Rogerborg

Oh, I should clarify, on the rare occasions when I sell things online, I send a PayPal invoice listing the item, shipping and total cost. When I'm buying, I ask for one: https://www.paypal.com/invoice/s/create When that's paid, I consider it sold (or bought), and not before. This serves as the record of what's been promised, and asked. AFUK is just a listing service, not a party to the sale, and nothing said here is going to matter much in the event of a dispute, only what the payment processor can see on their records.

Beat me to it. If I asked a site owner and two marshals, I'd expect two or three different answers. Ask again on the next day and I'd expect one or two of them to have forgotten or changed their minds. Personally I assume it means both: present yourself as a target, and be able to see what the muzzle is pointing at. I phrase that last one carefully because not all guns have sights, or are shoulder-fired, and the important consideration is to be sure that you're not going to point-blank someone in their earball. Anyone having a frothing fit because they see a toy being used in a manner that doesn't precisely match the technique in their Grammaton Cleric Gun Kata Boys Annual 2003 needs to cut themselves a a big slice of perspective cake.

I wouldn't use that system. Same rules as I do for any face-to-face classified selling: if the advert is still up, it's still available. It comes down when money has changed hands, and not an instant before. Agreed about the frustration of dealing with fantasists. I try to be scrupulously honest, clear and unambiguous when selling and buying anything. It's rare - but all the more welcome - when that's reciprocated.

Good to hear it, it's great that got sorted so easily. Sad news about DPD as they seem to be the least unreliable around here, but it all comes down to the individual delivery driver in the end.

No-full-auto-in-buildings-bro. That's a wanker gun, used by wankers. Unless you're playing speedsoft at a site full of similar overshooting spam-gibbons, please don't try to emulate it. My local CQB site runs a 3-shot-then-pause rule, which they actually monitor and crack down on. There's no need to be sending solid streams of BBs in CQB. I mention that rule actually being enforced because airsoft is rife with things which are "banned" but still happen regularly. For all you know, that bloke's ripping off full auto bursts and nobody is pulling him up on it.

I suspect that was a knee-jerk reaction to that incel sperg[*] who went postal in Plymouth last year after having his shotgun certificate (and shotgun) removed, and then reinstated. As always, the majority get punished when the only two people responsible were the loony, and the loony-hugger who gave them back their gun. [*] Literally, not figuratively.

I'd characterise it as "only following orders".

"Never seen action". 😢 I can only imagine how much "loadout" posing in front of the mirror occurred before chumrade there decided that he didn't actually want to get shot with the hurty-balls.

1000% this, the best times I've had have been unclicking the buckles, dropping all the tacticool gear, and running around in a t-shirt with my pockets stuffed with hi-caps. We get caught up our "loadouts" (*cough* costumes *cough*) but the core experience of playing airsoft is just pointing a toy and shouting "Brrrrt".

You can get "bracers" that wedge in front of your gearbox to brace it against the shell, e.g. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32215233163.html?spm=a2g0o.9042311.0.0.75234c4dcmkYQz V2/M4 only, and they only work with old style dial hop units, not the rotary units (Maxx, ZCI, Specna). They rely on friction from two tiny grub screws to hold two other tiny cylinders in place, so are interesting bodges that probably don't really address a problem that should never have been there in the first place, but, you know... airsoft.

To clarify, the behaviour I'm referring to is anyone who's on site, ostensibly as a player, but who's not primarily interested in playing the game. That applies to any sort of clickbait merchant or Instafluencer, and people who are there to make hits but not take them. The likes of Licking Mustard ticks all those boxes at once, and I wish they'd find different things to do on a weekend and leave the rest of us to trade hits fairly and say "Jolly well done, old sport" (or similar friendly ejaculations) to each other.

It doesn't sound like a CJA 1988 prohibited weapon. If it were, then, yes, it's an offence to import, but there's a specific offence of "manufactures, sells or hires or offers for sale or hire, exposes or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or hire, or lends or gives to any other person". Exceptions rely on intent, not a loicence. That's not to say that one doesn't exist, but I can't see that it has any basis in law. The legislation is, I'm sure we know, a bit of joke, although not so funny when Dibble is kicking on your door to Check Your Thinking. It prohibits both hollow tubes ("blowpipes") and solid tubes ("batons"), aka sticks. Then we get to this absolute gem. (s) the weapon sometimes known as a “zombie knife”, “zombie killer knife” or “zombie slayer knife”, being a blade with— (i) a cutting edge; (ii) a serrated edge; and (iii) images or words (whether on the blade or handle) that suggest that it is to be used for the purpose of violence. Hurty words confirmed! Good on you for taking it calmly, I'm not sure I'd have been that reasonable. It does show that Border Farce are getting rabid for ratting folk out, and apparently they don't know the law either because on the face of it it sounds like what you imported was no more dangerous, prohibited or offensive than a spud peeler. I'm guessing that the Offensive Weapons Act 2019, which criminalised simple possession of a range of prohibited offensive weapons, is still a hot topic for Dibble, and is being enforced based on canteen wisdom rather than the letter of the law.

Depends on the site though - some will want a single piece full face for a 12 year old, rather than two-piece. I'll echo the above about the MI7: they're fine if they fit. If they don't then you could try to heat and remould the frame. I stress could, it would be a bit dicey either with the lens in (the inner pane would be prone to melting) or out (it might not fit back in the frame again).

True, but that's exactly the problem: too many folk on site on most days who aren't really there to play airsoft to the same set of common trust and respect based rules as the rest of us. And it becomes more of a problem when they publicise and encourage that behaviour. I'm both glad and sad to see more sites starting to take a dimmer view of filming. The turds have fouled that punch bowl for everybody.

Tech fail, but fun on the range was had. They also have a carbine sized version that looks almost back-garden friendly, for "inaccurate tumbling cylinders of steel" definitions of "friendly".

Master Race snipers can tell that their BB really hit the target even when you can clearly see it swerving off into the wide blue yonder. Warning: contains extremist content, and a giant throbbing dick.

I wouldn't have paid that much for one. However having bought a clone for about £20 (no idea what they run to now), I can see the point. Very. You click the mag in, and it's literally just a few winds of the wheel to get it fully loaded. It makes reloading the work of seconds rather than minutes and gives you more time in the safe zone for banter, updating your airsoft Instagram page, interpretative dance, or whatnot.

Correct, it's a voluntary scheme run by a bunch of debt card providers. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/visa-mastercard-chargeback/ Key point: "The main requirement for getting your money back through chargeback is evidence that there's been a breach of contract (ie, didn't get what you paid for) and the firm will not give you a refund. You must first try to get a refund from the firm first, before you try chargeback." Thus the conditional "When they tell you to do one, or ignore you" above. My experience is that the payment processor will get in touch with the rogue trader and the fun begins. I'd stress sticking to just the very basic facts, be as clear and concise as possible, give only your side of the story, and provide them with any documentation trail. Bet of luck.

It's only real physics if it's done in zero freefall gravity vacuum orbit.

Seems a bit subtle, if so. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284650286872 I've seen eBay adverts trying that wheeze, but they usually say "comes with everything shown" or similar wink-wink, nudge-nudge. Given that you'd have zero comeback from eBay, it's a peculiar way of selling or buying.

Generic, or specific?

Which means absolutely nothing in airsoft. My backup-backup gun is a CYMA CM.516, the really cheap, nasty plastic one, which I've been fiddling with on and off from the moment that I bought a second RIF. I rarely have cause to revert to it, but when I do, wow, it outshoots anything else that I've got. ZCI hop and barrel, Big Dragon M140, bang on 1.13J with an M90 spring, feeds from any mag, and so much brrrrrrt. BBs really, truly, don't care about what's wrapped around the gearbox, hop unit and barrel.

I do like how the manufacturer is very clear that these are early prototypes, and they're about the least practical way of murderising someone imaginable at the moment. However, they exist, they "work" (about 4 shots out of 10) and they're actually selling them, so kudos for that. Legislation is going to be a pickle for the various fun sponges out there, and I imagine the AFT ATF is frantically coming up with ways to define and ban them just on general principle. Over here, they clearly fall under lethal barrelled firearms, so it's FAC or nothing.

But nobody would or could do that except for some sort of historical firearms buff with access to rare... wait... ohhhhh. Ian has apparently used this amazing abomination at an actual firearms match - I can't wait to see how brilliantly terrible the results are.