yes but op will come across less people they can legally sell to. I am a colonial Marine cosplayer a few of my group have signed pulse rifles (personally don't go in for it) to be morbid this would be worth money if it was Bill Paxton rather than Michael Biehn . He charges £30/40ish for a signature and gun fire has pulse rifles for £184.00 so maybe get £200 for it. you might have luck selling it internationally you have the replica prop forum, the Aliens legacy forum
You’re surely not saying that cosplay is not a VCRA defence and that JustCos is a worthless fake scheme ???????!!!!!!!
It is based on a real fire arm though. personally wouldn't want to risk it. Having been round the con scene for over a decade there are cosplayers with no sense what so ever. Regularly seen people traveling to/ leaving cons while openly carrying weapons out side the venue. Couple years back someone almost got themselves in a lot of trouble walking to the train station in full riot gear with a "blood smeared" shield and an SMG strapped to his leg. Con organisers caught up to him before anything went south but he never understood what he did wrong.
fat middle age man in plastic armour carrying a pulse rifle inside a con at least 3 adults (general public just bring their kids along) every con will ask am i in the army and is the gun real.
Cosplayers (or just human beings in general) have an inability to think about potential consequences
Which is why it falls foul of the Bus to Clapham Comicon definition of FA Section 19 / 57 (4). IIRC, we had a bloke on here intending to open carry a Snow Wolf M41A on a bus because "not real gnu". ?
But VCRA S36 is a different and narrow definition. Parliament chose not to use the same broad definition, and they considered historical guns, so they could have considered future ones as well. As careful as I am (now) to sail on the safe side of the law, inventing offences where they don't exist is doing Nanny State's job
there were several live fire versions manufactured for the film( several live fire pulse rifles have been built buy American gunsmiths in the last few years). that goes for a lot of sci fi films and series. Does the replica have to be of a massed produced gun and if there is only one real fire arm does it not class as a RIF? That brings up the question does an Airsoft pistol carbine kit fitted with a pistol count as a RIF as there now a casing disguising it origin and therefore not based on a real fire arm?
All we can do is pray nobody ever does something incredibly stupid and there is finally a test case as I think we will all be screwed. To Add calibre is clutching at straws there are multiple pistols that are made in several different calibres that you would need to know what you are looking at to tell if it's 45, 40, 10mm 9mm .22 and that's just 1911sThat's... actually a very good point. Hmm.
As a speculative interpretation (we'd need case law) I'd infer that "make or model" implies something that has been offered for trade to that degree of specificity. Armat isn't a real make, and M41A isn't a real model. And yet, there are versions out there that can shoot real bullets (but not 10mm light armour piercing caseless).
This is the Culper Precision (make) Block19 (model), a real Glock encased in Lego. Discontinued, never offered for sale, but they did make one, with a model designation.
If I built just the Lego shell, would it be a realistic imitation of a real firearm?
