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  1. i wasnt trying to say thats what you were suggesting, just merely taking your logic and twisting it slightly. let me do it a different way using your first sentance quoted above: In the UK you need a licence to own a 'wild animal' https://www.gov.uk/licence-wild-animal (this covers big cats, wolves etc). now the news never seems to report about 'lunatics' getting hold of a puma and going on a rampage. but you hear about dangerous dog attacks all the time. surely we should open up ownership of large predatory mammals because clearly the checks are working to keep them out of the wrong hands? as an argument it makes no sence, a smaller crime number/reported news is not grounds for opening up possession to people that dont need a gun, or in this case a puma. the act of limiting ownership is always going to reduce its prevalence. knives sadly are needed for DIY work and to cook or eat with, you cannot really control that beyond the age restriction to buy them. but an 18 year old wanna be gangster is still going to be able to buy one, and i dare say under 18s would also find a way (kitchen drawers are a good place to look). The UK's vetting of gun ownership is clearly working to a degree. that doesnt mean we should open that up to everyone in the country in some pseudo american way resulting from paranoia of a british invasion (we cant invade ourselves). i dont know about the others here feel, but i like knowing or at least assuming that the only firearms i get in close proximity to on the street are in the hands of law enforcement. there are plenty of people i do know that would jump at getting a gun that i am so glad cant. If things open up, the first wave of people, which i think you would count under, go through the process of getting a gun for the sole reason of 'i want one'. Then a chain reaction akin to an arms race happens as other people would want one just because you have one. permeating the populace to a point where the likelyhood of a disgruntled employee or bullyed teen that isnt quite suicidal takes said legally owned gun and uses it illegally, with a death toll and effective range that a knife could only ever dream of, were they sentient. what we have now works because the number of legally owned guns in public hands is quite small compared to the population in general. They also need to justify why they need to own such a weapon and the weapon needs to be suited to the intended job (H&S at work act anyone?). So here its hunting, sports or pest control using small claibre rifles and shotguns generally with ownership skewing majorly to rural areas. As a general rule, farmers, to quote Hot Fuzz. there is no need for anyone to be rocking military style firearms in this country, i know badgers have a nasty bite, but it is still no bear. as for zombie knives and all those weird stylised things. i agree, they should be controlled and certainly not be supplied with a live blade. but we all know angle grinders would solve that for anyone who really wanted to sharpen it...
  2. So lets give them all guns is your solution? I dont see how this helps your point? You're saying knives are worse because stabblings happen more often in a country with limited gun ownership? Guns serve only one purpose. Which on an island not at war and without large carnivorous animals like bears, they have very limited use publicly. Knives are however multi use so its not like they can be banned...
  3. The difference is a knife isnt going to get a death count as high as a gun and people are more likely to be able to out run a guy with a knife than a bullet. Remember those 3 terrorists who stabbed people in london a year or so ago... now imagine if guns were readily available....
  4. Thanks. Was bugging me that i couldnt find them again Found a fb post from them dated 20th of august advertising the preorders and saying when to expect delivery. The link to the storepage is dead. So yeah. Recently they must have recently taken the page off their shop.
  5. im certain i found them listed on a UK seller, saying the guns didnt meet their standard and were sending back the entire batch (after giving the preorders the option have have one or wait/refund) couldnt for life of me find out which shop last night when looking. i dunno if its because the shop page was removed. Just made me worry too much. but yeah, hopefully when all this delivery and shits passes to whatever the new norm is, providing its skirmishable (i dont want one to just be a wall hanger) then i will treat myself.
  6. Well, when you get, i trust there will be an indepth review and snag list from you. Really want one, and its annoying that its been badly reviewed, and appears in EU shops post brexit
  7. raptor MP443? Was excited, but apparently its a bit like the WE hi-power
  8. building funds for a new PC build and someone puts an awfully tempting LCT akm on here... bastard

    1. Sitting Duck

      Sitting Duck

      THE ULTIMATE GAMING SETUP...

       

      Well maybe mostly Home / Office...

       

      Well just general browsing...

       

      Ahh fuck it - I got a new gaming mouse instead

    2. Steveocee

      Steveocee

      Don't bother with hardware. The future is in the cloud. You don't get AKM's in the cloud.

  9. To follow on from my old status about an overly expensive camo. I ended up settling on marpat.

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    2. Monkman

      Monkman

      +1 to step away from the Multiglam crowd.. ;)

    3. kasaran

      kasaran

      Tbh. Im more often digi flora or tiger strope2. Cant remember last time i used multicam

    4. Skara

      Skara

      Beans ❤️

       

  10. I find it amusing when in the classifieds people who are selling multiples of one item say '£X each or all 5 for £Z'  When the buy all price is exactly what the individual cost would be if multiplied by the number of items.  Why word it like its got a multibuy discount? 

    1. Shamal

      Shamal

      Haha.

      Buy two for the price of two.

      Yay winner!!

      Hey wait a minute....

      Regards 

    2. alxndrhll

      alxndrhll

      My personal favourites at the moment are ‘collection only’... during a national lockdown.

    3. Skara

      Skara

      @alxndrhllthat is just to trick their wives/gfs into thinking they "want" to sell those items ;)

  11. considering how simple they are. Why are M79's so expensive?

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    2. lucaslu1709

      lucaslu1709

      I'll agree that they are pretty overpriced (especially the handheld version), but there is a fair amount of metal used, and a nice wooden stock as well. The large metal barrel and barrel assembly are also likely fairly expensive to cast properly, but apart from that like someone said before, a lot of that cost is probably from Nuprol's bottom line ;)

       

    3. hitmanNo2
    4. GeorgePlaysAirsoft

      GeorgePlaysAirsoft

      I'm not sure simplicity = cheap, or even complex = quality. ICS MGL a good point to raise. Whilst its' been literally years since the first and last time I held an m79 (can't remember if it was KA or the old CAW version), it was a solid bit of kit and a "quality product". On the other hand, the ICS MGL (which I have) is well, half the price.. and for good reason. The complex bit is pretty decent, and does what its supposed to do. But evidently corners were cut elsewhere, it is incredibly plasticy, there is lots of flex to it and it seems pretty fragile, I wouldn't want to drop it, and I wouldn't want to transport it outside of a box. Not a fan of nuprol but IIRC m79s have always been fairly expensive

       

       

  12. kasaran

    Best airsoft gadget ever

    should be attached to an Alien Pulse Rifle
  13. After almost a year I have finally sorted out the gear I want to run for my G3.  Now, what do do with the mag pouches I originally bought that were of no use to me.

    They are OD, fit 2 mags in each and fully adjustable with velcro flap.  Got em to fit Stanag, G3 and M14 mags, not AK sadly.  Possible ad going up when the missus gets round to looking at the postage costs.

  14. It might be, or the cheap dot was a fraction narrow and too shallow to reach the grooves (though it did fit my fine on the rail on my TM M14 socom). I filed the sight not the gun to get it to fit
  15. yeah I kinda like the looks, but can definately line up the ironsights much quicker. likely just leave it on for a skirm and decide after, tis only a £20 dot. considering i had to file down the sight to get it to fit the not to spec rail, its basiacally useless of any other gun.
  16. ...is it just me, or is it really hard to find and maintain a good sight picture through one? Got a little one to put on the Desert Eagle the wife bought me for Christmas. For the Call of Duty-ness look. But moving about with it, the dot vanishes, the slightest twitch and its gone. Definatly a detriment to effective aiming. The dot is so much easier to use on a stable rifle platform, so I guess I will stick with just irons for now unless anyone has any advice
  17. I looked at em. What sort of things were in the non special ones?
  18. with the paypal, pay in 3 instalments.  can you put down a deposit/first payment to make the follow ups cheaper?

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    2. Skara

      Skara

      You can't spec a PC for ArmA 3.

      Unless you work at NASA or something.

    3. kasaran

      kasaran

      @Skara oh, I still get arma'd but now, at least on not heavily modded maps i can have a decent view distance and frames.  I remember my machine before the last upgrade, the view distance was so low the UAV misson on campaign was to high to nothing rezed in on the ground.

    4. Skara

      Skara

      I play mostly KoTH and until a year and a half ago I had 40 fps literally everywhere on my craptop, 1.5k view distance on anything, now though, the game doesn't even start and sends me to a nice BSOD which also fucks up steam library -.-

  19. So a gun that fires 420fps stock (according to https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/asg-4-inch-co2-dan-wesson-revolver-pistol-silver ) has had its fps increased? is this still even classed as an airsoft gun? or is it now a funky sniper rifle? If the latter, surely you know the fps, kinda important to skirmish? though a lack of a hop up on this model would make it a pretty poor sniper
  20. Quick update Got it off. Used the wife's hairdryer on it and it came off fine. the 3rd to 7th run of thread had a threadlock on it. The metal was surprisingly warm, i had to get some gloves
  21. So far I have been lucky, but then all my guns are stock? So i havent actively messed them up? Overall, I have bought seven guns from TaiwanGun and Gunfire and not had an issue with any of them. I had a long period of communication with Gunfire because I would have prefered a wooden stocked SVD, but because of the price difference and brexit I was of with settling on the plastic stocked one. They made my order and held onto it without me making payment for 3 weeks waiting to find out from CYMA if they were going to make any wooden ones. Sadly the answer was no. Apparently they standard time with will hold onto orders without payment is a week. Im not sure how many other stores would do that for people, but it makes me a bit more trusting over them being reliable in regards to returns if there is a fault. But I wont lie, I'd likely try and fix things locally if there was an issue, unless it was a major fault.
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