Transporting a NON-RIF on public transport?
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Not everyone is going to recognise that it isn't based on a real gun.
If the granny over the road from you in No.17 or the concerned single mum walking down the road have even a single ounce of concern that it could be a real firearm, then you're in trouble.
Don't risk it.
Soft gun bags are relatively cheap on Amazon.
Or use a guitar gig bag if you have to.
The alternative is to sell it to me.
I still want a pulse rifle so badly ?
If the granny over the road from you in No.17 or the concerned single mum walking down the road have even a single ounce of concern that it could be a real firearm, then you're in trouble.
Don't risk it.
Soft gun bags are relatively cheap on Amazon.
Or use a guitar gig bag if you have to.
The alternative is to sell it to me.
I still want a pulse rifle so badly ?
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Check out Harry Stanley
He was shot for carrying a table leg with an accent
(Armed police were called out during the IRA bombing days to an Irish man with a sawn off shotgun, but in fact was a drunken scot with a table leg in a bag, who reacted as a joke by pointing it at the police who challenged him)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Stanley
Be sensible, you are carrying a gun like item in a public place
Bag it properly and ideally in a generic bag
Get a basic sports bag, and if you really really have to then wrap in some material and then bag it
He was shot for carrying a table leg with an accent
(Armed police were called out during the IRA bombing days to an Irish man with a sawn off shotgun, but in fact was a drunken scot with a table leg in a bag, who reacted as a joke by pointing it at the police who challenged him)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Stanley
Be sensible, you are carrying a gun like item in a public place
Bag it properly and ideally in a generic bag
Get a basic sports bag, and if you really really have to then wrap in some material and then bag it
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I might be able to take out the internals on my guitar case and use that, alternatively just stick it in a black plastic bin bag. It's only 1-2 buses straight to the site from here (20mins via car) so I can't forsee any problems, and if some cops did show up at some point I can just show them it and explain I'm on the way to a site or on the way home from it.
The guitar case is the better of the two options
Just for reference - are you calling it a non RIF because it’s a two tone or because it’s not a copy of a real gun?
A RIF is realistic if anyone thinks it is realistic, it’s legally not a RIF if it meets the legal definition of an IF rather than a RIF
But IF or RIF it depends on the precise circumstances of a situation.
We are not in America so the trend is for the police to not to shoot first.
But think ahead and you don’t need to test it out - and you also don’t need to find out how you will react in a high stress situation with guns in your face. The wrong first reaction would be to open the bag and show it isn’t real
It will be a RIF in the eyes of the VCRA and any bystanders
(Your first post says non-RIF)
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Sorry I meant non-RIF in my last post. Doing about 20 things at once right now.
I suppose I actually do still have the box for the gun so I can just carry that. Really need to invest in a proper case though for when I get my SCAR-H.
Still get the feeling I'm going to look a bit suspect wearing all this on the bus.
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Because you will look incredibly suspect, Pack all that shit up in a discrete bag and get changed into it at the site. Also its a RIF, it looks like a gun and it replicates a gun in that it fires a projectile.Sorry I meant non-RIF in my last post. Doing about 20 things at once right now.
I suppose I actually do still have the box for the gun so I can just carry that. Really need to invest in a proper case though for when I get my SCAR-H.
Still get the feeling I'm going to look a bit suspect wearing all this on the bus.
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Were you seriously considering carrying it out in the open on public transport, or trollin’ ?
Honest question
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But it IS a replica gun, its fires a projectile, it has a trigger, barrel, e.t.c...
I really fucking hope I'm getting trolled because I refuse to believe there are people that stupid playing airsoft.
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ffs, NNOOOOOO.
if you can afford a pulse rifle then you can afford a big enough half decent bag to carry it in.
If I thought you were gonna be stupid enough to "black bin bag" it, I'd dob you in myself.
don't be so fucking stupid.
rant over, have a nice evening ?
if you can afford a pulse rifle then you can afford a big enough half decent bag to carry it in.
If I thought you were gonna be stupid enough to "black bin bag" it, I'd dob you in myself.
don't be so fucking stupid.
rant over, have a nice evening ?
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I was starting to think you were trolling us for a laugh (and it would have been a good one!) that I was going to congratulate you on punking us all so well , but bud your really are a 1st prize grade A dick if you genuinely wear your gear out in public ! It’s spunktrumpets like you that’ll get the sport banned .
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as others have said the problem you're dealing with it joe public who will cry "ERMAGERD IT'S ISIS" at the first sign of something that looks like a gun. relying on someone having seen a cult film and being able to identify a prop gun from that film is not going to work.
gear wise you'd be best off changing. at most you can get away with camo trousers in public or if you've got something that looks sufficiently non-military (gorka's are great for this). i normally go with trousers and a t shirt then throw on my jacket when i get to the site. for sure don't be wearing mag pouches and the like.
if your circumstances mean you're going to be reliant on public transport then you'd maybe be better off getting something smaller like an aksu with a folding stock that can be chucked in a backpack without showing.
druid might be a little, direct, in his opinions but he's right, the last thing we need is for a daily mail "man caught with a replica FIREARM on bus!" headline getting even more restrictions put on our sport.
gear wise you'd be best off changing. at most you can get away with camo trousers in public or if you've got something that looks sufficiently non-military (gorka's are great for this). i normally go with trousers and a t shirt then throw on my jacket when i get to the site. for sure don't be wearing mag pouches and the like.
if your circumstances mean you're going to be reliant on public transport then you'd maybe be better off getting something smaller like an aksu with a folding stock that can be chucked in a backpack without showing.
druid might be a little, direct, in his opinions but he's right, the last thing we need is for a daily mail "man caught with a replica FIREARM on bus!" headline getting even more restrictions put on our sport.
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