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    Airsoft shooting range

    Airsoft multi-gun range and pop up targets? :)
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    Goggles

    How about Smith Boogies? They are eyeshields with a face seal, elastic around the back and a number of 1mm holes for ventilation along the top to help ventilate out the top. The holes are too small to let any BBs in, and are spaced apart so you don't get a perforation prone area in the lens...
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    plate carrier or chest rig

    Not much to add, only you should consider balance when setting up your rig. A chest rig only loads on the front, so all extra weight will be up front. This is great if you only have about 6 large mags, the odd smoke or spare bag of ammo to put in the rig, and any extra goes elsewhere. There...
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    You just have to join the forum. To join UKAPU via their form, you need a...UKARA number.
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    In most shooting activities (hunting, targets) you are allowed or required to self insure which you do by joining an association which includes insurance in its membership. That permits the holders of the guns (licensed and police approved if they are Sec 1 guns), or not licensed if they are...
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    Do you feel like this in the morning?

    Most restaurants get away with half sauteed baby pak choi (the one that is no taller than 8cm), slathered in clear ginger sauce. Not too bad, actually! But not really a breakfast thing. I am too stingy to splurge on pak choi these days, and just use siew choi, so I need the extra time for the...
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    The insurance test for defence is not hypothetical, it is a reality. Here it is (VCRA, Regulation 2007): Defences to an offence under section 36 of the 2006 Act or under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to that Act 3. (1) It shall be a defence in proceedings for an offence under section 36 of the...
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    Ok, the problem as I see it: UKARA is an organisation that works through static sites which are the insured bodies. If a site ceases to be, it no longer has PLInsurance, so in a way, you don't benefit from that site's insurance (and therefore your defence) until you become a member of another...
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    Do you feel like this in the morning?

    Whaaa? Slice the meat thinly, each piece being not more than 13mm x 25mm x 3mm. 3mm slices across the grain. It will cook just fine, even if dumped in boiling (ebullient, not slightly moving) soup and taken off after about 45 sec, worked in to the centre. Works better with fresh meat, not...
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    Hmmm...I looked at the form and, for now, it's all roads lead back to UKARA. The chair is probably really busy now this whole thing has kicked off, maybe they might consider a proposal and vote on an alternative approach?
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    http://www.ukapu.org.uk/wordpress/ (Ken Elston, of Fireball Squadron, you were a fountain of knowledge and good sense, and airsoft owes you a debt.) Or, wot he posted 2 min ago...
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    I think the police actually don't want to get involved in further licensing because they are complaining that the FAC and SGC scheme is already underfunded. The ACPO want to raise FAC and SGC fees from £50.00 to £200.00 as it is http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22831522. If they smell a way of...
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    Do you feel like this in the morning?

    Seriously, put the veg in first, take it out when nearly done, then you'd have a nicer base for the noodles. The meat should only need a 'flash boil' at the very end otherwise it might start getting tough (parboiled meat). On the other hand, in the 5 minutes before getting out the door, a pot...
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    I totally get behind that one. I'm annoyed that Frank seems to have gone off half-cock, making representations to the ACPO about sales not going through UKARA's framework. Looking at the legislation text post -2006 (not something I had done before), it seems a much clearer solution has already...
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    VCRA & retailers undermining it

    It is 100% not the same thing, being Muslim and being an airsofter, with the exception of the numerical fact that both are minorities in population terms. However, the fact of being a numerical minority is not by itself a reason to suggest that you should behave subserviently when you are being...
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