As a responsible forum we obviously do not recommend breaking the law, however it certainly isn't irresponsible to point out that the Association of Chief Police Officers recently stated that the law as it stands, the VCRA, is unenforcible, thus nobody will be getting arrested for manufacturing an RIF out of a two-tone, be they 18, 8, a regular skirmisher, an escaped lunatic, or a person with an interest in skirmishing but not enough of one to be bothered with UKARA...
As intelligent human beings, most of us are aware that two-toning, UKARA registration, and the relevant section of the VCRA combine to produce a pile of shit, however the sad truth is that for the moment it is a legal pile of shit, so we must live with it as a hurdle in the process between becoming interested in airsoft and actually airsofting. We do not have to go out of our way to show respect for it, neither in letter nor spirit, nor do we have to talk it up as more serious than it actually is.
On the subject of transparent guns and completely unrelated to my comments above, you may be interested to know that if you take them apart and spray clear parts with any old cheap black paint, then when any black paint you spray the outside with gets scratched, it will not show. Those guns manufactured from orange or green plastic however are real bastards to turn into an RIF without significant money's worth of varnish and, if for no other reason, should be avoided like the plague. Obviously some brightly coloured guns are just painted and these are your best bet, because the paint can be removed very nicely without damaging anything simply by coating in Fairy Power Spray and leaving overnight.
TBH, renting 3 times to get a UKARA number so you can just buy the bloody guns the way you want them is easier than messing about with paint IMO, but hey ho, what do i know?
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