIFs. Eg airsoft skirmishing. One method of proving that is the UKARA, and that is recognised by the Home Office/Border Force etc UKARA is a third party retailer scheme, under which players are registered via site membership schemes If its an IF then no defence is required The other concern is financial, and whether import VAT or import duty are required, which relate to the item classification and value In the Eurotunnel/Euro shuttle there may be carriage policies. They require firearms to be declared, all the relevant documentation and that it is secured https://www.eurotunnel.com/uk/legal/carriage-of-firearms-and-fireworks/ As hinted above an airsoft gun used to be a ‘low power air weapon’, but a revised definition was made in firearms legislation which took UK legal airsoft guns out of that definition. Euro tunnel may or may not treat it as an air weapon / firearm. If they do then you could carry it but needed to declare it They might or might not. That’s the game that smugglers play with Border Force. They may randomly check, check on a targeted basis or check that things are in accordance with declarations If by ‘the car that you brought it in’ you mean that you have taken a RIF abroad and are returning then they may still check. You would not owe import VAT or import duty as you have taken something out and returned - but if it looks new and you didn’t declare it when exporting then they may charge you for an import If you are unable to justify why you are importing a RIF, and can’t show ‘intent to use it at insured skirmishing sites’ then it could be confiscated

Paintball guns are ‘low powered air weapons’ (and fire frangible projectiles) Airsoft guns were, but there was an amendment to firearms legislation in which if they fall within the new definition of IF / RIF including the joules limit then they are no longer air weapons under firearms legislation and are covered only by the VCRA

It doesn’t necessarily show in text but the intent of my posts was meant to be the opposite (valid strawman there of how you read them) on the basis that doing a CQB course could be: 1) Just a days out experience of doing doorkicking Nothing wrong with that in itself but it won’t give number 2 (I’ve watched person number one go left scanning their zone and person number two going right scanning their zone with both of them getting shot by the defender in the middle - just blinkered going through the motions) 2) Learning doorkicking & room clearing in context - why do this and that, and refined into gameplay situations - are you happy to sacrifice yourself for difficult clearance and quickly respawn or medic heal, or is it a major ballache to walk half a mile to the safe zone so you prefer a steady slow clearance My questions were aimed at how to choose training / experiences and what an individual wants out of it The speedsofters have skills to offer too. (Unless they have dressed up and are all the gear no idea running around in circles) then they are applying a tactic In paintball I’ve done some competitive tournaments, fun on those occasions but not my kind of thing to pursue or to put in the commitment to keep it up. However I still took part in training sessions to learn and relearn skills and to iron out bad habits from years in the woods. I’ve done a fair bit of doorkicking & CQB myself - run by training companies of ex soldiers, and also run some CQB sessions ourselves - close up, indoor & outdoor and in context of gameplay

That’s the thing. If it’s ‘eliminate everyone because it’s airsoft’ then 9/10 times the speedsofter will win. If I’ve designed the mission as ‘rescue the VIP’ then the speedsofter will fail the entire mission in two seconds, and the defenders will have the advantage over gamers who think they can stack up in doorways. The group who’ve prepared for rapid sacrificial CQB can draw out the defenders from their shadowy hiding spots and have one final player alive to bring out the VIP The conjecture with nothing to do with airsoft is about understanding the tactics - knowing why they are what they are and how to apply them to situations It’s also why there is a generation of ex soldiers with valid CQB experience. CQB isn’t just the realm of special forces, it was the bread and butter of quite a few ‘ordinary’ infantry for a few years recently clearing compounds and buildings.

1) Yes I can afford and can get hold of plenty pyro (However I do have a sponsorship relationship with a pyro company) 2) This is key, and reflects some of the earlier posters comments. What is ‘CQB training’ for? Playing games is different to real life, a rapid run through often wins and when it doesn’t you just go back and respawn Is the ‘instructor’ just going to teach and run through some drills, or are they going to teach the strategy behind those drills so that you can understand them and apply the right ones at the right time? Additionally the abundant use of pyro might actually be the wrong way to do it Why are you going in? Do you want to kill/eliminate everyone you encounter? Are there friendlies that may be coming in other doors? Are you rescuing someone? If you go too slow will the hostages get executed? If you go too fast will the hostages get caught in the crossfire? In real life - why are you bothering to do CQB when you could just bomb the place and drive tanks over the rubble? The answer today would be because of the innocent civilians, the answer in Stalingrad was that by destroying the city without immediately defeating the Russians inside it that the Germans created the perfect defences for the Russians to hide in

Some of these SAS urban reference photos will be less useful than others:

I’m more likely to be in jeans & t shirt, but when it comes to dressing up I have preferred to be with the underdog or bad guys. Couple this with my fondness for wood I have a few AK47s and historically would have been for Russia Being in Salisbury and being friends of a particular local family I’m not going to be representing anything Russian However if wearing something might upset a branch of Russian SF then I may be inclined to do so

You made a statement that turned out to be wrong On further research though, 50% of UK shootings were by a gun club member with legally owned pistols The other 50% were also with a legally owned pistol but took place (probably) before gun clubs existed and about 50 years before the push to encourage organised shooting ranges for the general public to improve capability ready for whenever the Army needs more people for warfare https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:School_shootings_in_the_United_Kingdom

Well, the most obvious / significant / possibly only school shooting in the UK resulted in many measures including the banning of most handguns and further controls on getting a firearms certificate was conducted by the member of a gun club.

There is no such thing as ‘stolen valor/valour’ in the UK There is ‘walting’ ((There are parts of the Armed Forces Act that cover using uniforms to impersonate the services, and fraud legislation for the undercurrent of what someone is up to - eg conning people)) You get the ‘out rage’ clubs and walt hunting hobbiests, but they may be looked on as more sad than some of the ‘walts’ they hunt down. (Eg local care in the community individual that likes to wear a beret being hunted down and ‘exposed’ by keyboard warriors Any ‘normal’ service person or ex service person doesn’t care about people who dress up to play games (actually they care about the ones who pay extra on eBay for their kit) They do care about people who are bigging themselves up as someone they aren’t, or are conning with fake ‘hero’ charities (or ‘real’ hero charities with excessive ‘admin expenses’) As far as airsoft is concerned if you aren’t allowed to wear patches then why to you need RIFs? The entire justification to add an extra skirmisher defence by statutory instrument above the explicit defences in the core VCRA legislation is for the realistic immersion. Dressing up has been recognised as a core element to airsoft. Take that away to a bare uniform without patch’s and you can just use a coloured IF Don’t be a dickhead and pretend that you are something that you aren’t Do dress up with good ‘fancy dress’ if that’s what you like to do Don’t make yourself a personal security risk * * our paintball team logo is based on a genuine US unit. One of our founder members is a former Royal Marine and our original clothing came from a company who does unit clothing. If you don’t look at the detail it looked like a unit t shirt etc. I warned off a team mate on the way to a game. We stopped off at a garage, and he walked back out in ‘unit style’ t shirt, DPM trousers, boots, with short haircut, newspaper tucked under his arm, coffee in hand …… coming out of a garage at a garrison town. Perfect fodder for an opportunist. Even for someone who is going to pick someone to monitor and watch the individual and their car, follow them the next morning driving onto a military base - a ‘confirmed’ valid target with little awareness A soldier ought to be briefed on current alert states, any local risks and being aware of their surroundings. A bloke out for a sunday game has no idea what current risks are to service personnel and has little awareness Only if you’re prepared to buy my lunch when I trump your cadet corporal rank slide with my DCGS challenge coin On a sensible note - I’d recommend that anyone who wears uniform for a real purpose doesn’t go out playing in their work uniform, unless you have plenty of sets. Just more washing to get yourself back to standard after playing in the woods (Of course combat uniform is meant to get battered and dirty - but you try saying that when you walk into barracks or the cadet hut in a dirty crumpled uniform)

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The answer is probably in their one other post that they are unable to message a seller. @Nubby Forums are intended to be areas for discussion with like minded individuals. Classifieds are an additional feature for the members of a forum. I don’t know what the underlying system rules are but would recommend using the forum, put up some posts. But if you’re just interested in shopping then the flippant answer is that you can go to retailers websites and shop there.

Cheese Because dairy products are very popular in Asia …… according to the UK/Japan trade deal

The bad news is that at a guess I’m going to say that cylinder is not UK legal, and if it’s legal where you are I would still be questionable about its safety It’s a flat based metal (aluminium?) cylinder, which would have a maximum working pressure of 3000psi - approx 200bar If correctly stamped it will have a maximum test pressure which will be beyond 3000psi - and must not be filled to that The neck will have the standards markings stamped into it (assuming they are honest about it having met those standards) Assuming everything is good: The top of the cylinder will have a plastic cap, remove that and you should find threads inside The regulator is upside down in your photo. The threaded end at the top of the photo should have some gaps in the threads - that is a safety feature so that if it somehow begins to unscrew while under pressure the air can escape safely before the regulator flies off Screw that end into the cylinder Do not use any thread locker - just screw it on You should tighten it to a specified torque - if the documentation and markings are there then the cylinder and regulator should have a torque setting provided If all is good then you fill it using the nipple under the yellow cap The end that we can see has a pin in the centre. That is the pin valve which will release the air when in use To use it for airsoft you will most likely need a remote airline with the appropriate connections on either end Depending on the gun you will be using, and the output pressure of the regulator you will probably need another regulator to step down to the guns working pressure - check out the other threads on here about HPA systems

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Possibly, possibly not UKARA is the airsoft industries retailer scheme and the most recognised defence. A retailer just needs to be confident regarding prosecution under the VCRA that it was reasonable that the buyer intends to play airsoft skirmishing. (Or are a museum, part of a reenactment society or making theatrical / film use) IPSC is about practical target shooting, so it is not a requirement to have the realistic element of a RIF and could make do with a two tone IF But if a retailer is happy then you can use IPSC If importing then I’d recommend playing safe with UKARA as there are many reasons that a RIF could be intercepted so it’s better to stick with the ‘main’ scheme

I’m going to guess that the compressor produces around 150psi Not enough to generate decent pressure for a bottle, and would need additional filtering to avoid contamination

That’s interesting to know - but I also have not had any use of a CB since probably the 90s My CB memories are: 1) All my uncles had them in Orkney and would gather in kitchens playing the fiddle & accordion across the airwaves 2) Sat on the driveway in someone’s dad or big brothers car annoying truckers. They never wanted to talk to annoying teenage boys, but they stayed on the channel when we had teenage girls with us. (Which begs the question as to why we were playing with CBs when sat in cars with teenage girls 3) Pre mobile phones we once ended up sat in a truckers cab whilst he tried to raise someone on the CB who could access a phone and call out the AA to a car breakdown

A Ham foundation licence allows up to 10 watts. That won’t be needed to keep contact with a group day out, but will help for James’ ambitions of taking up Amateur radio as a shared family hobby too Breaker breaker, 19, Smokey’s eating doughnuts off the A303 * * of course Ham operators don’t go in for that, they are the ‘serious’ side of radio hobby’s

*** Note that the Ham foundation licence allows you to operate in the specified frequencies ‘unsupervised’, it might not cover you handing radios to your friends if they don’t have a licence unless you can be treated as ‘supervising’ them under the foundation The small business licence can be used as a group and you can hand out radios or allow others to operate a radio on the frequencies under your licence umbrella PMR can be used by anyone

The most common licence used in airsoft for these types of radio is the Small business licence, with no exam required - £75 for 5 years https://secure.ofcom.org.uk/busrad/ Or there is the foundation HAM licence, which is free once you have a pass certificate from the Radio Society exam costs £27.50 Free training resources - courses or self study: https://www.essexham.co.uk/train/ Radio society exam: https://rsgb.org/main/rsgb-examination-booking/ OfCom Ham licence applications: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/manage-your-licence/radiocommunication-licences/online-licensing-service The business licence is the next easiest route after PMR, the Ham foundation is the second cheapest (legal) route after true PMR

There’s not much money in programmable props. Some get put up for sale, but they are unlikely to make the money in relation to the work. Any site or organiser will either do it themselves or bung some cash/free games at a teenage geek marshal / player. There is a member on here who has been selling off the code for some arduino props He gives you the design, you build it and he sells you the encoded code - in hex so that you don’t reverse engineer it, and you have to keep getting new code for new designs https://airsoft-forums.uk/profile/23791-martinius96/ Was the existing code you bought encoded and owned by the author or do you have the source code? If so then I’d recommend using that as your bare bones If not then I’d recommend looking around for some similar open source designs, having a test run and then tweaking it to your needs. Don’t get bogged down worrying about the programming language itself. Design & document 3 things: The game modes - and their rules The props buttons and gadgets - and how they function in the modes The flow of how these run ….. that flow then documents the decision points that the software needs to do Then using a piece of source code tweak it for the buttons & electronics you’re using & and the actions/modes you want Otherwise you’re going to have to find the unicorn who wants to share with you or pay someone such as Martinius to write for your design @@@@@@@@@@@ We have a series of functioning props built and programmed by our electronics guy. Shortly before lockdown I bought an old commercial prop box in auction and fixed some of its issues. Then without a manual by pressing every possible button combination I worked out its mode programming. To follow that as a lockdown project I designed a series of props and game modes, took some online sample code and step by step customised to my components, sensors and modes The ‘right’ way to program is to be efficient and if selling code/props then you want each to have enough functions to be interesting but not too many to give it all in one. My way is for experimentation and to have a big all encompassing master prop that does everything and can be upgraded along the way, accompanied by a series of baby props with specific physical functions and as close as possible to the master code. That’s inefficient in programming terms, but I can update the software across the range

It’s good to think of the implications According to the epilepsy society 1% of people have epilepsy, and 3% of them have photo sensitive epilepsy. Within that 0.03% of people (or 5% of children/young people) - 0.05% of youngsters But non sufferers could be disorientated or unwell (Bearing in mind of course that the intent of strobes in a game is to disorient others) There might be no effect at all on a photosensitive epileptic depending on the strobe frequency/pattern https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/epileptic-seizures/seizure-triggers/photosensitive-epilepsy We’ve used strobes as players at some events - underground / indoor / night games etc and also used ‘strobing’ pyro (the scientists may disagree with the simplification that it’s effectively a flash bang that sets of a series of pulses rather than one bright bang) As players we’ve only used them with organisers permission - either in the event rules or confirmed it’s OK Ideally a photosensitive epileptic will identify themselves to organisers - (have you ever read the disclaimer forms that you sign or the ticket booking small print?) An organiser would allow / disallow on the basis of what they know of the site, and of the players. The greater risk is possibly players running into walls or tripping due to disorientation For brightness our eyes have the natural protection of blinking, and even with lasers as long as they are UK / CE legal there should be no or negligible risk of blinding someone in game play unless you hold them down and prise their eyes open ((We’ve used strobes mainly as dropping a torch in a corridor etc to distract people’s attention or make it hard for them to see whether they can get through it - then shooting them while they stand confused)

Rhetorical question of course - “where do I get it serviced?” You get it serviced through the specialist supplier that you bought it from, possibly as part of the maintenance contract along with the initial purchase …… unless you bought it from a generic Asian exporter. In the olden days most goods were sold with the expectation of support, nowadays in retail most goods are throwaway - you might get sold the extended warranty but often the fashion or technology changes and you replace it before the warranty runs out. If you do buy a warranty then you replace it the day after the warranty runs out when it breaks This wears away at all the tech support there used to be in every town. Now businesses rely on specialist businesses giving the support they will need when they need it. There might be only one company - even one person, who can do the support in that area of the country

Have a look in your account profile for your attachment quota. The limit is not the size of individual files, but the combined total of all your attachments. https://airsoft-forums.uk/attachments/ You probably had about 14mb available this morning and now just have 2mb left after the 12mb file An alternative is to host the file elsewhere then link it eg upload to YouTube, set it as unlisted and share the direct link