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Modern Russian Camouflage variously known as SS Leto, Partizan, & Frog suits for £41.72 posted from Russian Federation = amazing price! ...this is the cheapest obviously modern Russian loadout of which I am aware. There are 3 listings with multiple choices in each = sizes: 50-4, 58-5, 60-5 / 48-5, 62-5 / 54-4, 58-4, 58-5 Russian Size Charts

So the petition seems to be doing quite well - 125K siggies at last milestone, so I decided to email my MEP's. I wont include the letter here as it's not short, but if any of you want inspiration for a similar letter of your own and/or are just interested, here it is in my Dropbox. To simply find out whom your own MEP's are and get in touch, go here and fill in your UK Postcode. Edit to add: your message does not get sent until you click a confirmation link in the email they send to you - i spose that's to cut down on the threats and abuse

WAS right hand universal pistol holster in A-TACS FG WAS PLB belt A-TACS FG Check the "Share a Bargain" thread for uktactical.com discount codes. Proffrink is right though - ASPUK are more expensive than airsoftpro.cz for exactly the same kit even including the shipping from the Czech Republic (which is part of the EU so you pay no VAT or import tax). But Darren is a good bloke and I'm guessing that if you can afford to buy 2 BASR's on the chance that 1 will be a lemon, rather than send it/them back until you get a decent one, you're not short of a few bob, so it's good that you're supporting the great resource that the whole ASPUK website is for UK airsoft snipers...

Here's 1 with 0 bids: good luck

Here's 1 listing; there are others. Apparently yes.

Soviet M88 Afganka Winter Pants - $90 posted from Minsk ~ fleabay SJ4000 1080P Sports DVR Car Full HD DV Action Waterproof 30M Camera Black - £15.19 posted

For £15.19 it had to be worth a punt, so I did! Thanks man! Doesn't come with a 32GB Micro SD Card, but they're on offer at 1p on fleabay so hopefully I can get one for less than a quid...

Or you could just replace the lenses with Lexan or some other polycarbonate of sufficient thickness to be BB proof.

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I find myself completely conflicted about ownership of firearms. While i am very sympathetic to Dave's stance, if for no other reason than that my general outlook is Libertarian, I also think that the issue is wider than simply "guns=security vs guns=menace" and my conclusions leave me feeling very uneasy. For e.g. why is it that there is more per capita gun ownership in Canada than the USA and exponentially less violent crime in general, gun crime specifically? How about Switzerland where it's the law that every household has to have a firearm? I would suggest that the reason is because the USA has very poor social safety nets, which leads to a much more intense competition between individuals*, which in general effect raises the baseline of animosity, therefore it takes less hassle between people for 1 of them to wig out... *I've seen this in the behaviour of Americans i've known who have spent periods of time longer than just a few months living here: when they go home for Thanksgiving and Xmas, say, and return their stress level jumps remarkably - it takes them a month, maybe 6 weeks, to chill out. However what makes me uneasy is that, ever since Thatcher, we have been placed on a path which leads, seemingly inexorably, towards becoming ever more like the USA. Wages are frozen or falling in real terms, versus the cost of living; the gap between rich and poor has never been greater since medieval times; many frontline services which our poorest rely on for help which is the difference between simple poverty and being trapped in hopeless poverty have been cut or will be soon (as the Tories squeeze local government budgets); if the Tories have their way we will see "workfare" and foodstamps; we are in the grip of a cross-party broad ideology which places "The Holy Market" as the prime mover in all things, yet it is an indisputable fact that no country has ever got out of recession/depression without massive government mandated infrastructure spending (which includes social infrastructure), but we are trapped in austerity instead. There are plenty of people in the UK of whom i would feel afraid if i thought they may be habitually armed: people like Britain First, the EDL, etc., but if they were also more stressed by their economic circumstances, I'd seriously consider emigrating. Worse though is that if we the people could be habitually armed, the police would be too and that worries me an awful lot - many of them are thugs with badges as it is, put pistols in their hands and i'm sure it'd end badly. I love the idea that it is the government who should be afraid of the people, not the other way around; that an armed populace is in a position to remove a despotic government. However look at what has happened in the USA: if there was ever a time when they could have been expected to use the power that being armed gave them, it was when JFK was assassinated... er, no, not a chance... why? Maintaining a grip on power is now a science and propaganda is its modus operandi. My conclusion then is that I feel that when it comes to ownership of firearms the status quo should be preserved rather than more restrictions be enacted - I can't make my mind up, so no change is best. More data may move me one way or the other, but for now I urge you all to sign the petition. You may be right that a petition will not affect the outcome of the proposed changes to law, however one thing we can be absolutely certain will not affect it is if you do nothing. It takes moments - please sign it!

You may get away with it 9 times out of 10, but the plastic is definitely brittle, and the one time you get hosed at close range may be the time it gives up the ghost and not only cracks but then splinters, allowing the rest of the stream of BB's into your eyes.

TL;DR = Legislation Creep is a real phenomenon - if people with an irrational fear of legally held semi-auto firearms, which are not the firearms used in the majority of simply criminal offences, nor in any terrorist acts, get them banned; there's a very real possibility that the bandwagon will gain enough momentum for them to come after RIF's and maybe even airsoft as a whole. Sign The Petition! re: IP-15-6110 draft to amend 91/477/EEC European Commission Proposals to strengthen control of firearms ('Fact' Sheet) Change.org EU : You cannot stop terrorism by restricting legal gun ownership. by stijn Vandamme On the morning of 7th January 2015 Terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, with fully automatic, unregistered and illegal firearms. Since then the EU has been preparing new legislation to ban semi-automatic firearms in the hands of law abiding EU citizens. Despite the fact that these weapons were not used by terrorists and are not even typically used by criminals. They use unregistred[sic], untraceble[sic] black market full auto Kalashnikovs. The new legislation has been on the back burner since April 2015, only to surface now on 18th of November, barely 5 days after a second attack in Paris. The victims of this tragedy have not been buried yet, the criminals are still on the loose and the police has not even finished the investigation and yet the EU is announcing measures to prevent something like that from happening again. Unfortunately nothing in the draft would have prevented these 2 attacks since neither were done with weapons that are now legal and would be banned with this new law. Nothing. It is not logical and above all it is extremely unfair. It is unfair to the victims, it is unfair to the law abiding citizens who's hobby and property will be taken away. Say NO to the draft proposal announced on 18 November 2015 Do not restrict semi-automatic firearms 'because they look like an automatic firearm' We the Citizens demand that the EU brings focus on the real problems: - That the external borders of the EU are not protected. - Our population has groups in it that refuse to allign[sic] with our democratic core values and our culture. (Personally I'm not convinced that this is actually a real factor in terrorism {but it's part of the blurb with the petition on change.org so I wouldn't leave it out}: just because it seems to make sense that it would be, does not mean it is actually happening; for eg that these terrorists in Paris have actually been sheltered or aided by any group/s living in the EU fulltime because this is where they choose to live {which seems to me to be the spin the more rabid anti-immigrationists would put on the petition author's statement}, as opposed to a group who may have come here as an advance party with the specific intention of later harbouring terrorists {which is an entirely different kettle of fish and should be dealt with by our intelligence services, rather than the kind of draconian measures the aforementioned mouth-frothers would call for.}) - Illegal arms trade is rampant within the EU. - Criminals and terrorists have easier access to illegal weapons then legal gun owners have access to legal arms. That is the current situation and this new legislation does NOTHING to adress[sic] those problems. The 18 November IP-15-6110 draft to amend 91/477/EEC is not only populistic[sic] in nature, it is also an insult to our civil liberties and to the intelligence of the EU citizens as a whole. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6110_en.htm Sign The Petition! My own view: Knee-jerk legislation almost, if not quite absolutely, always produces bad law. In this case however it is also the worst kind of cynical emotional manipulation to try to piggyback legislation which had been prepared previously onto a 'convenient' disaster as the only means likely to get it passed. It's not just an insult to EU citizens' civil liberties and intelligence, it's very disrespectful to the victims and their families.

Sorry, bought mine 2nd hand and wasn't told other than "clone probably made in China". It works fine within the limitations of its 20mm objective lens, which is something they all suffer from, but I suspect it's one of the cheapest though, so if I were you I wouldn't be worried by the hordes of ACM-naysayers out there and end up paying an extra £50 for what is essentially the same thing with a brand name on the box.

Makes me feel better by comparison anyway, Shortenhauzen. I'll be 48 in early January

Got an SSO smersh VOG grenade x5 pouch off someone on FB for £7.10 posted - he only wanted £6 but i gave him the rest for Signed For delivery = woo-dafuq-hoo! Arrived this am and it's great - my Oshiboom fits into it perfectly. All i need now is a noobtube and a bunch of TAG's and i'm well set to bring nadism to the masses!

Yeah, i'm on it...

I never said i wanted to shag Santa, although i dunno... i mean, i don't go in for genuinely evil sex, as opposed to a little evil roleplay for eg, but i hate xmas so much that maybe i could enjoy hurting the kiddie-fiddling jovial fat bastard... joke In as much as it was an off the cuff remark and therefore not really a plan, I spose what I vaguely had in mind was Santa bringing a talented professional round perhaps, but now i am thinking about it, elf ears wouldn't go amiss

Oh I expected they would be for people wounded/injured on the job, but not so much for an accident in civvies. I think there are a lot of employers who would worry about their on site insurance if they employed someone whose eyesight may be compromised and that person's job involved anyone else's safety though. I'm sorry but i've pretty much forgotten what you actually do - fettling helicopters for ops kinda rings a bell... and if so it's an alarm bell, mate ! Wow, you must have felt fucking terrible! I accidentally broke a mate's nose at uni - we were dicking around light contact Shotokan (me) vs Shukokai (turns out to be the weaker karate) sparring while we were waiting for some people to finish plugging a stage-full into the FoH desk and, even though i was pulling the punch, he was stepping forward right at that moment - instant Steven Fry off to his right. I felt soooo guilty... But it got worse when it turned out that he was secretly more than a bit vain, so when we got in front of a mirror, just the 2 of us, he started crying and trying to make out like it was just the pain making his eyes water again. But even that isn't the worst of it as I had to persuade him to let me manipulate it so it would start to set straight, because i had had experience with my own after my step-dad butted me in the face when i was about 14 but i didn't want to go to the hospital because my mum was working there in A&E and if she found out that it'd actually come to blows between him and I, while she was at work, it would have been just too bad to contemplate, so even though i did get a Dr. to look at it the next day it was already too late to get it completely straight unless he broke it some more. You see my mate (who shall remain nameless in light of the severely unmanly blubbing over a wonky konk) was refusing to go to the hospital also, mainly because we had an assessment of a multi-media live performance coming up and he didn't want to leave me in the lurch building sets & then trying to run video at the same time as i had the front of house live mixing of a few bands one after another to do (and during 1 song all the members of 1 large band except the drummer and bassist stopped playing their instruments and pulled out kazoos, so they all had to have a vocal mike as well, which created a potential mare for feedback) so if the show was going to go on, i totally did need him, although TBH i was willing to just fuck the talent off, take a referral and go for a C grade at a later date - that's how bad i felt about it. I lost touch with him when he moved back to Germany, but a few years after the event I got one more twist of the dagger: he had come over to the UK for a mutual friend's wedding and it turned out that he was about to have surgery because although it had healed pretty straight, his breathing through 1 nostril had never been the same and it made him not only snore like a chainsaw but prone to infections in the sinuses Somehow i think i'd have felt worse if i shot somebody in the eye though (and that's totally not me telling you how you should feel btw, i mean it was an accident, i just know i'd have been horrified at myself if it were me). See now that i just don't get... you've seen the evidence: you know ricochets do hit people in the eyeball past shooting glasses and you have a pair of Profile Turbofans, ffs! Well that is something to be grateful for. If airsoft had been around when either my father or step-wanker and I had been around each other i'd have spent the entire skirmish days looking for ways to shoot either of 'em in the most painful place i could manage i say "lol" mind: i'm not really joking... Dunno how old you are, but take this as consolation if you're not yet in your mid 40's - since being about 44 when pieces of my teeth come apart now they don't hurt much: the nerves are pretty much all dead. I haven't actually been to a dentist since '99 when at the very end of what had turned into prolonged maxillofacial surgery to sort out problems which had developed over the previous decade or so, I needed a simple filling and what with all the psych, tranquilisers to get me through the door, sedation during the treatment, and mates supporting me, I had gained a degree of confidence. The dentist who had undertaken most of the work on my teeth, as opposed to the surgeon who did the work on my broken roots, gums, bones, etc., was the head of the practice and on the day I was due to have this last little thing sorted he had to deal with an emergency patient... So, feeling this newfound quantum of confidence, I allowed myself to be persuaded to let another dentist who had just joined the practice do it and without sedating me. Thankfully the mate who was with me at the time is an ex-marine and sometime bouncer, because i would need to be held down in the chair or i think i may have killed this dentist - during the work, and bear in mind that i was physically trembling the whole way through and just concentrating like mad on not pissing my pants, the head of the drill came off in my mouth and rattled round the inside taking a couple of, albeit small but nonetheless actual, chips off other teeth and making my tongue bleed. TBH i really should have sued, but after Mark had sorted my head out, I just ran out of the place and never went back (strangely that tooth with the 1/2 finished hole in it is 1 of the few i have left). Turns out he was left handed and there is such a thing as a left handed dentist rig, but since he was new to the pracice his hadn't yet been delivered from wherever it had been previously, so he went ahead and used the rig that the previous bloke had left behind in the room he was taking over. I mean what an absolute cunt, right? Anyway, since i haven't seen a dentist i don't know if the reason for the nerve death is damage due to various abscesses I've had over the years (which do still hurt on the odd occasion i get one btw but i get antibiotics from my GP), or something which we can all look forward to as a consolation for old age. I'm pretty sure it's not the result of the peripheral neuropathy i suffer from though, because mouths are hardly peripheral, eh so you may get lucky. Wow it's all coming out this evening

So i got an email saying that there is a Matrix MG42 for sale on gunstar.co.uk - the geezer wants £400 ONO so I thought I'd just check how that compares to the price new and discovered... ta da!

Sexual favours...

He is lucky to have not had a much more serious injury however, given how close the hit was to his iris; one which could have compromised his eyesight to some degree permanently, and given what he does for a living, i'm pretty sure that would have spelled an enforced major shift in career direction at the very least, but perhaps being let go. Would the Navy keep you on in your current role if you had a permanent floater in the middle of the vision from one eye, for as long as it took to be able to get whatever operation/s needed and recovery time? Wholly didn't see that one coming, Batman! WTF? HTF did that happen? Not me in the first pic in the OP. The geezer asked me to redact his name as he works in a sensitive post. This is so typical of how it goes though, eh? Unless it happens to us, or somebody we know, so many of us are very willing to take unnecessary risks. Personally it's about my teeth - i have such a phobia of dentistry that i am at least as worried about getting teeth shot out as i am about secure eyepro! I remember seeing a documentary about risk perception a good few years ago in which they presented stats for accidents at railway crossings in Canada (iirc, could have been the USA) and they found that removing the barriers completely reduced the accident rates, because people would perceive the risk to be much more considerable and drive more safely, but with the barriers in place people apparently did attempt to race trains, either to get through before the barrier came down or to drive around them on the opposite side of the road at crossings with just a single barrier from each direction, both of which led to cars getting stuck on the crossing and wiped out by oncoming trains. I mean... really!?! I shit you not... Strangely enough, considering what i've written above, I clipped a single crossing of wires out of a face mask to leave a very small hole right in front of my lips through which i was hoping to be able to smoke (and trust me on this, my odontophobia is a serious condition for which i have had to have treatment when tooth pain has become so severe that, after months, i have had to face the fact that i had no choice but to go to the dentist because my entire life had fallen apart - just goes to show you how bad my nicotine addiction is too )... Well, it kinda worked on the smoking front, but not sufficiently well for me to have not wished i hadn't bothered But one time i ended up with a BB in my mouth which must have made it straight through this hole without hitting the mesh, because there was no sound. As with your experience though, no tooth damage, nor even a stung lip. I retrofitted a piece of stiff wire back across that hole though! It is this variability in our individual perception of risk which leads me to thinking that all round seal goggles should be mandatory though. Because, in the same way that someone choosing to massively increase their risk of a serious injury in a car crash by not wearing a seatbelt is not just about them, a serious eye injury in airsoft would not be just about the victim.

Lol, you missed out preventing forest fires! Now that i think about it, i remember that i refined the idea a bit further: rather than using stiff wire like a hamster cage to make a frame, hinges, and a spring latch for the door, i decided that copper wire would do for the hinge and velcro would make for a much easier way of making it open easily/lock closed.

Well yeah, but you did post it, so you still get the blame! I just made it easier for people to see just how bad your taste in YT truly is! Yeah, gotcha. It's kinda the same for me, but not as wide as you're describing. My plan is to try to hammer at least 1 of them over a spherical steel something-or-other, sorta like an anvil, but again, haven't got one of those round tuit thingumajigs... I know marshals aren't telling people during safety briefs, but that doesn't mean that the problem isn't serious - in the last year it happened at my local site to someone i don't know and now again to someone I do know. I forget the details now, but i'm pretty sure that when the incident @Skirmish, Mansfield happened and the huge series of discussions ensued, more than 1 similar incident was brought up in comparison. IMO if site owners knew how often these ricochet eye hits have happened they would be taking it more seriously, but let's have it right, we the players spend a lot of time on forums and FB discussing every aspect of airsoft, but that's not true of most site owners or even marshals... In any case, even if the majority of site owners/organisers do know the full extent of the potential risk, there are more reasons than wanting to avoid alienating players to just ignore it - there are some people in the business whom i am convinced are now in it purely for the money; that's not to say that they have always been that way and in fact i doubt that, since starting out is a lot of work with very little guarantee of success and TBF there are plenty of much more secure ways of making a packet off an investment. Nevertheless some people have done very well for themselves and, of those, some are known for some well dodgy business practices and even dodgier attitudes towards us their punters...

Yeah, not a bad idea except for the not being able to get at your mouth without shifting what is protecting your eyes in the game zone. I know i can get a sweet in me gob without exposing my eyes and the same goes for the tube of a hydro bladder, but on both days i wore my fencing mask stylee mesh mask, i had marshals giving me pretty severe gyp for doing it. And of course they totally rule out smoking... I have a vague plan to cut a hole in mine in front of my mouth and cover it with a hamster cage stylee door made from mesh - but like so much which is fiddly, since i've been ill i just haven't got around to it...

Hope you don't mind that I embedded your linked media - i would have left it if it was a functioning link, but for ease of forumming, you know... (to do it yourself you need the full url and select the [media tabs from the Special BBCode menu {3rd button from top left of editor}) and yeah, wholly fake self aware irony overload, Batman! The thing that bothers me is that I found adding the 2nd strap, plus joining them at the back with a sorta cat's cradle of paracord, did loads to stabilise that mask in the above photo (my mistake that day was to not tighten the straps enough, but at that stage in the mask's development my nose was getting squashed on the mesh cos the foam pads i added to sit on my cheekbones were not thick enough). I can't help but suspect that going back to a single point of attachment would allow it to move up and down more, unless it was viciously tight. I think I know what you mean, but I'm not 100% - are you talking about the bit where the nose part slopes down and bends in? If so i think it's mainly a case of finding goggles with a shape that tesselates with the mask well on your face, but you can also bend the mesh over a round piece of wood or something and/or change the angle that the mask sits at with interior pads - on both of mine, to get them to go well with ESS Advancer V12's+homemade mesh lens replacements, the angle and bend shape closes the gap under each eye, but leaves a small gap on my nose (which is only hittable from the side mind, because the nose piece does stick up in front). Yeah, that's what I would have thought. There must be a way to attach a 2nd strap to the forward end of each helmet rail though, eh? Although if the straps are comfy enough for you under the helmet, there's no need I spose... until you start to add a comms headset into the mix, muahahahaaaaa! (that'll be my alter ego, the demon gear addicter...) Yeah, but it's not just about each of us as individuals - the majority of people in the UK have never heard of airsoft, so if there was ever a well backed media campaign with an MP giving it the usual "do it for the children" speech, there are very few people who would oppose an outright ban, or even just legislation to restrict the power of guns to the degree of pointless bothering with 'em... and one thing which will make that likely rather than simply possible is someone losing an eye, no matter who they are. I've spoken to a site owner about this and he told me that the main reason they wouldn't do it was because they wouldn't want to alienate players. The way i tend to think about that however is that some people really got the arse over the law that made wearing seatbelts compulsory... if it is going to happen though I believe it'd have to come from the players in some way, but then when you think what it's like trying to get the average bunch of airsofters to follow not merely an indisputably good plan, but one which is literally the only one which makes any sense - I mean, you'll still see people nod, offer no criticism, put forward no plan of their own, even carry on nodding when somebody says something like "and you lot who are doing X will have to stick to it or those lot who are doing Y will have no chance" and then go and do precisely the opposite herding cats...