Login or Sign Up
Logging in...
Remember me
Login
Forgot password or user name?
or
Sign Up
Log in with
Forums
Classifieds
Groups
Zero One Airsoft
Ground Zero Airsoft
Airsoft Festival
Today's Posts
|
Member List
|
Calendar
|
Forum Rules
|
Forum
Airsoft Related
Advice & New Players
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Zero One Ads
Collapse
Are RS uppers legal to own in the UK?
Collapse
X
Collapse
Posts
Latest Activity
Photos
Search
Page
of
2
Filter
Time
All Time
Today
Last Week
Last Month
Show
All
Discussions only
Photos only
Videos only
Links only
Polls only
Events only
Filtered by:
Clear All
new posts
Previous
1
2
template
Next
meddy
Captain
Join Date:
Aug 2010
Posts:
640
Share
Tweet
#16
8 July, 2013, 19:06
Re: Are RS uppers legal to own in the UK?
all this talk of pressure bearing stuff makes me remember that silly news report about some FBI bloke seizing a shipment of aeg's as from his tests the lower could fire live rounds when "fitted" to RS gun though the fbi blok never did elaborate as to what or how it managed to work and how many rounds it fired before it disintegrated
hoarder of ksc glocks currently 11+ parts and counting
Comment
Post
Cancel
dave38x
Brigadier
Join Date:
Jan 2012
Posts:
2728
Share
Tweet
#17
8 July, 2013, 19:08
Re: Are RS uppers legal to own in the UK?
I'd slap a dytac MB556k on the front of an AR just to see what happened. Of course I wouldnt cough up to get a REAL barrel threaded for airsoft threads though :P
How about say, a Viper-Tech flash-hider that is RS threaded, and made out of quality steel?
Shadow Stalkers Airsoft Team
Comment
Post
Cancel
pacey
Captain
Join Date:
Jun 2008
Posts:
673
Share
Tweet
#18
8 July, 2013, 19:33
Re: Are RS uppers legal to own in the UK?
SAAMI Pressure test of nato 5.56 (55,114 psi) that at the chamber but the gas has only one way to go. Well 2 if you include the gas return.
"I sincerely hope your next shit is a hedgehog" loki7491
Life in the fast lane........
sigpic
Comment
Post
Cancel
No1_sonuk
Brigadier
Join Date:
Dec 2009
Posts:
2691
Share
Tweet
#19
12 July, 2013, 13:55
Re: Are RS uppers legal to own in the UK?
Originally posted by
Heinz
View Post
TOBI is 99% of the way there. Muzzle brakes, however, do not have to be on ticket, though flash hiders do - Section 57, 1968 Firearms Act. Frankly, this issue is something thats been really getting on my tits in the last six months, as when a certain retailer (whose actively advertising the fitment of certain real-steel components on both Facebook and his Website) finally feels the long arm of the law tugging on his collar, it will paint Airsoft in a very bad light.
As to FPSEngland's comment, sadly, thats incorrect in the eyes of the law. An item manufactured as a Sec 1 or Sec 5 part still retains that legal clasification even if modified. This is the reason that straight pull centre-fire AR15s in the UK have to be built new from the ground up - as a straight pull bolt action - instead of being converted from semi-auto AR-15s
For reading, if you're interested:
"component parts". R v Clarke (F), 82 Cr App R 308, CA states that the component part of a prohibited weapon is itself a prohibited weapon. Although there is no statutory definition, the Home Office Guidance to the Police at paragraph 13.70 states the following:
The term "component part" may be held to include (i) the barrel, chamber, cylinder, (ii) frame, body or receiver, (iii) breech, block, bolt or other mechanism for containing the charge at the rear of the chamber (iv), any other part of the firearm upon which the pressure caused by firing the weapon impinges directly. Magazines, sights and furniture are not considered component parts.
R v Ashton, CA, 1 February 2007 seems to suggest that any part that stops the weapon functioning as it was designed would be a component part:
"Whether in fact this particular gas plug is a component part of a prohibited weapon, is a matter of fact for the court to decide the words have their ordinary natural meaning. as a matter of reasonable interpretation it means a part that is manufactured to the purpose screw or washer, would not be a component part for present purposes. Similarly, a component part must be a part that if it were removed, the Gun could not function without it."
So the end cap of a Sterling SMG would be a Section 5 part because it is what the main spring pushes against?
Comment
Post
Cancel
Previous
1
2
template
Next
About the Author
Collapse
Find out more about
tisane
Working...
Yes
No
OK
OK
Cancel
X