Rogerborg

Thank you for following up, now we've all learned.

Oh, sorry, my mistake, I was thinking of the chap with the weird BB-stuck-in-hop issue. Yes, it's much easier with a springer - just mash your finger in the end of the barrel to see if there's good seal there. You should be able to shoot it, remove your finger, and hear a pop. If so, you're good. If not, something is leaking, and it's a question of working backwards to find where. Have you changed the stock spring? Stock seems to be around 1.8J, but some snipers come super-weak out of the box to be safe in all markets.

Depends how far you're stripping it down. If it's all the way to components, then start with piston and cylinder. Seal the end with your hand or whatever squishy surface you have handy, and push the piston sharply forwards - a perfect airseal will stop it dead. If it's leaking around the piston ring(s), replace, grease, or stretch it/them. Then add cylinder head and repeat, and then the nozzle and repeat - and test the seal with nozzle forwards, not pushed back against the cylinder head. Finally, push the hop unit and barrel against the gearbox, finger on the end of the barrel, and check that you still have good seal, as shown here (actually, just start here and work backwards if you don't have a good seal). What I don't recommend is doing this with the gearbox intact, using the gears and motor, as you're begging to strip the cylinder. If you have a quick-change gearbox, you pull the spring and test with a long screwdriver or rod pushed in from the rear.

And Martin Lewis appears in AI deepfakes because he's trustworthy. That's not his problem to fix.

De jure, it's a defence to the offence, not a licence to import. Although they do - de facto - choose to treat it as though it were. That's tucked away in the small print of a document (IIRC) relating to ferries from Ireland.

Hmm. Two things occur: 1. The bucking has got fouled with something slippery - silicone, or grease. I've even had it happen when I silicone lubed a magazine and the BBs transferred lube to the bucking more than I'd expected. 2. Not enough puff to push the BBs past the bucking. Weak spring, or knackered air seal?

The problematical definition would be air weapons but not firearms. It would be a perverse interpretation given the definitions in FA 1968 Section 1(3)(b) , and the "air weapon / other firearm" in S19. The only thing giving me slight pause - and given the particular loathing for gun-shaped toys North of the border - is the meaning of "air weapon" in Section 1(4)(a) of the Air Weapons Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015. "an air weapon which is not a firearm (within the meaning of section 57(1) of the 1968 Act)" That refers to the 1J lethal barrel limit. This legislation was written before the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and so couldn't have referenced the S57A exemption for airsoft guns. But PCA 2017 didn't amend the Scottish legislation to say "57(1) or 57A", and neither has Holyrood now that 57A exists. Can Westminster legislation amend Scottish Acts? Don't know! But if I were working for the Procurator Fiscal (presumably after having traded my soul to Satan for a bag of Tangfastics), I'd bang the table and say "Ah hah! That clearly shows that Westminster-and-or-Holyrood meant to draw a distinction between <=1J airsoft guns, which are neither firearms not air weapons, and >1J airsoft guns which are not firearms but which are lethal barrelled air weapons for the purposes of the Scottish Act. Hang him, your honour! Hang him, then send him to Barlinnie!" It would be a preposterous thing to claim, and I present it as such. There would be no reasonable prospect of conviction unless you misrepresented the law and/or manipulated the evidence, which is exactly what the Scottish Fiscal has form for doing with airsoft guns.

Just AEG it, bro.

That's a great point. However... Perhaps better to say that nobody has yet prohibited it. Hasn't been applied, yet. I really, really hope that we don't get a test case for this, particularly in Scotland.

And I'm not even joking. "POW POW POW". Age verification required to see if Florida Man called the hit or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOYdRu5n7Q (I assume this is a training reflex from calling "shots" from a dayglo mock-Glock, but it would be hilarious if he's a CQB airsofter)

Breaks the first rule of airsoft, I doubt the owner calls his hits either.

Ahoy and welcome back.

I'm baffled by why that would be. All that 57A says is: An “airsoft gun” is not to be regarded as a firearm for the purposes of this Act. Anything beyond that is inference and (absent case law) assumption, not explicit. 115% agreement.

Urgh, the typical mess. The finding is that they are readily convertible, and they are being actively converted and used for murder-death-kills, so I see no reason why possession would (or should) be lawful right now. My interpretation is that it's a Home Office policy to not prosecute over them yet. But the police - as a core Peelian principle - should operate on what the law says, independent of policy. You might not get prosecuted, but that doesn't mean that you won't get arrested and have your home turned upside down: the process is the punishment. So I'd agree with destroy-and-retain now, or go and talk to your local cop shop and see if they'll take it now and issue a receipt, given that you might be asked to prove your innocence later.

Low powered air weapons. They explicitly prohibit replicas. Be careful, now, what you list it as. Or... just use whatever courier is cheapest. Do they really care, if it's within the UK? I've sent RIFs with (I think) DPD and Evri without issues. BBGnuz4less will only pay Evri costs.

I'd be disappointed if "most" sites are still getting inaccurate figure this way. The outdoor sites near me get their inaccurate figures by trusting players on the BB weight that they're using. The indoor sites test on site-supplied 0.2g, but they have a 0.25g mass limit.

Last time I knocked one up, I used a 3.6V (well, 3.4V - 4.2V) 18650 cell, and a small value resistor.

Literally tl;dr

Comes with "a bag of soft eggs" though. Bristol.ac.uk doesn't seem to be matriculating the cream of the application pool.

Yup. I'd run a marker pen over the blemishes. Not spray or brush paint, it's more prone to flaking and spalling.

Ahoy and welcome and what they said and also

A solid plan. I'd echo the recommendation for Area 66, it's a friendly and well run site, with good facilities and a decent access road and parking - the significance of this will become instantly apparently if you try Section 8 or Players of War instead. They do rental package if you don't want to make a big investment until you've tried it. If you go ahead and buy yourself before you try, the only other thing you'll need is eye and face protection. They'll want to see a single piece full face mask on your son, i.e. a paintball style mask like a Dye, or Valken MI-7. You'll only need eye protection.

I mean, specifically an MP5K. I guess the TM High Cycle is a candidate - that's plastic, right?

It is peculiar that it's hard to get a cheap plastic version, given that it's airsoft. Other than the Galaxy G5K, are there any plastic bodied alternatives?

Luke at Negative does the warranty work on them in the UK, which is indeed a big recommendation. I would actually agree that if you have a wodge of money and just want "bestest M4" then you'd be as well buying the SSR4 as anything else.