Tommikka

I didn’t want to go into 2 hours of streaming, but I’ve ended up doing so My key thoughts on a points that he or his listeners brought up are: Advisory/guidance or legislation: Its not guidance. He does get it right that it would be the seller who has to face a court and justify their interpretation of the buyers defence, but the defences are explicit in legislation (or to be more precise for skirmishing that its under statutory instrument) UKARA isn’t legislation, so he could have meant that. It’s a scheme to meet the legislations requirement of skirmisher. He stretched the theatrical defence a bit far. Theatrical includes TV & Film, but ‘being a YouTuber’ who makes shooting videos isn’t theatrical for the purposes of justifying a RIF. (He may have managed to get a retailer to sell on that basis) Someone may like to enlighten me on what the ‘British Army airsoft converted Glocks’ are. He pulled a face too

That would be the difference between skirmishing and sports/target shooting The Skirmishing defence for RIFs is based on the immersion with realism, and succeeded in passing the test under the VCR Bill consultation, whereas for target shooting etc it’s the function and looks are less important

Real men don’t need magazines https://www.facebook.com/305201746660562/posts/1109618086218920/?d=n

Bottom line is that you don’t need to make it two tone now that you possess it. If you sell it then you may need to two tone it depending on who you sell it to The laws that apply are the Violent Crime Reduction Act (VCRA) and the Firearms Act (Potentially if you act like a dick the other laws may apply depending on what you do with it) The Firearms Act includes ‘low powered air weapons’, but there are now explicit exemptions for airsoft guns (as long as they comply to the power limitations etc) The VCRA covers RIF and IF. There is no problem with possession (Unless being a dick whilst in possession) Note that there isn’t actually ‘two tone’ in law - it’s that to be an IF it must be small, clear or >50% a specified bright colour (The partial colour then generating the ‘two tone’ name) To be sold a RIF you are meant to be able to justify a valid use (VCRA defence) to the retailer or private seller If a seller has sold you a RIF without reasonably establishing that your intent is to play airsoft on a proper site then they may have committed an offence. If you don’t be a dick, and you do ultimately play on a site then strictly speaking no offence has been committed - and any offence has not been committed by you Unless you are under age - if you are under 18 you cannot be sold an IF or RIF, but if it is given to you then that is legal

For purchases you ought to be making the appropriate declarations and taxes/duty due. Getting picked on a random inspection for them would imply you’ve been smuggling and evading duty So if in doubt use the ‘declare’ red channel As long as things are legal each country that is passed through, declared at borders, you have documentation etc then things should be good Useful to have an airsoft print magazine in possession, and attitude left at home For travelling with gear to play, then ensure everything is legal in each country you pass through, is appropriately packed, have appropriate documentation, have ‘informative’ things such as an airsoft print magazine etc Ensure that you can prove prior ownership if applicable (that you had it with you on your journey out and still have it when returning) Also be aware of the policies of any transport company - airlines, ferries, channel tunnel etc

I’ve been making pinhole solar cameras, so have needed to empty assorted Strongbow dark fruit & Kopperberg mini cans. I’ve pretty much exhausted the garden pole, and just need to leave it up for much longer https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3570521763057674&type=3 Ive access to some land, which will give good landscapes. But I need good reason to head out there and case out some spots - that would also reduce the temptation to take it down for the results every time I look up at it

That’s a fair price, unless you can turn up in person pyro comes with the issue of needing specific couriers Another option is directly from Enola, but of course their definition of bulk discount is bigger than a players. They will sell to people but will try to avoid undercutting or pulling away customers from the stockists. https://eg-products.com Have a nose through the product information at the bottom, and take care of them while in storage at home. Also note that the box for say 100 mk5s is designed and tested for the level of explosive in there and has all the safety info. Even when you’ve used a few keep the rest in the original box

Are you on the click & collect app? Double the free coffee - buy 5 get 1 free on the app, keep the stickers as well and it becomes buy 5 get 2 free

I dropped off my car for MOT and service a short while ago The walk home and then the walk to collect didn’t kill me Thats a good start

No, I wouldn’t spend money on such a device. We’ve considered devices, apps and many technical ways. Big issues are cost of equipment, damage to smart phones, reliance on technology, and the ease of keeping things simple I have already used a free smartphone app a number of years ago (and have managed to remember my password) https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/paintball-commander/id550845375 This allows a game to be created, a number of teams to be created (and password protected) Players then join the game, and sign into their team. You can then see team mates Marshalls can also add themselves There is nothing for player status - you’re either tracked or not, but can switch on/off tracking or could quit/rejoin If I recall correctly this allows players to see their own team, and also to see Marshalls - I don’t think there is a master view to see everyone (Instead of using the Marshall/referee option a team could be made of Marshall’s) It could be argued about the benefits of Marshals being visible to all (so you don’t shoot Marshall’s, or only seen by Marshall’s (so you don’t use Marshall’s positions to possibly imply the location of your enemy - or an objective that you’re meant to search for) As an organiser while running the game I don’t want players to be able to track me, where we’re laying devices etc But alternatively I do want to track certain marshals - for example we have a pink hi-vis which we use to easily spot the gadget controller This app doesn’t flag up the opposition A big disadvantage of map trackers is that people are watching screens etc and not playing the game. If you had time you could gather information and plan, which you get in some real life situations (as the commanders overview). In a game you’re on ‘missions’ of half an hour etc, and even in an all day or all weekend continuous game you don’t want to be focusing on a long duration objective - that’s going to quickly become a boring game, if things are continuous then you need different objectives to be taking place - many little things contributing to bigger things Good old radios and talking to people beat gadgets. At a major national event the traditionally losing side won the game due to radio co-ordination fed back to the commanders wife who handed out maps of the current action as each player respawned. As a ‘sub commander’ I knew the alternative plan and wanted us to be losing overall as usual - the plan was for the commander to start playing the ride of the valkyries into a bull horn and to walk around the site gathering every player to just go out in one vast firefight These technical pipedreams are good stuff, but don’t do well in practice. They would suit a site, but then you have a very tiny market and need to put the price up for low sales. Then the site won’t buy it For example look around at prop bombs with timers, codes or just red/blue buttons. There are hundreds of self made and also commercial ones. A good idea in principle, but rather than buy one in for a few hundred pounds (or more) the site can commission a teenage geek to watch YouTube and put a microcontroller into a box with flashing lights Go back about 15 years ago and props were random dummy inactive things, flags, chess timers. Go to about 12/13 years ago and our tech man was making the devices that actually functioned and blew up, now everybody has them - including kids to enhance their nerf To make such a device and to get someone to buy it you need to have your unique idea and sell it to a site before someone else comes up with the idea or copies yours for a fraction of the cost

With Brexit, Good Friday etc NI remains part of the UK but for EU purposes has no border with the South and the border sits in the sea towards GB Potentially in theory you can reclaim invalid taxes, but then would have to pay the other taxes Any option is onto a loser with somebody

Pricing is a matter of different markets - the combination of a larger population, more people involved in shooting hobbies, and a different economy - the first two giving economy of scale and the second where different things are more expensive / cheaper in different economies The other is how items are classified, a non critical element of a weapon that is classified differently, so it cannot be exported or requires approval for export. Back in the olden days I received an illegal copy of PGP encryption as part of a security course. This ‘strength’ was classified as weapons grade and illegal to export from the US. The trainers were under a US parent company thus could carry the software, they were committing a criminal offence by allowing us to walk away with the floppy disk or copy to our own laptops. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

If you are asking if your parents can gain UKARA registration by watching you play, then that’s a no. They need to play the required games themselves. Note that if you want a RIF via another person while you are under age then the only legal way is for them to give you it as a present Thinking that a two tone is lame doesn’t aid in showing the maturity required for responsible RIF ownership

Marked zones with boundary trip wires, mines & pyro might separate them

That’s something I’ve been wondering about on some recent threads, such as “x paintball site is opening for airsoft, will they know how to run an airsoft game?” The guns are different, but it’s still shooting each other with balls. BBs don’t leave a splat, but that doesn’t mean a paintballer won’t claim they didn’t notice the hit Except for competitive tournaments we don’t have a Marshall watching each player for hits Basic safety is generally the same - protect the eyes, just different goggle/glasses standards. Chrono needs to be done, different weight BBs should be taken into account, but if a paintball site allows different calibers or shaped projectiles then they need to take into account differences. Game ‘rules’ use different language, but are similar BBs don’t have to be stored at an ambient temperature and stock rotated (literally if paintballs are kept for any time) Many airsofters like dressing up - and so so many paintballers RIFs exist in paintball as well Airsofters don’t fancy getting splats on their outfits - but aren’t all afraid of getting muddy. There are also paintball divas afraid of getting dirty I’m wondering that the ‘difference’ is the typical player the site is used to. Not paintballer vs airsofter, but perhaps rental vs regular? The core business of paintball sites is the one off/occasional rental, with some sites (eg not Delta Force) running a monthly walk-on for the ‘regular’ own gunners. Airsoft sites that I’ve seen are typically running via regular own gunners, with some rentals ??? I see ‘typical’ airsoft as somewhere between walk-on and scenario paintball, and airsoft events like scenario paintball events Could it be that people are referring to a rental paintall site opening for airsoft and needing to understand the interests of own gunners/regulars compared to one off rentals rather than a paintballer vs an airsofter ? The most popular format and rule set that I’ve produced isn’t popular because of the paintball, I’ve always had numerous requests to run sessions with no guns. It’s Battle Royale under our Survival Paintball format, played by both paintballers and airsofters. The top weapons are the rubber frying pan and the tennis ball gun.

Could be quicker, could be slower Its a lottery, a lot is held up exiting and then arriving, if things come by ship then they are also held up at the docks waiting for unloading crews Theres the multitude of delays due to the UK being a border from Europe post Brexit, (previously only looking for illegal imports) staffing levels at every stage due to Covid and handily with distancing due to Covid etc

Standard practice is you get a letter with a declaration form in the line of : there is a package which may contain a RIF, and you respond declaring: It’s not a RIF It is a RIF, I have a defence & here are the details If they get sufficient info on the package then you save the ‘delay’ of a letter & declaration. But currently it’s going to be delayed anyway

They don’t need UKARA details, you need them - you’re the importer so it’s your problem. Where possible add it to your delivery address and/or comments. If it’s marked on the package then customs can see it, if not then you get contacted asking about your justification to import

It’s a shotgun The VCRA doesn’t cover ‘Imitations that look like a real gun’ but ‘imitations that somebody thinks could be a real gun, unless it’s clear or within a defined list of bright colours’

It would be easier for a paintball / airsoft site to use the UKPSF guidance than for an exclusive airsoft site to point towards paintball The activities have an equivalence, but the presence of ‘governing body’ in the new government guidance is a hurdle for air soft. I’d recommend that airsoft sites square themselves with the local authority - and can flag up about the rest.

I sold some reproduction collectible playing cards on eBay. For £7 plus postage £4.60 These were a circa 1990s reproduction of a playing card design dating back to the 1800s. I then got a complaint that they weren’t original (200 - 300 year old playing cards still sealed for £7?) Lots of back and forth, he eventually accepted that my description told him that they were a 1990s reproduction. He still only wanted them if they were paper/card and not plastic —— can I guarantee to him that’s the case? No - I can’t guarantee that, they are sealed. I believe that they are, but I’ve sold him sealed reproduction cards. I’m not accepting a return after they are opened. And I also gave him all the links to card collectors etc, noting one review of the reproduction that you could believe the reproduction to be genuine other than not having hundreds of years of wear. It finally came down to me offering a refund of the item price if he returns them sealed at his expense, he took the option but never posted them so never got refunded. For eBay to process the refund it needed to be sent back tracked, and if he attempted to post them will have found out how much it would cost. To get £7 back he would need to spend about £4

Spot on. For paintball we had the UKPSF AGM yesterday. They are recognized by government as a governing body, and also last year achieved clarification for the position on paintball and got it mentioned in government guidance as to where / when sites could open. They have provided Covid risk assessments for member sites and given the details on how sites can open under the current arrangements. Member sites have the full details. Under the player part of the AGM they highlighted the go ahead for sites meeting the right criteria to open from 29 March - excluding indoor sites, and they stressed the point regarding the UKPSF as governing body. UKPSF have managed to get the OK without needing paintball to be a recognized ‘organized sport’, but with a recognizable body. For airsoft the same could apply for sites with the appropriate measures in place and within the limits to open for people to run around shooting each other, but without the umbrella of a governing body. UKARA are recognizable, but are a retail organization designed around the VCRA There are others like UKAPU etc, but no single body nor collective of bodies representing different parties

Step 1b is for outdoor sport’s (29 March with the first weekend being 3/4 April) Step 3 is for indoor sports venues - see paragraph 120 in the link below (May 17 with the first weekend being 22/23 May) Step 4 is the removal of restrictions (21 June with the first weekend being 26/27 June) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-response-spring-2021 I would expect that step 3 would apply, but you also need suitable control measures and probably a limit of half standard capacity. Check with your local authority and your insurers as the LA will be who you have any problem with and your insurers can confirm their interpretation and whether they would cover you (Note that the dates are not absolute. They are the earliest dates and subject to the numbers staying down, the transfer from one step to the next needs to be confirmed by government as time moves along)

Nice to read that

Correct The contractor supplying the MoD is Irish, but they need their sub contractors & materials