Morrisons Supermarket Selling Imitation Firearms!

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Some of you know how passionate I am about the VCRA, so I was shocked to find these in one of their stores today:

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I've already prepared this news story for publication in the Daily Mail:

Morrisons Super Black Market - by Victorya Ukipy

The well known UK supermarket 'Morrisons' has introduced a new line: deadly firearms for children. For just £3 our reporter was able to purchase these two replica firearms. The guns are exact models of the powerful Glock 19mm that is used by police armed response teams and the MP5 assault rifle machine gun that was famously used by Osama bin Laden. Most shockingly of all our reporter was not even asked for a UKARA license to purchase these guns, which is a legal requirement in the UK. Outside he asked one of the Morrisons employees to explain how this was the case, however the employee failed to answer questions such as: 'don't you think there's a risk that kids might fill these with acid and shoot each other? Or that they might fill them with petrol and then fire them into the engines of cars that are only supposed to be filled with diesel?' The employee's comment was simply: "I don't know mate, I just get paid to push the trolleys." Well, as our investigation has shown, that's not all they're pushing. They're also pushing death on our kids. They may also have something to do with the rise in illegal immigration. Our investigation continues.
 
lol?

In all seriousness don't post that to the dailymail. Bringing their attention to UKARA and VCRA and our hobby will bring nothing good. Making them look silly with obvious bogus firearm names wont be something any of the general public will get, just imagine them taking that 100% seriously and them being outraged. We might laugh, they will lobby the government in mass with their morale panic and we'll loose our hobby. We'll still be laughing right up until the point RIFs and IFs are completely banned.

While we might chuckle about how ridiculous the law is in many ways the general public does not understand our entirely safe and consensual use of imitation firearms and would just prefer the entire thing was banned. Those of us that attend rifle clubs and such know full well that when asked what is behind the gate to say anything but "A rifle club". Its a womens institute, its a gay man speed dating session, even its an abortion clinic! None of those will have protests outside of them in the way a rifle club would if it was found out.

Below the radar, always.

 
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Longshot said:
Some of you know how passionate I am about the VCRA, so I was shocked to find these in one of their stores today:

10290620_10154207029350515_3331079097018660869_n.jpg


I've already prepared this news story for publication in the Daily Mail:

Morrisons Super Black Market - by Victorya Ukipy

The well known UK supermarket 'Morrisons' has introduced a new line: deadly firearms for children. For just £3 our reporter was able to purchase these two replica firearms. The guns are exact models of the powerful Glock 19mm that is used by police armed response teams and the MP5 assault rifle machine gun that was famously used by Osama bin Laden. Most shockingly of all our reporter was not even asked for a UKARA license to purchase these guns, which is a legal requirement in the UK. Outside he asked one of the Morrisons employees to explain how this was the case, however the employee failed to answer questions such as: 'don't you think there's a risk that kids might fill these with acid and shoot each other? Or that they might fill them with petrol and then fire them into the engines of cars that are only supposed to be filled with diesel?' The employee's comment was simply: "I don't know mate, I just get paid to push the trolleys." Well, as our investigation has shown, that's not all they're pushing. They're also pushing death on our kids. They may also have something to do with the rise in illegal immigration. Our investigation continues.
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W0W...They do look so real I nearly bought one but then the magic mushrooms wore off...

I sometimes feel that "scaremongers" like yourself do more damage than good,replica firearms is it...they are shillouette at best...and water pisstols.

Kids toys not replica firearms,water pi$$tols get a grip,I hope the Daily Mails ignores your message but as there's bugger all else to print..well done.

Who could possibly mistake them for firearms?Next the wonky sticks we used as kids will get people shot,and the tennis ball hand grenades...common sense must prevail.surely.

 
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I sometimes feel that "scaremongers" like yourself do more damage than good,replica firearms is it...they are shillouette at best...and water pisstols.

Kids toys not replica firearms,water pi$$tols get a grip.
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You say that, but the "silhouette" is the main description for it being a an IF (imitation firearm)

"A firearm shaped object which could easily be distinguished from a real firearm by the virtue of its size shape or colour"

By the law, these are IFs.

 
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We don't need this from inside the sport,we have to discern between the two,replicas and toys.

The original post got silly so it should get ignored..fill them with acid..why?what sort of background does someone who could consider that come from?and they have RiF's!

Imitation Firearms

An imitation firearm means "any thing which has the appearance of being a firearm

So to you that looks like a firearm?Your post does say shape or Colour..

 
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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.

 
Right, I just got an email back from Rebekah Brooks. She said: "we need more to go on if we're finally going to shut airsoft down." I prepared this for her:

Airsofters Try to 'Snuff' Out 'Risk to Children' - by Constance Curtaintwitcher

Following on from our damning story about the supermarket that sold firearms to schoolchildren for pocket money, we approached the 'airsoft' community, who approve of such activities, to gauge their opinion. Airsoft is a form of paintball, but unlike paintball it's not 'just a laugh.' In this dark world of make-believe grown men lure younger players to hidden 'sites' across the country where they're told to act out various fantasy 'scenarios' in the hope of one day earning the right to buy ever more deadly and realistic looking guns. One lead spokesman for this shockingly large and growing trade spoke to us, but would only be identified by his evil sounding moniker 'Snuff.' We told him about how the industry had been exposed by a concerned insider with a message of hope for change and better regulation and he nonchalantly replied that the message should be "ignored." During a frankly shocking confessional interview he went on to discuss "buggering" and how he had personally been involved with "tennis ball hand grenades." Will these be the latest tools to drag our innocent children from their safe and snug beds and into a world of terrorist training? (See our editorial. The answer is; yes, yes they will. That and immigrants.)

 
Ha,ha very good...you are one sad twat....it seems you live in a fantasy world,I grew up in the real world.

Your original post is poor,is the Mp5 a machine gun or assault rifle or hybrid?What would petrol do to my diesel Golf?Glock 19mm what both?Or can you not recognise the other...

I just hope you ain't sitting in your pants writing this but carry on if this pleases you!..I Doh!..at first did think you were serious TBH...

 
snuff said:
Ha,ha very good...you are one sad tw*t....it seems you live in a fantasy world,I grew up in the real world.

Your original post is poor,is the Mp5 a machine gun or assault rifle or hybrid?What would petrol do to my diesel Golf?Glock 19mm what both?Or can you not recognise the other...

I just hope you ain't sitting in your pants writing this but carry on if this pleases you!..I Doh!..at first did think you were serious TBH...
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snuff said:
Ha,ha very good...you are one sad tw*t....it seems you live in a fantasy world,I grew up in the real world.

Your original post is poor,is the Mp5 a machine gun or assault rifle or hybrid?What would petrol do to my diesel Golf?Glock 19mm what both?Or can you not recognise the other...

I just hope you ain't sitting in your pants writing this but carry on if this pleases you!..I Doh!..at first did think you were serious TBH...
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Sense of humour lacking..

 
Yep hold my hands up I got mugged...still not really a fitting post for a forum where the sport is under scrutiny..(that's not a defence btw) I got mugged... :wub:

I still think the poster is sitting in his Klingon onesie reading this....

I have got a sense of humour but I did believe this was serious and wasn't in OUR interest..doh!

Nuts I'm going to wash my bike..literally..and my Oshi-booms have arrived as I type...

 
In all seriousness the guns picture in the OP should be classed as imitation firearms as I understand the law. They are brightly coloured enough to loose the realistic tag but other than that they are modelled on real world guns in shape and features and hence despite the fact they don't fire real projectiles they would be classes as imitation firearms. Given that these would have a minimum age of 18 year old and yet I don't see an 18 sticker on them.

Could Morrisons in all seriousness be breaking the law by selling these to minors? Seems likely. Can the OP see if they can get a kid to buy one of these guns and record the whole thing, because such a breach of the law needs to be addressed seriously.

Edit - Infact the commencement order specifically mentions toy guns and the need to be bought by an adult. But just bare in mind testing if Morrisons breaks the law is itself an offence for the minor, they made both the purchaser and the seller liable there.

 
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snuff said:
Yep hold my hands up I got mugged...still not really a fitting post for a forum where the sport is under scrutiny..(that's not a defence btw) I got mugged... :wub:

I still think the poster is sitting in his Klingon onesie reading this....

I have got a sense of humour but I did believe this was serious and wasn't in OUR interest..doh!

Nuts I'm going to wash my bike..literally..and my Oshi-booms have arrived as I type...
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everyone always talks about 'the sport being under scrutiny'... by who? who is scrutinising airsoft.

I'm pretty sure at the moment we're so far below the radar of policy and law makers that they can't even be arsed to fix the laws we've already got.

 
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