Rogerborg

Sorry to hear that. Now that we've heard about it, I'd be happy to discuss it, even though it's OT for a thread specifically about Licking Mustard. Did NAF offer any help trying to find and recover it?

Cheers, much appreciated - thanks for putting the time in.

How would they know? He has no qualms about booking in under fake names to get around bans.

Quite possibly. While "any thing which has the appearance of being a firearm" is an extremely broad definition, it's hard to see how a half-sized bright orange toy could meet it. The take-away point is that it can be prosecuted, and the process isn't one that I'd wish on anyone.

First, I'm not encouraging you to do it. Quite the opposite. But all you actually need is "a reasonable excuse (the proof whereof lies with [you])". There's nothing in the statute that requires you go to your local police for permission - and it's not like they have a statutory power to refuse. It would definitely be the sensible thing to do though. When I used to do swords-and-axes reenactment, we trained in public (and got a few recruits that way) but were careful to liaise with the local community policing unit, and had contact names and a copy of our public liability insurance to hand. Is this by yourself, or some sort of multi-person photo-shoot? I ask because there's a pragmatic difference in a rambler stumbling across you doing a Trenchcoat Mafia tribute act with a selfie stick, versus seeing you chatting a photographer wearing a hi-vis - the universal symbol for "it's OK for me to be doing this".

In the general case, yes. Not so much a two-tone - and we do see a surprising amount of of regret purchases of those. Barring a close personal inspection and test, I'd always assume the latter, and that any used purchase is no more than a shell that's likely to contain most of the internal parts, probably arranged in something like the intended fashion.

Careful now: he has a very specific set of skills.

Doesn't look like it, but he avoided jail. Even the Sheriff sounds disbelieving that it reached court, but reach it it did. Just keep your reasonable excuse to hand.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in cold sweat, yelling "No, the Bayeux Tapestry is not a primary source!"

All boonies should be tied up like that.

New? Unlikely, as FOB are out of stock, and I doubt Novritsch is big into two-toning for the UK market. https://www.ukfob.co.uk/Novritsch-Airsoft/SSG10/Novritsch-SSG10-A1-Airsoft-Sniper-Rifle Why the SSG10, out of interest? Unless you've got 60m+ of garden, you're unlikely to see much practical improvement over your JG VSR. If you're dead set on the SSG10, you could look for a used one - it's entirely up to sellers who they sell to. Or if it's purely for back garden target shooting and not for skirmishing, air rifles can be had for less, over the counter (other than in Scotland )

With the three saddest words in airsoft: "never been skirmished". ?

It's why I gave up historic re-enactment. The groups I was in were always trending towards "professionalism", i.e. committing to providing clients with more numbers, bigger living history displays, and showier arena performances. It got to the point where we were prepping and loading vans days before big events, and staying on after weekends to tear down, as the chap running each group tried to turn it into a career. Me, I just wanted to eat hog roasts and swing swords. Airsoft needs more hog roasts!

You mean, by the access roads at typical airsoft sites, right? In Minecraft.

Hmm, now that you mention it, I don't seem to have received any "Someone just..." notification when I changed my password this week.

A clause that only a lawyer could love. It's just begging for some juicy "What Parliament meant to say was..." case law. Nonsense, the Thompson doesn't shoot 10mm explosive-tip caseless standard light armour-piercing rounds. We know for a fact that sitting outside a bank with a bright orange springer - that everybody in the case agrees is a "toy" - can get you prosecuted and convicted.

That's the thing, I'm not sure that he does. His fans like to rattle off "You're just jelly of his success", but I actually pity him. I'd hate to turn a fun hobby into a full time job where I had to travel further and further to keep making and faking more and more extreme clickbait to chase those rare multi-million-view hits. And the tragic thing is that he doesn't even seem to enjoy it, or not in any way that's healthy, as he has to constantly surround himself with grief and conflict. When he looks back on his career, I wonder what he'll have to feel proud about as a human being, beyond Bigger Number Better. In terms of "yeahbut, where's the proof", there was a series of videos made 3 or 4 years ago detailing his shenanigans. He got them taken down with copyright strikes, and, as above, he does seem to re-edit the most egregious stuff after getting the initial views. He's good at what he does, there's no denying that. The incident that solidified my opinion was when he was deliberately shooting a couple of players in the face, explicitly to punish them, because "dead players don't talk". Well, they shouldn't talk about game issues, but: 1) If he was 25 or 30m away from them, how could he hear what they were talking about? 2) In order to do this, he was camping their spawn. That's typical of the stuff that I watched. The narcissist narrative is CHEETARS PUNASHED, but if you apply a bit of thought, he's often condemning himself more than the players that he's policing.

Ouch. Completely blocked, at source, or in the middle? That seems rather extreme.

Ah, yes, I'd be surprised if there's much margin in selling a "basic" branded motor. If I had to make an assumption, sight unseen, I'd guess that they're now selling the same thing redbranded as their cheapest motor, although whether M120-M140 implies "high speed" or "high torque" is a different question. In the UK we'd consider that high torque, but that's pretty standard in the US.

Wow, absolutely bang on: let's keep this one. ? Well, no, for the reasons @1967PF44covered. I'm sure we've been over this before. Firearms Act "imitation firearm" uses the Man on the Clapham Omnibus[*] standard. But VCRA "realistic imitation firearm" very specifically requires it to be an imitation of an actual make and model of (modern) firearm. Strictly speaking, there's no offence committed by selling an APS UAR, but it would be an offence (without a reasonable excuse) to possess it in public. [*] Remember we had that chap declaring that he was going to take a bus to airsoft sites while open-carrying a Snow Wolf M41A because everybody should know that it wasn't a real gun? ?

Not a clue, it doesn't seem to be listed on ASG's site. https://actionsportgames.com/en-gb/productcatalog/products/gun-accessories/aeg-internal-upgrade-parts/motors-parts What's your interest in it?

Ahoy and welcome. Have you played yet? How's it going for you?

None of his multiple personalities went? Eff me, I've just looked at the views his clickbait has been getting. What an absolute tragedy for our hobby.

Business rates are the big whammy in the UK. As soon as you have a roof, you get mugged for eye-watering sums, and it's hard to argue that a site is derelict while it's in commercial use. Oof, I wonder if CQB sites are going to be telling players to bring torches this winter, rather than turning the lights on.

Most airsoft guns are clones or variants of each other so there may be other parts that fit - especially if your retailer actually modified the trigger unit. https://www.airsoftsniperforum.com/ might be more help - this thread suggests that it's mostly VSR... except for the parts that aren't. There used to be another site - that escapes my searching now - that focussed on parts compatibility. I wonder if anyone else can recall what it was.