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Glass BBs?!

4.Made of high strenth/tough materials.

That suggests 'plastic' to me.  With some bad typo checking!

So hopefully they originally had 'transparent' and it got chucked out of whatever translator they used as 'glass'

 
They could be either:

Made of glass

Hard material for breaking glass targets (windows etc)

(Note that the advert does not specify airsoft - it’s selling ball bearings.

On a legal basis in the UK it’s a matter of what you do with them

In an airsoft gun my interpretation is that if you load one of these then you now have an air rifle / air weapon - and it might be an offensive weapon

For a paintball gun I know that if you load something like this then you have either an air weapon or an offensive weapon.  

 

The Home Office recognise gelatine paintballs and First Stirke brand ‘shaped projectiles’ as legitimate for paintball (as a retailer paid for the approvals testing of First Strike in the UK)

There are many things like this sold around the world in paintball sizes marketed as less than lethal / home defence   Which is illegal here in the UK (other than authorised police and military use) 

The eBay seller is in China so it’s a matter of eBays worldwide rules and whether they are targeting the UK for eBay.co.uk for its rules

The easy solution is to just report to eBay.co.uk

 
One of my buddies bought a bundle and included with it was a carton of glass bb’s!!

they do exist!

They were quickly dispatched to the bin! But horrifying to think of the consequences of a shattered glass bb after a mesh mask/ eye pro impact ?

 
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Phoenix feather airsoft has a video from a few years back at an event, someone was caught using glass bbs because someone got shot and it shattered on his mask causing his face got cut up underneath. 

 
Could well be glass as glass ball bearing do appear from time to time .

 
Wasn't there an incident years ago where someone had been using glass bbs and some vehicles ended up with broken windscreens? IIRC for ages afterwards the forums were full of debates about how dangerous they were

Edit: it was bioval bbb max

 
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Tactical Pith Helmet said:
Anyone come across these before?  I assume (hope) that they are actually plastic.  

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174606728485?hash=item28a75f3d25:g:y7QAAOSwJ4hY-Ge5

Glass is an extremely complicated material, I imagine that .28g glass BBs are a possibility.   
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The law states...
Police and Crime Act 2017

(5)After section 57 insert—


“57AException for airsoft guns


(1)An “airsoft gun” is not to be regarded as a firearm for the purposes of this Act.

(2)An “airsoft gun” is a barrelled weapon of any description which—

(a)is designed to discharge only a small plastic missile (whether or not it is also capable of discharging any other kind of missile), and

(b)is not capable of discharging a missile (of any kind) with kinetic energy at the muzzle of the weapon that exceeds the permitted level.

(3)“Small plastic missile” means a missile that—

(a)is made wholly or partly from plastics,

(b)is spherical, and

(c)does not exceed 8 millimetres in diameter.

(4)The permitted kinetic energy level is—

(a)in the case of a weapon which is capable of discharging two or more missiles successively without repeated pressure on the trigger, 1.3 joules;

(b)in any other case, 2.5 joules.”

 
Glass BB's are "face hardened" so its dangerous becase "concentrate" the energy of the impact so its "armor piercing" and can pierce PROTECTION EYEWEAR, or make glass explode.

 
Beats me. The ones we've been pointed at appear to be more expensive than ABS or PLA.  It's baffling, but... airsofters.

 
Sneaky said:
Just why?…..
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Because you can easily injure someone and you will have committed a firearms offence and its pretty much an offence to step outside the limitations of those boundaries described by the legislation.

PLASTIC BB not bigger than 8mm
The Rif must not exceed 1.3 Joules but many sites work on 1 joule limit or as near to that.

If you are found to be in possession of a RIF that exceeds that power or have used a projectile that is not within the permitted terms of the law, you are up for a firearms offence, which often means you having to surrender all your airsoft equipment and it then becomes illegal for you to own or for friends to lend you their equipment and so on, just being in a car with one and not knowing is going to be pinned on you. The fact its a firearms offence, it goes on your record and appears in any checks like criminal backgrounds and you may find travel by air a problem and face extra scrutiny by customs services and even get a marker for a periodical tug by the police.

You know, how much pain do you want to inflict on yourself?
 

 
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AirSniper said:
Because you can easily injure someone and you will have committed a firearms offence and its pretty much an offence to step outside the limitations of those boundaries described by the legislation.

PLASTIC BB not bigger than 8mm
The Rif must not exceed 1.3 Joules but many sites work on 1 joule limit or as near to that.

If you are found to be in possession of a RIF that exceeds that power or have used a projectile that is not within the permitted terms of the law, you are up for a firearms offence, which often means you having to surrender all your airsoft equipment and it then becomes illegal for you to own or for friends to lend you their equipment and so on, just being in a car with one and not knowing is going to be pinned on you. The fact its a firearms offence, it goes on your record and appears in any checks like criminal backgrounds and you may find travel by air a problem and face extra scrutiny by customs services and even get a marker for a periodical tug by the police.

You know, how much pain do you want to inflict on yourself?
 
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Somewhat off target.  I hope that you are more accurate when you play.

 
i'm getting reverse deja-vu, or maybe regular deja vu, swear i saw this thread a while back and replied to it?

 
AirSniper said:
you are up for a firearms offence, which often means you having to surrender all your airsoft equipment and it then becomes illegal for you to own or for friends to lend you their equipment and so on, just being in a car with one and not knowing is going to be pinned on you.
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Care to back that up up with evidence? 

AirSniper said:
The fact its a firearms offence, it goes on your record and appears in any checks like criminal backgrounds
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Just like any other convictions

It appears your knowledge of the law is almost as bad as your knowledge of physics 

 
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