As an Airsoft player or Retailer it is your sport or living which the VCR Act had threatened to extinguish.
It is all of our responsibility to make sure we do not cause the exception we gained to be removed by foolish acts which although may not technically be breaking the law might lead to a threat to the concessions we works so hard to gain.

An example is purchase and gift of a RiF, this may be quite legal, but to do this with intent to supply non registered person would not be if in reality it was just a back door sale.

Split Deliveries, there is a view that if you break a RiF down into 2 or more parts then it will go through the Border Agency ( HMC ) without them realising that it will reconstitute into a whole RiF, as a case has proven recently they are wise to this and more than capable of seeing past the single box.

Elite Airsoft Essex have changed there name to Rules of Engagement their players will retain the same UKARA number prefix

We get frequent emails regarding this subject.

To be able to be an eligible customer to be sold a RiF you must be able to prove that you are a current member of a currently insured airsoft game site.

UKARA uses information provided by game sites to construct the UKARA database we hold showing all registered eligible game sites and players.

If for some reason a UKARA registered game site withdraws or does not renew your membership it will automatically mean your suspension as an active player / purchaser on the database.

There have up-to-date been over 51,000 searches made through the database to verify the eligibility of players to purchase RiFs.

Elite Firezone MSC have changed their name to All Arms Airsoft their new web site is not functioning yet but their players will retain the same UKARA numbers and the same letter code will be used for the site

Following our annual renewals a number of retailers will no longer be members of the UKARA database scheme.

Airsoft retailing is a highly competitive and stress filled business with very low margins of profit.

Please check the Approved Retailers list

The ex-members will be listed below the current list as non UKARA retailers, players or game site should not send in player forms for registration to these firms as they will have no way of getting them entered them onto the database.

We have had warning from the department who administer RoHS compliance [ www.rohs.gov.uk/ ] that they are looking very hard at the Airsoft sector of electrical imports.

Any item imported into the EEC has to conform to certain standards ( e.g. Lead levels in solder ) if it has any electrical components incorporated in it, or in the associated parts shipped with it in the package.

If you have a game site registered with UKARA and we do not have a copy of your latest insurance cover none of you players will be eligible to purchase RiFs using our system. Although all game sites are automatically emailed by the database in advance of there records expiry due to failure to update the sites email address or spam filters these emails may be missed.

The Database will shortly be updated, this is mainly to make it more efficient, easier to administer and give greater flexibility.

The item which may affect players is that when their registration is made it can now be set to expire 12 months from the actual date they were signed up, rather than when the form was processed. Currently the registration defaults to 12 months from the date the player form is entered by a retailer which may fail to follow the letter of the law.