Rogerborg

Normally I'd get all <ackchually> over this, but just for once I'm going to take a higher level view: OP lost a sale and created this drama through being overly paranoid, because nobody cares. Police forces and Trading Standards don't care. Nobody is enforcing this. No private seller is ever, in practice, going to be asked to provide a defence. Even if they were, there are no standards for it. A simple declaration by the buyer about the intended use would satisfy the letter of the law. UKARA, and all equivalent schemes, are suggestive, not prescriptive. Given any evidence that the buyer is a regular airsoft player, I'd have no qualms at all about selling to them. Oh, and nobody is going to care about GDPR complaints either. Not while there are feelings being hurt on Facebook.

I'd note that the best thing you can do with those AEPs is to switch to using a 7.4v lipo battery, either by wiring in a new connector, or by using an aftermarket battery like this one: https://www.airsoftworld.net/world-exclusive-lithium-polymer-aep-battery-li-po-lipo-7-4v-550mah.html

Yup to the above. The iron/plastic sights are neither here nor there given that you'll almost certainly throw some sort of optic on there. The X-ASR is only there for trigger protection, it doesn't add any features, and mine craps out with higher draw motors. I'd go Edge 2.0, or any of the Double Eagle FCS models.

Hmm, sorry that happened to you, and thanks for letting us know. It's pretty concerning that we're being targeted. I hadn't considered that we'd be worthwhile, but scammers can net hundreds per victim on each bogus ad. I admit to being a bit lax on this, but I've just changed my password to a rando one now.

Agreed, and I should hasten to add that I'm not criticising anyone for buying top end stuff. I mean, if we take the airsoft argument to its logical conclusion, there's no reason to buy anything more than a £90 CYMA.

Pro-tip: Shimming with red electrical tape gives you the most Joule creep.

But wh... ... oh. Fair enough, good point. Although it won't move by 6mm, so I'm not sure what sort of misfeed it would protect against. A fragment of BB? It's only going to be shoved in as far as the gearbox pushes it during assembly, and won't work forwards as there will be some spring tension against it, so it should be fine. I'd still wave a file at it though. It's airsoft, nothing is standard, and once you start mixing and matching, the onus is on you to make it all fit.

Well, you can, if you want to deflect (badum tsssh) from the question being asked. I'd rather have the cheapest rod dot than any iron sight. Whether it's worth having anything other than the cheapest red dot for airsoft use at airsoft ranges, dunno. Cheap I was raised, and cheap I will remain.

Oh, wow, remember his 6.44mm "full thrust" system. At least he's still selling BBs for it, in any weight you want, as long as you want 0.58g bio or 0.62g non-bio.

You may even be able to flog it for more than you paid for it. At least, PatrolBase seem to think so.

How good an optic do you need for slinging plastic out to 50m, when the slightest breath of wind will produce more of a deflection than the cheapest Chinesium red dot? 🤔

Ah, he's OK. Pushing the marketing pretty hard, but he's making a living from it now. Gameplay wise, he's never gone full Licking Mustard as far as I'm aware. As much as anything else greenish-brownish based, in European woodland, at airsoft ranges.

That's a 1990s solution that deserves a 1990's emoticon 8O Really though, it's a bot, it'll have used something disposable. Manual action or reaction can't keep up with automated spam, thus the suggestion that some sort of scripted solution might be better. If I wasn't so lazy I'd have a look at what Invision offer. But I am, so...

£800 https://www.uttings.co.uk/p134314-vortex-amg-uh-1-gen-ii-holographic-sight-amg-hs02/ £600 if it were in stock here https://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/vortex-razor-amg-uh-1-holographic-sight-24081-p.asp I guess the extra £200-£400 is because it's being marketed to airsofters. We do rather ask for it.

It's the exact same link in every post though.

Just wondering if there's anything that can be done about the spambot that's obsessed with creating new johnnyufafrN+1 accounts, reposting old content, and adding the exact same link to https://electroambientspace.com/how-to-play-slotxo/ every time. It feels like there should be a very-small-shell-script solution to this rather than having to manually clean up multiples of them every day.

Hijacking random accounts on forums seems like a lot of effort, but when we're talking about £250 of free money from each victim, with zero comeback, I can see why it might attract semi-organised crime. There's no way that sites can keep on top of these, we're just going to have to caveat emptor harder and harder. At this point, I consider anything other than PayPal goods and services (or cash face to face) to be 100,00,0000% a scam.

In the same sense that a chain-link fence will stop some BBs.

Maybe, although that's not one of the listed purposes, it's just vaguely implicit under section 7 because the potential buyer has given permission. That's what's confusing me about OP's original question. Who's looking up UKARA entries for random shits and giggles? We've established that those with access need to provide a number, they can't just browser the database or search by details. In practice anybody accessing it will be doing so because a buyer has asked them to, directly or indirectly, and provided their number. I'm genuinely puzzled as to where the problem is.

Since GunFire isn't interested in selling to the UK, I won't be going through their stock to pick out specific examples. Generally though, I'd stick to 7.4V lipo, as you can experience double-tapping in semi-auto with 11.1V. Some people get away with it, some don't - my SA-E02 EDGE double taps with 11.1V and an M90 or M100 spring on the stock motor. You might get lucky though, depending on the motor in the SA-B04, and the spring that you're intending to run. The SkyRC S65 is the charger that we're currently recommending for all batteries.

Can't see where I was disagreeing. I'm actually of the opinion that retailers have become too lax, given the apparent lack of policing of sales. That was my point: PatrolBase do accept things other than UKARA. As they can and should. They do seem to take providing them some sort of defence more seriously than other retailers, some of who sell and accept a completely bogus defence, and one which asks for a membership number, but then just lets you tick a box, as per this: Something that I actually agree with, because the defence concerns itself with future intentions, not past actions. Yup. My view is that if you have a game of airsoft booked for next weekend, that actually matches the "for the purposes of" defence more closely than what you might have done last Sunday. The caveat to all of this is that our defence was granted on a whim that isn't explicit even in secondary legislation, but only in an explanatory note accompanying it, which could be amended or withdrawn at any time. So while we all know that the current system is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard, it does sadden me to see airsoft retailers doing public end-runs around it with nonsense like "cosplay" defences, which just invites the banhammer to fall on us.

The Grangemouth / Falkirk case, and it looks like Police Scotland made a whopping great mess out of it by thinking that an airsoft gun was a real firearm, then doubled down once the error was made and changed the charge to good old Section 127, as a "menacing" communication. Since the case is done and dusted, is there a reason that you can't share the gossip here? https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/general-help-and-advice/what-is-a-ukara-or-airsoft-defence UKARA + Fully paid Halo Mill Membership + Played 3 Games (Evidenced) British Airsoft Club (BAC) SWAT PASS Combat South Re-enactment TV / Production Theatre Museum Civil Service

I'm struggling to see what the problem is. The whole point of UKARA is to provide this information. That's why we complete the forms. I can't think what nefarious purpose name, address and DOB could be put to, nor what other "personally sensitive information" is in there. In the Fiscal? The same prosecutors who fumbled this appalling prosecution of a chap who posted imaged of himself on Facebook, in a Facebook airsoft group, changing the charge when it became clear how badly they'd messed it up, and deliberately eliding exculpatory evidence, leading to an acquittal when they got caught? Those prosecutors?

Conceivably he was playing to the Licking Mustard rulebook, and had "pre-emptively positioned" himself.