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that's a 417!

haha, my first thought here would have been the BBs, I had a batch of fireball BBs once that managed to jam a speedloader, needless to say I chucked them immediately.

Are you high? the RICAS is made by Warrior, not Eagle, if you're thinking of the CIRAS (which the RICAS is arguably a clone of) then you're wrong, why would anyone wear a 10 year old, proven to be really uncomfortable and bulky design when they could wear a CPC instead? No one is issued the CIRAS anymore.

As far as I know it's all smoke and mirrors, UKSF were very much LBT/Paraclete in the old days and nowadays Crye all the way. As for differences between the JPC and CPC... pretty much everything except they both take SAPI plates, the JPC is (as the name suggests; JUMPABLE plate carrier) a lightweight plate carrier designed for jumping out of aeroplanes and when weight savings are absolutely paramount, the CPC on the other hand is all about maximum protection and load bearing capability. The harness on the CPC hugs your torso really tightly and makes wearing a heavy load (plates, grenades, magazines, water, etc etc etc) much more comfortable, the JPC doesn't really do that at all, since it's not designed to.

pretty much everyone with any kind of budget is using the CPC now.

sniper rifles generally (not always) don't have a significant range or accuracy advantage over an automatic gun or similar... stalking people is also significantly more difficult than stalking rabbits!

Sounds to me like there's something catching between the slide and frame, the gun will continue to release gas until the slide is about 3/4 of the way back and resets the hammer. If the slide is catching somewhere it'll take a lot more gas to overcome that resistance and reduce gas efficiency massively.

"Nothing has changed in law but most police forces have adopted this as policy, so will very probably prosecute any skirmisher who exceeds them. In simple terms, airsoft skirmishers should now regard these figures as the maximum UK limits for possession, sale, purchase, import and use." That sentence alone rubbishes the whole article. 'Nothing has changed in law' ... 'probably prosecute'? and on what legal basis will they approach the CPS? The fact of the matter remains that while those RFDs are doing it, doesn't mean they understand the law (VCRA, which is separate to the firearms acts I'm sure they're very familiar with) and are compliant with it. Selling a Realistic Imitation Firearm (e.g. an airsoft gun, which is NOT an air weapon as defined in the firearms act 1968) is illegal.

ACPO proposals aren't the law. Until parliament makes it official legislation that's worth the paper it's written on...

a little addition: Section 38 defines a "realistic imitation firearm" as "an imitation firearm which has an appearance that is so realistic as to make it indistinguishable, for all practical purposes, from a real firearm". As a result of "real firearm" (defined in section 38 (7)) imitations of pre-1870 firearms are not caught by the offence. Whether an imitation firearm falls within the definition of a realistic imitation firearm should be judged from the perspective of how it looks at the point of manufacture, import or sale and not how it might be appear if it were being misused. Section 38(3) provides that in determining whether an imitation firearm is distinguishable from a real firearm, its size, shape and principal colour must be taken into account.

yawn, not true, yet another airsoft myth perpetuated by those who have no actually read the law: An air weapon is defined, under section 1(3)( and 57(4) of the Firearms Act 1968 as: "an air rifle, air gun or air pistol which does not fall within section 5 (1) (a) and which is not of a type declared by rules made by the Secretary of State under section 53 of the Firearms Act to be specially dangerous". Any air rifle, air gun or air pistol which uses or is designed or adapted for use with, a self-contained gas cartridge system is a prohibited weapon: section 5(1)(af) Firearms Act 1968 e.g. a Brocock An air rifle is "specially dangerous" if it is capable of discharging a missile so that the missile has, on being discharged from the muzzle of the weapon, kinetic energy in excess in the case of a pistol of 6 ft lbs or, in the case of an air weapon other than an air pistol, 12 ft lbs: Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969 rr. 2, 3 (Archbold 24-8a.) Paintball guns are a type of air weapon. The Home Office regard self-loading or pump action rifled airguns (including paintball guns) as outside the scope of the Firearms Act, unless they are sufficiently powerful to fall within the category of a "specially dangerous" air weapon (Archbold 24.8a). Paintball guns could be considered imitation firearms. Unless an air weapon falls within one of the above exceptions, it is not subject to section 1 Firearms Act 1968. copied and pasted directly from the CPS website. At no point is any power limit other than the standard 6/12 ft/lb which makes an air weapon section 1. on the subject of whether an airsoft gun over a certain (1.1j? srsly? my M4 is 1.1 joules and it's full auto!) power is no longer classed as in IF or RIF... An imitation firearm means "any thing which has the appearance of being a firearm (other than such a weapon as is mentioned in section 5(1) ( of this Act), whether or not it is capable of discharging any shot, bullet or other missile." section 57(4). This means that an offence requiring "possession" or "having with him/her" a firearm or imitation firearm requires a "thing" which is separate and distinct from a person. Putting a hand inside a jacket and using fingers to force out the material to give the impression of a firearm falls outside the scope of such offences, as a person's bodily parts is not a "thing". (R v Bentham [2005] UKHL18.) R v Morris and King, 79 Cr App R 104, CA: when considering whether a thing has the appearance of being a firearm the jury should consider its appearance at the time of the offence and should also be assisted by the evidence of the witness who saw the thing at the time of the offence. Unlike with "Realistic Imitation Firearms", it is not always necessary to obtain evidence from the FSP on whether the thing is an imitation firearm. Evidence of the Firearms Officer will usually be sufficient expert evidence. An imitation firearm will be treated as a firearm to which section 1 Firearms Act 1968 applies if: it has the appearance of such a weapon and it can be readily convertible into a weapon from which a shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged (section 1 (1) and 1 (2) Firearms Act 1968). See readily convertible imitations elsewhere in this guidance

Utter bullshit.

Have never had to carry all my shit in a Bergan or use real cap mags, mid caps yes, but no one's ever suggested real cap. :-) give it a go, it's a very different way to play.

stirling and tier 1 have both been putting on a number of events a year for a very long time, they're definitely successful. Takes a LOT of resources to do it properly though, vehicles, command radios, people willing to 'be' certain roles (high value targets, leaders etc).

Nope... silly question; The copy of windows you've installed, is it legit?

Already being done to great effect by Stirling and tier 1 milsim.

Nothing wrong with using just a pistol, there's no reason at all why a rifle with a longer barrel will have longer range or better accuracy. My old 5-7 would send a .28 BB accurately out to 50 yards on abbey predator gas, if I'd had enough magazines for it I could have used it on it's own for woodland games... A rifle is easier to aim at distance though.

what?! how tall are you? the CO of 727 Sqn is about 6'4" and he still gets into a tutor fine!

MP7.

G10 repeater by any chance? hacksaw through the middle just above the trigger guard, then chuck it in the bin.

that's because no one uses IRC anymore... the golden days of gaming are long gone sadly

chrono is normally done with a 0.20g BB, it's not measuring the speed of the BB really but it's energy. A 0.25g BB going at 350fps has 25% more energy than a 0.20g BB.

get a thick washer or a bit of plastic tube to bridge the gap?

rebrands, elite force are like umarex or cybergun. I believe their tavor is the S&T one.

also; WTD || 5v5 || CPL || MR12 || ANy DE_ || ED PREM+ || OUR SERV if you can't decode that, you're not a CS player... you're just pretending!