Violent Crime Reduction Act - does it impact on Paintball?
- Thread starter Gadget
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Yet again our wonderful goverment seeks to keep us all under ever tighter control. 1984 becoming a reality. But rember it's all to protect us. I just have to ask from what ? Fear is a great way of controling the masses. The Church used it for hundards of year. Keep the people scared they do as we tell them. Bloody nanny state.
calling paintball a "established sport" is laughable,and if you walked out on the street with a X7 and waved it around they would put holes in you. Airsoft is getting it this round paintball will be next.
we are almost trying to wrap everyone in cotton wool.
I think some of you are missing the point: The whole reason Airsoft is even mentioned in the VCRA is because Airsofters, realising that the (then proposed) VCRA would encompass their guns, fought long and hard to have provision made for them in the Act. They were represented in govt, every step of the way, at every reading and discussion in the Commons. The reason they are mentioned in the Act isn't the Govt thinking, 'ah lets pick on airsofters' but on the contrary, it was the Airsofters making sure they would be able to continue to play after the Act came into force.
As i said they campaigned for a complete exemption but only got a 'Defence in Law'. This gives them MORE than if they not had provision made for them at all in the Act. Well done the Airsofters.
As i said they campaigned for a complete exemption but only got a 'Defence in Law'. This gives them MORE than if they not had provision made for them at all in the Act. Well done the Airsofters.
The picture Gups posted will not fall under the VCR bill because its been painted in a rather fetching 'flower power' scheme.
This one of mine doesn't fall under the VCR bill believe it or not,i know,as a friend of mine as enquired about all our markers
So if you have a real deal firearm,paint it in a ridiculous manner and your ok,thats how stupid this bill is
This one of mine doesn't fall under the VCR bill believe it or not,i know,as a friend of mine as enquired about all our markers
So if you have a real deal firearm,paint it in a ridiculous manner and your ok,thats how stupid this bill is
Re balls
As I have said previously, we do not consider paintball markers to be firearms because they fire frangible ammunition which breaks up on contact rather than inflicting a penetrating injury.
The above is the reply the HO supply everytime I ask about paintball issues but they consider the fact that we operate within current airgun legislation as very responsible and would work in our favour IF an issue ever went to court.
On the reball question this is the reply I had and the reply I have posted on forums in the past
"The reason we do not consider paintball guns to be firearms is that they are designed to fire a frangible projectile which does not penetrate the skin or cause internal injury. A gun firing a solid ball might be capable of penetration or of causing internal injuries. If it is, then it is a firearm and its use in a paintball game would be highly problematic"
A Reball makes the paintball marker a BB type gun (hard pellet) and if it fires above 1 Joule then makes it into a firearm so you could have a problem if it went to court and it is 5 years+ for possession of a firearm.
This is info supplied in the past by the UKPSF but it crops up evey six months or so.
Steve
As I have said previously, we do not consider paintball markers to be firearms because they fire frangible ammunition which breaks up on contact rather than inflicting a penetrating injury.
The above is the reply the HO supply everytime I ask about paintball issues but they consider the fact that we operate within current airgun legislation as very responsible and would work in our favour IF an issue ever went to court.
On the reball question this is the reply I had and the reply I have posted on forums in the past
"The reason we do not consider paintball guns to be firearms is that they are designed to fire a frangible projectile which does not penetrate the skin or cause internal injury. A gun firing a solid ball might be capable of penetration or of causing internal injuries. If it is, then it is a firearm and its use in a paintball game would be highly problematic"
A Reball makes the paintball marker a BB type gun (hard pellet) and if it fires above 1 Joule then makes it into a firearm so you could have a problem if it went to court and it is 5 years+ for possession of a firearm.
This is info supplied in the past by the UKPSF but it crops up evey six months or so.
Steve
Don't forget the "up to 2 years per bullet"!
This could mean a potential sentence of 365 years.
hey over here in Australia they are classed as "semi-automatic" firearms so we need gun licenses for them, and they have to be kept in a gun safe along the same lines as a semi-auto rifle or handgun.
Don't worry guys, no matter what they do apart from actually banning paintball altogether you will still end up playing some how.
Don't worry guys, no matter what they do apart from actually banning paintball altogether you will still end up playing some how.