Tommikka

Simple possibly - but as Longshot pointed out 6 years ago, the UKARA system was designed to protect retailers from prosecution under the VCRA (The UKARA are the UKs Airsoft Retailers Association) It was the UKARA who acted when the act was just a bill and managed to have the skirmisher defence added. The UKARA player scheme is the system that they came up with. In effect a player establishes skirmisher status at one UKARA site. The UKARA and sites have not felt the need to enhance the scheme for playing at different sites. Players are welcome to do so and can play wherever they like or join as many sites as they wish. Sites typically maintain a player as a member and on the register if they remain a site member and continue to play into the next year etc Its not compulsory under the VCRA to use the UKARA, but that’s the most commonly recognised scheme. Sites could collaborate, but for faith in a system then there would be a need to verify the card and share the information. Any data collected needs to be controlled and have transparency, any sharing then has to be declared and controlled. Without control and validation it becomes an untrusted process and a retailer selling a RIF based on untrusted documentation is then facing a considerable fine under the VCRA

Everything is degradable over time, but what you should do for a particular item varies. On a woodland airsoft site you will have a mixture of BBS that are sat on the ground, hidden in bushes and trampled into the earth. The ones that get trampled in have the ‘best’ chance to degrade if they are biodegrade, but only if the right organisms etc are there to degrade them. Photo degradable would be suitable for any out in the open, as long as nobody stands on them. At home you probably don’t want your garden filled with them, so if possible have some kind of capture system even if that is just some sheeting that you pick up once in a while. Then what do you do with them? Recyle in your plastics - only if they are the right kind of plastics for recycling centres available to your local council. Landfill - this is a dirty word, and councils face not only the actual cost of the land and handling landfill but artificial fines etc for the percentage of waste going to landfill. Landfill is probably the right answer for biodegradable plastic, but separation of waste has taken away a number of the elements that went into landfill (eg washing your recycling takes away what would have historically broken down and acted upon bio-degradable elements) A few years back Tesco’s brought out biodegradable carrier bags. Any bags that were flying around the street or sent to landfill would turn to dust. Depending on conditions this took place in a matter of months, which was great. The problem was people actually reused carrier bags, so all of a sudden people’s bag stashes turned to dust. Now ‘single use’ carrier bags have been heavily reduced, but replaced by bags for life. The actions haven’t changed much, I often see bags for life sat beside bins. The use of bags has remained fairly constant, but more of the earths resources and longer degradable times are now takin place

As you are under 18 you cannot purchase an IF or a RIF. You can be given either of them as a gift. As a non player your father can buy and gift you an IF. For him to be able to purchase a RIF he would need one of the defences to provide to the retailer. UKARA is only one scheme to document a valid defence, it’s not the only airsoft scheme but it’s the primary scheme. If he were to go playing with you when sites reopen then he would be able to establish a defence in his own right. (Note that current restrictions affecting choices on buying also affect your ability to play with the purchased item) Being a man in his 50s isn’t an obvious reason for not wanting to play airsoft. There are players much older than that. His personal interests might mean that he has no interest in playing.

You only have to be aged 18 to purchase and to be UKARA registered, so it is possible to start with your local site before you are 18

You can buy air rifles & air pistols that ‘look’ like real guns. In the eyes of the law they are not RIFs as under firearms legislation an air rifle/air pistol is a low powered air weapon. It’s a firearm that doesn’t require a FAC, therefore the VCRA does not apply. If it is over revised legal requirements of an airsoft gun then technically it is a firearm / low powered air weapon. If buying in the UK its up to the seller if they are willing to sell on the basis of it being a firearm / low power air weapon or that they may be at risk of falling under the VCRA as a RIF which would make them liable to a £1000-£2000 fine for selling to a buyer without a defence. If importing then it’s up to you to convince customs The VCRA is an anti chav law to reduce lookalike RIFs in the hands of those who don’t meet the criteria selected for defences

The seller would be committing the offence under the VCRA by selling to you without you having your defence. You could paint after purchase but there is no legal requirement for you to paint a RIF into an IF when you already possess it. Technically if you buy with the intent to use the RIF to play on an insured site then you are a valid purchaser, but the seller won’t have taken reasonable measures to ensure you have a valid defence under the act. For two tone design the law requires the majority of the gun (eg over 50%) to be painted in one of the specified bright colours. It does not define how it is painted or any designs. It you painted a game skin design that isn’t a bright colour then it would not count. transparent bright red bright orange bright blue bright yellow bright green bright pink bright purple For example there is the Hello Kitty pink gun design that seems popular in the US. It wouldn’t qualify as Hello Kitty pink is not ‘bright pink‘

Are you sure that this wasn’t an automated removal due to some wording on your sale? M4 pouches remain on eBay

The part about site fills was just whether you’d need convincing to go to a 13ci from a 48ci, or if you didn’t have site fills and needed extra air etc I can’t think back for certain - but a MOLLE MP5 pouch should fit a 13ci, and would fit one column of MOLLE. I’ve used them for paintball pods, which is tight at first, and I’m sure I’ve put my 13ci in one before. (I prefer to lose the remote line and use the bottle on the gun to avoid tangling etc) There’s also the option to make a skeleton strap bottle holder for a 13ci. Two or three horizontal strap loops and one vertical strap to secure it

What cylinder are you using and do you have air fills on site? A 13ci 3000psi cylinder is easier than a 48ci cylinder to accommodate on a vest etc

No. She worked out that I’m a paintballer who does stuff with airsofters

On a different tack, but it appears that something was ‘mis heard’ ...... I help out with friends who trade at shows, and was at Olympia comicon a coupe of weeks ago. I gave some additional customer service helping a lady choose a couple of gifts, then taking card payment I offered her the opportunity to have a text or email receipt ... and of course let her know that personal data was not kept by us, her phone number was going into the PayPal machine only, and that PayPal May retain it for future payments but we don’t. If she wants to be kept in touch then to like us on Facebook .... as I enter her phone number, I show the screen to confirm it’s right and also show that I haven’t ticked ‘save customer details’ .... and as her phone beeps with the incoming text, she walks away with a glint in her eye and says “Oh, you could ‘accidentally call ..... name... later” ..... No I can’t - like us on Facebook like I told you to

Much as I like to hate mesh and recommend people use full face goggles, plus my ignorance of ‘mag flash’ and only having just looked them up ........ The issue here appears to be magflash

Or you could weigh a BB, (or a number of BBs and divide the weight by the quantity which allows for sensitivity of the scales), and use an airsoft chronographs built in functions

I’m not going to say that it’s OK for you to end up in possession of a RIF If someone gifts you a RIF then that’s between them and you If it is legal under the VCRA for you to paint an IF into a RIF then it’s fine for you to do so If it’s a crime but you don’t get caught then you have got away with it. An entirely legal way would be for your father to go playing with you, earn his own UKARA membership, and then buy you a RIF as a present

‘Defence’ is not you defending from prosecution, eg in court. If a player buys a RIF then that player does so under the skirmisher defence. But it is the retailer who would be liable under legislation if the player does not have the defence That means a retailer might need to go to court one day and defend themselves from prosecution, establishing that their ‘Legal defence’ is that they reasonably ensured that the buyer had a VCRA ‘defence’ implying that they intended to use the RIF for skirmishing. In modifying then you are the individual who could be liable for prosecution and could need to prove your legal defence of your skirmisher defence The site manager won’t care. The greater risk is to come to the attention of the police One way to start defending your position is to not tell people that you are painting it

The VCRA governs Realistic Imitation Firearms. A defence in this context is the valid reason for purchasing, importing, manufacturing (or modifying) a RIF Defences in the core legislation are for museums, theatre, film and TV, reenactment etc Airsoft skirmishing was added by ‘statutory instrument’, the UKARA scheme was brought in to establish and document a players status as a skirmisher. But you are underage and cannot obtain that defence yourself. Arguably you could claim that your intent is only to paint your IFs into RIFs for the purpose of airsoft skirmishing at established insured sites, and you may be technically be within the law. But you also could fail to do so in which case you would be committing an offence under the VCRA. (Note that the original drafts of the bill had repainting an IF into a RIF as an explicit offence just by doing so. It isn’t as black and white now)

If your father had a Defence then he could gift you RIFs You can paint your two tone that is wearing off - but should paint in the bright colours as specified in the VCRA to retain their IF status. If you paint them black then you are modifying an IF into a RIF, and don’t have a Defence to back yourself up.

I’m supposed to the the one who suggests frangible BBs containing some form of marking gel substance to resolve the bouncing BB cheating argument I like the suggestions of a solution to measuring energy as opposed to velocity, or the need to select a BB weight for the chronograph which will then convert velocity to give you an energy reading. The legal requirement is based on the energy as it leaves the barrel. Thus we measure at the muzzle velocity and either have a FPS limit based on the assumed balls mass, or set the weight and go for the energy level. A ‘pendulum’ has the issue that you are measuring the impact energy at a given distance from the barrel, so if the impact is at the legal limit, then you still have an excessive energy level at the point of the barrel.

It is a bit of a headache. As the probable original idea of an alternative to selling at the desired price, by encouraging a greater number of people to chance it, the theory is there. But depending on circumstances of the actual item and its value, then less risky (not getting enough contenders, legal headaches etc) and simplest option is just to offer up for sale.

Very little, they are effectively the same thing. The winner being governed by the bonus ball number drawn on TV in the national lottery, from a random number generator or pulling a ticket out. All of these are a form of gambling with winner as a result of chance. The other factor is how people are able to enter: Is it a restricted audience due to the workplace, members club etc? Is it open to the general public, but only within a specific event (location and date etc)? What is the scale? What legislation is applicable? (Even within the UK there are different acts on gambling depending on the constituent country. Are the organisers licenced or registered? Are entries / tickets sold? Are they free but another cost is required, such as door entry? A bonus ball/raffle on an Internet forum is unlikely to qualify.

This would be seen as gambling and unless licenced or within specific criteria is likely to be illegal. https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/PDF/Organising-small-lotteries.pdf A prize competition would be legal, but it would be up to the forum admins/moderators as to whether it complied with forum rules Bonus ball lotteries don’t comply with prize competition requirements https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/for-the-public/Safer-gambling/Consumer-guides/Running-prize-competitions-and-free-draws.aspx

You therefore don’t have a defence under the VCRA as you are purchasing without the intent to skirmish On an administrative basis, retailers would believe you do have an intent to skirmish if you provide your UKARA details Alternatively ..... what @SgtTalbert said

I sometimes judge people from videos ..... but it’s not the player in front of the camera that I judge .....

If it ‘adversely’ affects your reputation, then you could

It would not be copyright, as you can’t copyright your face. However you don’t actually need to be a copyright holder to instigate a copyright breach !!! How they generate their income may vary, if YouTube monetisation then a breach claim will put a hold on it, if they are ‘giving a message from our sponsor’ then they have had that paid .... but want the next videos money to come, if they are promoting their website / products then it’s the potential sales or clicks that follow There is a whole subject of discussion though. My face has appeared on TV, and I did not sign an explicit release. On the day of filming our main ‘face’ did need to sign all the legal papers granting permissions - he was all over the programme, I was in a scene, he was a subject expert, named & spoke, I was a random character, uncredited and silent. He gave legally documented consent, I gave implied consent. I’ve been the subject of ‘modelling’ shoots with my sponsor - and not signed papers - but consent was there and our faces weren't shown. Both sponsor and team have copies of the pictures - used both by them and also us in event promos etc I could be called the face of a particular merchandise, due to drinking from my new mug straight away. (It may have been my suggestion that the photo be used so I can’t claim back on that!) An advertising agency will want to see model releases to protect themselves, but the lack of paperwork doesn’t mean the consent didn’t exist