Rogerborg

You being racist against hive minds, bruv?

Not wrong though. He's spicy, let's keep him.

For clarity, my understanding is that retailers pay for UKARA, not sites. Sites add their players to it, retailers check it to adduce their defence. Granted some sites are also retailers, but I'm talking about pure retailers. If they didn't have to pay for access to check, why would they?

Yes, it's not mentioned on the UKARA site, but I was issued a number on the spot by the site, and told that it would be active on the UKARA site immediately - the email from UKARA is just confirmation of that. If I were a retailer paying £300 (or whatever it is now) a year to get access to UKARA, I'd be questioning the value of that if Joe Public can do it free and gratis. I know that there's at least one retailer who will check UKARA numbers for private sellers, which is rather baffling.

UKARA is a centralised scheme, but the numbers are site specific, and they're best placed to figure out what went wrong and sort it out.

US sites, they seem to like 1.48J / "400fp" limits for AEGs with a 10' or 20' MED and bang rules, with only pistols to be used for point blanking each other in the face and kicking off IRL fights.

That. UKARA numbers are really site membership numbers, it's all between them and UKARA. There's even an app for it now, last time I got one it was handed out on the spot by the site.

Especially if anyone is still buying from them directly while putting the Polish VAT directly into their pockets as profit. The sad thing is that it can still work out to about the same price as buying in the UK (for some items) even when paying + 20% Polish VAT + 20% UK VAT + >£30 in postage and courier mugging.

It's a bit of a catch-22 for them. Without the volume of sales, it's a big cost to swallow. But without charging UK VAT at source, they're not going to get sales volume up (or back). I do remain surprised that neither TaiwanGun nor GunFire reckon it's worth their while though. They're essentially ceding the UK market to PatrolBase and the also-rans.

Dammit, I had a "they're toys, just play with them" post all lined up, then I realised that I have just weathered my LARP-laser-gnu. I've become everything that I mocked! 😧

That's a lot of functionality for the money, especially if it can give you a speedyboi trigger. I saw the Facebook post but I don't run V2 enough to be a good test monkey. I'll be watching with interest to see if a V3 appears.

Seems like this preacher might have benefitted from some CQB training. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/25/nyc-bishop-robbed-jewelry-church/10142505002/ Wait, how much in jewellery?

It does dip in energy quite a lot after the opening, but picks up again later. He's a decent actor, but like Tom Cruise, I can't separate his religious dogma from the art.

It's always problematic to know if there's any real benefit to airsoft "upgrades". I'd be very interested to see a bench test with the human element minimised. Short of that, I'm not minded to drop more money on mine, although I am intrigued by the chub nub since I'm already at 9/10 hop for 0.43g.

I have no issues with the stock one. Are you having consistency problems?

Which is why I've been very careful to talk about shotgun certificates. Very few people here choose to get one, but very few people couldn't. No, how many? I guess that depends on whether you consider Brazil and Mexico to be civilised or savage. In any case, I'm not arguing that point. If I could Thanos-snap away all guns, everywhere, forever, I'd do it (to howls of approval from lions and tigers and bears, oh my). Given that I can't, I'm more interested in a dispassionate comparison of the systems. To be very clear, I'm not arguing in favour of the US situation, or its system. I'm more concerned with ours, and how it demonstrably doesn't stop wrong 'uns from getting shooters. It's actually surprising that more career criminals don't get their hands on shotguns here, directly or through a mule. Perhaps they think that it's harder than it is.

There's a bit of a theme developing here. If you want some solid, straightforward toxic masculinity not dripping with CURRENT_YEAR tropes, then Amazon seems like the place to be. Reacher: Sherlock Holmes crossed with the Punisher. Big burly bloke puzzles out a crime, and anyone who fucks around finds out. Far closer to the source novels than the daft movies where Tiny Tom Cruise gnaws on kneecaps. Great casting, decent writing, pacing and production. Feels like a throwback to the 1990, when the novels were written, in all the best ways. The Terminal List: Not dissimilar. Chris Pratt as a Navy SEAL looking for answers after his team gets wiped out, with questions over his own mental state and stability. Pratt does a surprisingly credible job, far more serious than prancing around guarding the galaxy. Some interesting details, including SEAL explosive sniffing doggos and the merits of 9mm versus .45 (2oo wurld warrrghs), with multiple military advisers credited. It turns into a pretty slow burn after a hot start, but it picks up as it goes, with some dick-punching, eye-gouging, arm-biting, double... no triple-tapping action. Not up there with Extraction, but still both better than I'd expected.

It's cromulent because shotgun certs remain shall issue here. I got one back in the day for black powder musketry and powder storage. As it turns out, I never even bought a bang-tube, but it was trivial to get the cert, and once you've got it, you can - quite literally - load for bear. I'd venture to suggest that if we're talking systems then the Murcan Federal background check actually provides more control and gatekeeping than the UK system, if you're mentally minded and willing to play to win. It's really more a cultural issue: our most recent mass shooter was an immigrant from the Western Colony, who viewed shooter ownership as normal rather than an aberration.

Ahoy and welcome. We're currently liking the SkyRC S65C: https://www.nexusmodels.co.uk/skyrc-s65-charger-ac-balance-charger-discharger-65w.html or elsewhere. Batteries, I'd go with 7.4V lipo, although lithium-ion owners seem happy enough too. I'd avoid 11.1v as while you'll get better trigger response and ROF, you also get trigger arcing and may get overspin and double-firing on semi (some people get lucky with 11.1v, I've not been). It looks like the SA-C05 CORE uses mini-Tamiya (yuk) rather than Deans. Mini-Tamiya is the left here, Deans is the right. If you do have mini-Tamiya, you be sure that you're buying airsoft rather than RC batteries, as the connector polarities are reversed for reasons known only to God (Deans doesn't have that problem, which is another reason to rewire to it). You'll want a battery with two distinct cells, which you'll see called a cranestock / nunchuck / butterfly style. One goes down either half of the stock after you've removed the back-plate. I'd measure the space that you have available and buy two of the highest capacity lipo batteries that fit, within your budget. For the same price you'd be able to buy one lithium-ion battery with about the same capacity as two lipos, but I consider that a riskier proposition if it craps out. You'll generally want to swap lipos at lunch, unless you're light on the trigger, but you can eke out a day on one. For example: https://www.componentshop.co.uk/7-4v-1100mah-20c-continuous-discharge-airsoft-split-pack-lipo-battery.html https://www.componentshop.co.uk/7-4v-1300mah-15c-30c-lipo-airsoft-battery-2-way-split-giant-power.html https://www.componentshop.co.uk/7-4v-2200mah-20c-continuous-discharge-airsoft-split-pack-lipo-battery.html I'm not guaranteeing that all of any of those will fit down your stock, you'll want to stick something down each side and measure it to be sure. https://hobbyking.com/ can also provide batteries, as can eBay or Amazon, but I'd hesitate to recommend any specific seller as with stocking levels the way they are, you might get stung with surprise import duties if they ship from abroad. I've not bought any for a while, so I can't give a firm recommendation as to brand or retailer.

What about over here? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jake-davison-lee-plymouth-devon-and-cornwall-police-south-devon-b1972875.html

In polite company, we disparage people behind their back, not to their faces. "Warriors" is a little cringe, and "warfighters" is also entering the lexicon, but there is a need to distinguish between the people who actually shoot and sponge bullets, and the ever thiccening rump of servicemen servicepersons who count beans, run creches, and police pronouns.

Is that the optic from the EM-2 bullpup? Did we just throw it straight on the FN?

I have assimilated this distinctive technology, and it sounds to me as though that gnu is cycling in reverse. You haven't gone and mashed a mini-Tamiya connector in backwards, or had a mate-who-knows-what-he's-doing wired in a Deans for you, have you?

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