John_W

Which one would you join? The Popular Front for Airsoft, the People's Airsoft Front, the People's Front for Airsoft? Or perhaps the Airsoft Peoples Popular Front?

To echo comments above, we worry about Labour, but the Conservatives (who opposed the VCRA) had 14 years to repeal the act but didn't. The VCRA was a hobby horse of Hazel Blears, and was derived from the unpublished Home Office Consultation on Firearms (allegedly never published because the public gave the wrong answers, and unavailable through FOI). The manifesto pledge was: "Most respondents to the consultation wanted some controls on Replica Weapons, particularly sales to under 18s". This as we know became a total ban, partially overturned by the Lords. It was also based on a blip in the figures caused by instructions from the Home Office to Police forces to record unidentified weapons (where no weapon was fired or recovered so type uncertain) as "replicas" rather than "unknown". There are figures for the paltry number of convictions under the act since 2007 and no evidence that Replicas are a problem. As others have said, the next Government has much bigger things to worry about and the best thing the Airsoft Community can do is not draw attention to itself. One outlying poll predicted that. Other polls with larger numbers of respondent are still showing a 20-22 point lead.

Something Topical...

If you want reasonably simple, try Flames of war. The older stuff is white metal but the more recent stuff and the "Team Yankee" WW3 stuff is all plastic.

Everyone's favourite plasticine penguin versus a shape shifting alien invader...

From rhe group "Terrible art in Charity Shops"

Don't forget our "Nemesis" the Gun Control Network. It started with seven members and is now left with Gill Marshall-Andrews and his wife collecting newspaper cuttings. Despite all this they are still getting quoted by newspapers and politicians as some kind of expert source.

Surely it should be Dr David "Dee Dee" Sheldrake with his PhD from Harvard in Wound Balistics?

When I was a Noob, I sat at the feet of Mat Dean (Mobius Strip) and learned the way of the pistol, the secrets of upgrading the Holy Western Arms Infinity and how a .43 would cut through foliage and sting like a bastard. I tend to use .4s these days. Though I started out on fixed hop TM pistols and .25s

No, See Burn....

Ah yes. The days when we all wore surplus DPM, Western Arms made the best pistols (especially when tuned by Matt Dean) and Airsoft Dynamics were still trading.

Are we going to get wound up about how people pronounce Recce and CBRN as well?

Why not a cooling off period between registering and first post? Another forum I joined many years ago now verifies email addresses before allowing new users to post. I remember in the dim.and distant days of moderating UKASC emails had to be "proper" ISP addresses, but now everyone used GMail and Yahoo so it isn't practical banning "pop-ups".

Is that Kicking Mustangs Mum?

At least they didn't perpetuate the myth of the "ceramic" pistol that doesn't show up on metal detectors....

A name we will all know and creator of the Iconic handgun. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67831335

I can just imagine it. Him sitting alone in his bedroom in his ghillie suit with his "Sniper", "Shooter" and "Enemy at the gates" posters on the walls, surrounded by empty KFC buckets, stroking his rifle and muttering "nasty, nasty. We will makes them sorry, won't we my precious?"

I bet the moderation is strong in this one...

Not sure about rhe mini gun, but the Kalashnikov SMG further down the page looks nice.