Rogerborg

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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Well, me, and it is jolly impressive. Whether it actually projects airsoft projectiles is an entirely different question.

MODIFY Other than that, top notch answer, I 100% agree.

Prison guard, looks to have been their gun training officer. Seems not to have a carry loicence though, might be interesting if that charge makes it all the way up to Clarence Thomas. His side of the story: 1:30 in the morning in the Bronx, gets hit in the back from behind with unknown projectiles, sees a car with a couple of good boys who never did nothing to nobody pointing a gun-shaped thing at him, fired back. The family's story: the whole neighbourhood was having a consensual water fight in the early hours of the morning, boys will be boys. You can pick plenty of holes in either side, we'll likely never know. I guess the take-away point is: don't start nothing, won't be nothing.

I'd also like to hear the casus belli, since there there doesn't seem to be any thinking behind their peculiar limits. Since HPA is regulated it shouldn't creep up over the day. Contrast with propane or CO2 which are likely to do it as temperatures rise. But they don't limit those to 1J at pre-game chrono. They may have had some incident where an HPA player "nudged" their regulator, or they may just not like seeing Proton Pack guns, but are too indecisive to actually ban them.

Hmm, I did wonder. Personally I have no problem with summarily doming anyone using them on unconsenting targets, but then I apply that standard to littering, or abusing disabled parking as well. If you could stop Hitler before he got started, and all that. However, a blanket ban will just result in more twitchy cops responding to "firearms" incidents of kids playing consensually. I have a minor addiction to 'Murcan policy bodycam channels on YouTube, and even when the cops don't roll up already primed to Tamir Rice someone, it's astonishing how many suspects seem determined to escalate minor offences into "you'll never take me alive, copper". And having let that genie out of the bottle, I can see no reason why it doesn't cover Nerf as well. https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYCadmin/0-0-0-6218 "It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer to sell or have in such person's possession any air pistol or air rifle or similar instrument in which the propelling force is a spring or air" That's the entirety of the statute definition. The case law is going to hinge on the word "similar". We're actually blessed with fairly clear description of what constitutes air-guns versus airsoft.

Yup, those are the other half of the comments.

They're quiet fairly clear about it in their published rules, although I do wish they'd knock off the legacy "fps" nonsense and start thinking and talking only in terms of Joules - and actually get the numbers right. Their "variance" jibba-jabba is unnecessarily confusing. All they need to say is: Electric, gas, CO2: 1.13J DMR: 1.49J, semi locked, 20m MED Bolt action: 2.31J, 20m MED Any HPA: 1J

Well, we're down the rabbithole now. I'm a zealous convert to minimising sugar intake for us sedentary Western imperialist pig-dogs. And anyone without an underlying health condition, in possession of any amount of body fat, and sufficiently hydrated, should be perfectly capable of turning fat into ketones and functioning fine. However, consuming carbs is just fine too if you're actively engaging in exercise. Citation: the Amazonian Tsimane tribe, who have superb cardiovascular health, a diet of almost entirely carbs, but are constantly active. tl;dr version - water + fat or food + water + a bit of salt + water and you'll be fine.

In before "u get wut u pay 4", anything with 2mm or so of polycarbonate is going to do much the same job for impact protection, and the production cost is just a few Yuan either way. Dropping big money on glasses isn't actually going to buy you transparent mithril.

Via their Failbook account. Their Supreme Court's ruling on constitutional carry seems to have sent NYPD deranged. Off topic because airsoft has apparently already long since fallen foul of their Antipodean antipathy to assault-style toys. I guess they already class those as air rifles, which they would be here too without our exception. Note that they don't mention energy levels, or projectiles, just "spring-loaded air pump" = air rifle = weapon = summary execution by gunshot to the head (or similar). What they apparently haven't noticed, but half the commentards have, is that Nerf uses a sprung piston, so should be equally as criminal. This ought to make for some interesting lawsuits. It did prompt me to wonder what the UK situation is with gel blasters. They don't enjoy airsoft's S57A exemption because they're not "designed to discharge only a small plastic missile". So if they can auto anything - and as the kids say, if it seats, it yeets - at over 1J then they're lethal barrelled and get bumped to Section 5, right? Unless they argue the apocryphal "frangible projectile" exemption for paintball markers that I've heard mooted but have never looked up. At this point it's just a game of who's going to be triggered into banning what sort of trigger-related fun next.

FTFY.

I've come to assume that he receives transmissions through his metal fillings.

The G&G CM16 / Raider guns used to be one of the default choices. There are now better guns in terms of feature-list-to-price, but for all that the G&Gs have a basic dial hop and no bells and whistles, they do seem to work very well, with no surprises. And performance on the field is much more important than features on the box. I'm also a fan of cheap red dot and reflex sights for airsoft. Unless you're running them on a blowback pistol slide, they'll hold enough zero for our purposes. Nothing wrong with Ali Express, they'll pay the VAT and duty (or at least mark it as paid) so the stuff should come through customs more easily. Delivery times aren't guaranteed, but with one exception, I've never had to wait more than a couple of weeks, top.