Morrisons Supermarket Selling Imitation Firearms!

Come- on get a grip they are bright blue as advised...you're just teasing..

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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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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...by same people who scrutinise green-laners,the red-sox,Janet Street-fkin-porters gang,don't underestimate their power..the countryside is for everybody until you start interfering with their "freedom" to roam,i.e making it unsafe for them...

 
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Really?

Your telling me that those pictured toys closely resemble a real gun to a normal person? That's the working definition of a Imitation Firearm.

Did you know there are companies that sell "wild fruit" products but they are technically breaking the law because you cannot sell wild fruit, berries or nuts for commercial gain as it's technically theft. If they are commercially grown then it's false advertising.

Nothing gets done because

1) The Police/trading standards have better things to do

2) nobody cares

 
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You are all experts on pistols and the various models of them presumably, which models do the OPs pictured pistols resemble to you? If the answer is anything but "nothing real" then its an imitation firearm, because it resembles a real firearm. To me the left pistol is a 1911 and the right pistol resembles a 357 revolver. They are clearly designed to imitate real weapons. The fact they are brightly coloured is the one of the major points of the VCRA, its what distinguishes a realistic imitation firearm from an imitation firearm.

The fact its bright blue doesn't make an airsoft pistol resembling the same guns a toy, it makes it an imitation firearm. You could paint it 40% orange and 60% blue if you liked and that airsoft pistol would still be classed as an imitation firearm and look mighty similar to these water pistols. Otherwise we would have the 100% two tone gun that anyone of any age could buy. If we take a look on justbbguns (the one place I could think of that has air guns with such colours) we can clearly see guns that look very similar to these water pistols, an example - http://www.justbbguns.co.uk/product/518/2-TONE-BB-PISTOLS/344/GAS-PISTOLS/444/HG106-PISTOL. Notice on the right on that page where it requires you to confirm you are 18....they think it counts as an imitation firearm under the law and I agree with them.

Morrisons is wrong, its selling IFs to minors (presumably since no one has confirmed if it has an age restriction on its sale) in breach of the VCRA. They have probably raked up 100's of accounts of breaches of the law if not thousands at this point, there is a lot of jail time that is going to be served when they get caught. I think the law is pretty clear cut on the point, if you want to make a pistol it must not resemble any realistic weapon in use today or that has been built in the last 160 years or so. Which is why Tesco is using futuristic clearly nonsense shapes for their water pistols. I am deadly serious, I think Morrisons is breaking the law, and if they aren't breaking the law then the whole two tone 18 year old requirement we have for airsoft guns is nonsense as well. I think reporting Morrisons is potentially good for Airsoft, having a company with deep pockets try and argue its way out of thousands of years of jail time and fines could ultimately get us another type of defence or set a useful precedent in law. Or it will confirm what we already know, that two tone guns like these can't be sold to minors.

 
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Does anyone know what size they are?

a height of 38mm and a length of 70mm. An imitation firearm with dimensions less than this is to be regarded as unrealistic

 
I'm enjoying this thread waaaay more than I should.

Just to keep it going, I don't actually have a Smith and Wesson 4500 series (which I assume the semi-auto was based on) but here is a picture of my 6" Tanaka Colt Python and the 4" Colt Python water pistol/acid spraying death machine. I've also added a piece of 'wild fruit.'

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They seem like innocent toys but in secret, Morrisons actually direct them to pyrotechnics; they send children in large quantities to buy the so called "cheap toys" and they give them to the pyrotechnics.

The pyrotechnics then fill them with petrol and attach an ongoing fire at the end of the barrel. They are gonna get an army of them of and burn down da citeh.

 
Right you bunch of fuck nuggets

An Imitation firearm is something that - oh I'm not even going to bother with big words so we'll introduce an "acid" test?

If you were to take the Morrison's water pistol or replica of choiceand lay it on a table if front of a jury. Ask them if it's a real gun if they answer

1) yes, it might be or I'm not sure - Congratulations it's an imitation firearm

2) no, that's a water pistol from Morrisons', don't waste our time again like this or we'll kneecap you with a spade - unlucky, it's not an IF

 
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