Rogerborg

This event seems like an exemplar that hope is not a strategy. I'd offer up for consideration an alternative way that these large events could go, one which accepts reality without approving of it.

Player: "Hey, a lot of people aren't following the rules." Organiser: "STFU noob read rules." Player: "But.. I did, that's why I'm..." Organiser: "REED RULZE PLZ" Galaxy brain handling right there. Oh, and "cheat calling is mandatory" is the plot twist that nobody saw coming.

^^^ Although legally speaking, as you're under 18 it's an offence for you to buy it, and for him to sell it. There's no defence for that - you need the gifting-from-parent wheeze to get around it. It's really not that hard to buy RIFs, especially 2nd hand: just don't volunteer information unless you're asked. However, I'd sound a note of caution: a realistic gas-blowback pistol is a lot easier and more tempting to mis-use than a two-tone rifle. Being completely honest with yourself, are you sure, are you absolutely certain, that you're not going to be tempted to take a pistol round to your mate's house to show it off, just once? I'd check if your parents are OK with it first.

This thread is now worthless without said memes.

Ouch. Not surprised, but I'm always disappointed by it. It's down to the thieving scum, not the site though - there's just no way for them to stop Bob walking off with Alice's gat.

Some people will enjoy it despite the foul-ups, some will enjoy it because of them, and some men just want to watch the site burn.

Oh, it's always a risk, there was a 15 year old who straight up begged his way to being bought a bunch of RIFs by sweaty nonces strange men on Facebook, without having played a game. Naysayers were told to knock off them negative waves. Of course, instead of skirmishing, he then went on spree of public photography, including posing on his rooftop. 🙄 OP is at least claiming to have played, and practically speaking, there's nothing stopping anyone hitting their dayglo with a rattlecan of best Poundland black. Even asking the question is a decent sign.

Entirely up to the site. UKARA (and equivalent schemes) are just centralised registers of site memberships. It would be a crappy thing to do to any site that's running limited numbers of players, since he'll be taking a place away from an actual player, and not buying any consumables. I mention this because there's a difference between legality and morality. What I will note is that there's no age limit on the defence for modifying an IF into a RIF [edit - see below]. If you are an active airsoft player, you can adduce that defence, and there's no statutory requirement to have a UKARA number (because there's no definition of the defence in the statute, or even in the regulation that added our defence, it's in an accompanying circular, and suggestive). In plain language: if you're an active airsoft skirmisher, you can paint your two tone, same as anybody else. Or practically speaking, private sellers tend not to care as much about defences. Legally speaking, if I were selling to your parent, and they could provide evidence that it would be gifted to and used by an active airsoft skirmisher (of any age) then I'd be fine with it. That would apply even more if you could find someone at your local site(s) who's looking to sell. Those things should go together, but airsoft doesn't work that way. The cheapest CYMAs are cockroach tough, while VFCs can come pre-broken. Unmeddled TMs might qualify. Just don't expect startlingly better performance than your Lancer. Fair point, but the VCRA isn't secret and S36 (offences) and S37 (defences) don't make any mention of age. Age is an issue for Firearms Act 1968 S24A, which applies to the sale and the purchase of imitation firearms. The inconsistency there is off the charts, given that there's no VCRA offence of purchasing a RIF (at any age). Which gets to another piece of lawyer-bait, whether the same item can be an imitation firearm for the purposes of the Firearms Act, and a realistic imitation firearm for the purposes of VCRA. I say yes, of course it can, while other people argue equally passionately that something can't be both a firearm (for FA) and a realistic imitation firearm (for VCRA), i.e. airgun replicas. As you say, test cases, test cases, test cases. But if OP is going to be sensible with his use, it won't be his test case. And if he's not, then the VCRA will be the least of his worries as he'll be looking at Firearms Act offences first and foremost.

I'm on it. That's exactly what literally Hitler would have said.

They might go as low as what OP told his wife they originally cost. That is some lovely stuff though, sorry to hear you're passing them on, but they'll bring joy to someone else.

That's the South-West province of Sweden, right? I'm absolutely fine with a completely stock TAC-41 shooting at 2.3J, the typical UK limit. You're very welcome here, but most of the users are UK based so we won't have data[*] on how it performs at your energy levels. Of course, if you check out the TAC-41 owners group on Facebook you'll be told that it's the best airsoft sniper rifle ever, and the only thing you need to do in order to make it even better than the best airsoft sniper rifle is to replace every single part. 🙄 tl;dr version - rifle is fine. [*] "Data" in the airsoft sense of only remembering the great shots, and blaming the bad ones on leaves, grass, wind, or witches.

Should you though?

In parts. Facebook/Instagram/WhatApp/Meta is based in Menlo Park, California, between San Francisco and San Andreas. Sorry, San Jose. Looks like ~30% of households have a gun, across the whole State, but that'll be heavily weighted towards rural areas, plus all the untracked fully-semi-automatic assault-ghostguns performing involuntary wealth redistribution in the cities.

Of course, real Greater Good has never been tried.

Thanks, it's good to get the numbers. 380mm is quite a long barrel, so I'm not surprised you're seeing a significant drop by reducing the volume. Have you checked how far back the piston is going now? I await corrections with an airsoft physics explanation, but can't see any point to having the cylinder cut out further back than the piston rings(s) just before it releases.

It's not something that overly concerns me, as the worst brew ups seem to happen to RC lads charging eleventeen chonky batteries in parallel. That said, I do actually put the lipo and charger into a ceramic pie dish, and keep the route to the back door clear in case I need to hurl them outside. And at the first sign of puffing or damage, don't risk it, not at the price of £10-£20 for a new one.

Given that he apparently has no qualms about signing up as Mr Undercover, probably better to not warn him up front.

But that doesn't alter the fact that they were just sent the exact same information that they already had, possibly plus the word "airsoft". So I'm left wondering: if they didn't check the UKARA the first time they had it, did they check it the second? In other words, maybe just saying "Yeah, airsoft and that" is sufficient to get it through, with or without a (real or imaginary) UKARA or site membership number. Pure speculation, but I'm coming down on the side of not having a UKARA number or other defence put on the packaging now.

Wait, this is a real thing? Not a meme?

Mmm, with inflation and exchange rates and supply chains, I wouldn't find excuses to avoid or delay purchases.

Agreed, it was a general musing about sites. Area-66 is notably diligent about doing robust build-work and flagging, taping and declaring hazardous areas out of bounds. The whole church area was out of bounds one weekend out of an abundance of caution because of some damage to the big trees there, which they then had taken care of professionally.

Probably not. We have been making inroads into firearms crime, although it's been essentially static since 2013 or so.

That they demanded the same information that they already had: his name, address, and UKARA number. It feels a bit like "dance, monkey, dance."

Yes, but this one goes to level 11.