Ian_Gere

Welcome back, mate. Plenty of new stuff to drool over...

It may be quicker to do it yourself - it definitely will be if you take the completed form to a UKARA registered retailer's shop and ask them to do it right there.

It would be more than a "big beasty" mate - it would be a fucking monster! I'm overwhelmed by foreseeable problems, I mean, basically you'd be R&D-ing a new gun from the ground up, but I'd love to see it done

When sites do it for you, they are usually posting the completed and stamped form off to a retailer for you, but there is no reason why you cannot do this yourself. Just make sure to get your form stamped after each game, because many sites are charging people, and/or requiring membership, so they may be slightly jobsworth about it if you forget to get a stamp one day and ask them to put 2 stamps on next time, if you are circumventing paying them to do it for you. There is no photo card, indeed no card at all from UKARA. And FFS it's not a licence! It's nothing like a licence. It has no legal standing. It is not required. Calling it a licence sends entirely the wrong message to anyone you speak to about it and leads to entirely the wrong mindset when thinking about it. UKARA is a trade organisation. It is they who could be prosecuted for selling RIF's, not you for buying. The UKARA registration is a way for retailers to find out easily if they can sell to you without fear of prosecution. Oh yeah and calling a UKARA number a licence gives you herpes.

Good luck trying to plead not guilty to a Public Order Act offence because the Act runs runs counter to rights enshrined in Magna Carta.

We will get a constitution if we want one bad enough. The trouble is that most Brits actively do not want to know enough about politics to understand what a constitution is, let alone why we should want one. Worse, they often become aggressive if you attempt to tell them stuff they don't want to know. Psychologically it's easy to understand - everyone in the UK knows that the way things are is fucked up, but most of us do not have a clear vision of what would be better, and even those vague ideas of what would be better involve considerable change, and quite apart from the natural post teen reluctance to embrace change which afflicts the majority of humans, let alone adults with children, especially those with something to lose, is the fact that wages in the UK have followed the same trend as in the US and, to only a slightly lesser degree, the entire western post-capitalist/corporate world: down compared to the cost of living. At the same time, despite the likes of Iain Duncan Smith, the safety net offered by the welfare state has become more robust, so that really only those so mentally ill that they cannot access services to which they are entitled end up completely destitute. The combination then is that the difference in income between the poorest and the majority has become more and more compressed, hence even the most minute differences in status symbols have taken on a degree of significance out of all proportion to their value or usefulness. Subconsciously then, anything which seems to threaten, or even just call into question, the economic status quo, the situation which has provided the finance for the car, the mortgage for the house, the credit rating which allowed the brand name trainers, etc. is treated as a threat to the very core of whom each person is. Added to this there are many people whose grip on power is extremely tenuous when examined from outside 'the system', even though from inside 'the system', ie from the perspective of those subject to said power, they appear to be unassailable. Be under no illusion that people in power and particularly those who may soon lose it do not employ others and spend a good part of their own working life to simply maintain their position by attempting to prevent change per se: conservative with a small 'c'. Hang on, that's a conspiracy theory, isn't it? Yes, it is. And the very fact that all 'conspiracy theories' tend to be lumped together in the popular media alongside the wildest ravings of the truly disturbed is itself a product of the very conspiracy I'm talking about! In truth, even if we did not have countless historical examples of conspiracies to gain or hold onto power to guide us, a simple consideration of how many people must be involved to bring about the events which determine who rules countries and that, were it widely known what those people were up to before/whilst they were doing it, their aims would fail*, then we must conclude that when political/economic power is at stake, conspiracies are the norm, not flights of fancy to be given the same weight as the claim that Her Maj is an extraterrestrial lizard. The question is not "is there a conspiracy?", but "how many are there and how are they manipulating my views?" This has been part of civilisation for so long that it famously prompted Cicero to ask, "Cui bono?" (as U2 were still gigging pubs at the time) and we should never forget to ask the same everytime we hear a piece of news. *for e.g. if Nick Clegg had told the electorate beforehand that he was very open to forming a coalition with the tories, how many Lib Dem voters who are socialists but were angry with Labour over, amongst other things, the lies told about weapons of mass destruction would have still voted Lib Dem? None. In this country then, to get any change which could lead towards a constitution, we must come at it obliquely, otherwise the conservative machine (with its champion, Rupert "Lord Vader" Murdoch) will squash it, or if the idea cannot be assailed without negative backlash, then personally squash/defame any of us dumb enough to call attention to ourselves as hardcore constitutional reformers, unless we not only have backgrounds completely without interest, but we also have the funds to retain top notch lawyers to sue when we are libelled. I would suggest that the most vulnerable group of those whose power is being partly exercised to simply keep things the way they are is Bishops in the House of Lords. Never mind the idea that if xtians have representation then, for the sake of fairness, other religions ought to have the same...** why should the religious have extra representation at all? They get a vote like anyone else and the reality is that, regardless of what people write on their census forms, the actively religious in the UK are by far and away a tiny minority. And we know this about the largest religion according to the census, xtianity, for a fact ,because even those churches which have not closed down only see large turn outs for weddings, funerals, and televised xmas events (and people may well miss the religious aspects of those services, but would they miss them enough to actually get their wallets out? The evidence suggests that few would.). That is the stick to beat them with... **Which may appear to be a progressive idea, but is in fact a reactionary wolf in sheep's clothing... it's just that saying so is exactly the sort of thing that will bring you to the attention of the conservative machine, should you ever be in a position to speak publicly on the subject.

So have you fitted a new hop into yours, SD, or is that just your impression? I ask because I'd like to know for sure whether a standard AK hop chamber fits into that plate arrangement. Self tapping screw holes into plastic can always be filled in and retapped. Not that I wouldn't prefer CYMA or D-Boys to make a steel AK-12 receiver, or G&P to make an aluminium one, but just saying that there are options.

Well yeah, Chris, I do totally understand, but in the same way that I feel fully justified in yelling at Tris, but nonetheless acknowledge that I was bang out of order, I would hope to find you a bit more contrite than you seem to be. Did you apologise for your bad behaviour?

Er... no it's simpler, like an image not like a url. I can't write it as you use the tag because then the editor will treat it as a live tag. So i will substitute these {} for the square brackets you should use: these []. {media}www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJ2Zmlgmmk{/media} If you watch that vid from 6:48-ish you'll see what i mean.

It's in the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the page, but i dunno whether the whole editor appears on iOS. You could try inserting the tags manually: they are [media and [/media & obviously close them with ].

James, please use the media tags to embed, it's so much easier to use the thread. It's in the menu which appears when you click the button immediately to the left of the Font drop down menu, in the editor window.

You can improve the efficiency of cheap ones by replacing the white LEDs with UV LEDs - they may appear dimmer to our eyes, but they are putting out more energy in the bandwidth which excites the glowing component of the BB's.

This may help also.

Excuse me, I feel duty bound to impugn your sexuality, sir!

Wouldn't hold Chris for an afternoon though, eh?

Not unless i can find another lift from or via Nottingham.

No it's not - just the group i was going to go with cancelled (well, the driver).

Well yeah, I wouldn't refuse a go on it... but it doesn't really live up to the hype, does it? Do we think that up angle on the Uzis was to counteract the sideways hop fail?

I nearly bought a Type 56-2 a couple of years ago when i had the overdraft intact, but I bought an Ares L1A1 instead (which turned out to have been a mistake). Quite apart from the fact that Agnes has never worked properly from day 1, I still regret not buying the RS just because RS... Even so, I would still go with a self build, because no matter how good a new RS is, I know I can build a better performing gun for less money.

No, Taliban is what I wrote and Taliban is what I meant. If anyone wants to argue the toss, I'll just say, "See me on the field: my hand built AK will outrange your NATO RIF and we'll be accurately recreating battlefield conditions in Afghan I could indeed, but I wont need to... as I'll be wearing this:

Been watching this for a while and it's come down in price, so: Mens Brown Shalwar Kameez Large - £9 posted ~ fleabay ...completes my Taliban loadout, muahahahaaaa! (just need to put a massive beard on a lower face mask)

Those gloves are neither waterproof, nor armoured. If you crawl through wet grass, or bushes, during winter, your hands will get very cold. And you do not even gain the benefit of armour. Hard knuckle gloves, at least protect part of your hands, from BB hits (which bloody hurt your hands, but mainly your fingers). You can get purpose made armoured gloves which are not waterproof, or motorcycling gloves which can be armoured and waterproof. Personally I wear fingerless hard knuckle gloves, like these but black, with a pair of cleaning gloves underneath, which are waterproof on the inside, like these but black: this allows me to feel small details with my fingertips, stay dry, and have some protection from BB hits. But when it gets very cold, I wear leather motorcycle gloves with armoured backs and fingers.

Yeah, I remember the other thread - i commented on it. I just didn't remember which E&L you bought.

Sorry I didn't realise that was what you were talking about to begin with. Oops

Well, let's be fair mate - your first post on a public forum was to ask someone to join you in a criminal conspiracy. Not such a good 'hello' eh? Yeah, we all know that the VCRA is bad law and that there are many ways around it, whether as a legitimate airsofter wanting to cut corners, as someone who just wants to mess about with a toy gun that looks real, or as someone with the kind of dodgy motives which the law is supposed to deter, but it is the law, and as such wtf can we, as a responsible forum, say to you? Chances are that you are genuine and that, if you do manage to acquire an RIF without a UKARA number, which can be done legally, nothing that you will do with it will ever see the inside of a courtroom, even if any sale was technically illegal. Nonetheless it is irresponsible to ask people to blatantly ignore the law, so please do not do so via PM or attempt to word such a request in any 'nudge nudge, wink wink' kind of way, or reluctantly we, the mod team, will be forced to sanction your account. I hope this doesn't put you off our corner of t'internet - welcome to the forums!