UKARA self check issue
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How did you do the self check?
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Fair enough. So,you checking your own or someone else’s?
Anyone, UKARA is only one of a multitude of defences, so we’ll need some more details
Anyone, UKARA is only one of a multitude of defences, so we’ll need some more details
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Your call then, if you’re satisfied they’re a genuine airsofter, fine. Any doubts, not fine.
Rogerborg
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Strictly speaking - the best kind of speaking - it's illegal with or without a UKARA.
A person is guilty of an offence if he sells a realistic imitation firearm.
If charged, it shall be a defence to show that the conduct was for the purpose only of making the imitation firearm in question available for [a variety of reasons, one of which is] the organisation and holding of permitted activities, which (probably) refers to airsoft skirmishing.
The reason that I'm linking directly to the Act, the Regulations and the explanatory notes is that - strictly speaking - there's no unambiguous answer to your question, since there's no case law on this that we're aware of.
For my own part, I'll note that UKARA only provides some indication of what a buyer has done, not what they will do, and it's a curious defence which requires the seller to predict the future.
A player could do 3 days in 2 months, then go 365 days without playing again, and still be assumed (by UKARA) to be an active skirmisher. That's a bit of a stretch to adducing a defence "for the purposes only of" airsoft skirmishing.
But the tl;dr version is anyone who's managed to ever get a UKARA is unlikely to be a person who'll do something with a RIF that will bring it to the attention of the State. That means that in practice it's just not going to be an issue for you.
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