Toy guns, highstreet stores?

I cant believe shops like Poundland dont have them...

I did the same thing last year (To look like Arnie) and there was loads of choice! Pistols, Knifes, Rifles...Everything!

There not anymore Poundland type shops around your area?
 
Pop down your local shops tonight, I'm sure one of the resident hoodies could sort you out with a 'piece'.

Or maybe you could fashion your own :p
 
Sime said:
I cant believe shops like Poundland dont have them...

I did the same thing last year (To look like Arnie) and there was loads of choice! Pistols, Knifes, Rifles...Everything!

There not anymore Poundland type shops around your area?
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They don't have them because they can't sell them to most people legally.
 
Sucks that you can't get toy guns now. :/

I used to love having realistic guns when I was a kid. I remember making an M203 grenade launcher for my toy M16 as well. XD
 
I remember when I started working aged 17 I bought an 8mm Beretta blank firer.

I couldn't hear properly for days when I first rattled off a few rounds. In hindsight, how I wasn't slotted by armed response I simply don't know.
 
Tombo said:
Well there are no problems owning them, just buying them but you can use certain defences for that, which the op won't have.

You will be breaking the law if you buy anything that looks like a gun and it's not 51% bright coloured.
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i thought they usually just had an orange (or other bright colour) tip.

+1 for market there's loads in Leeds market.
 
They don't have to be any specific colour at all. The VCRA states that a R.I.F is anything that any reasonable person could mistake for a real firearm. Therefore an I.F (perfectly legal) is anything that is so designed as to be easily identified by any reasonable person as being a toy.

So any bright colours are fine, but the majority of the I.F MUST be brightly coloured.

The only people who can sell RIF are licenced retailers (basically Gun shops or airsoft shops) and the only people who can buy them are people who are registered as members of a insured airsoft organisation or possess a firearms licence.

In short if you purchase a RIF from a market stall or any other shop, both you and the retailer are breaking the law.

Of course, then there is the fact that if you carry a RIF in public place you can be arrested and charged under the firarms act. Again, you only have to do something that causes distress to the public to be in violation of the firearms act, it doesn't matter if said firearm is real or not.

Hence why the whole VCRA thing is a pointless entity and just something to appease the ignorant masses as usual.
 
Northwind said:
Anyone got a reference for this? The VCR Act (not Bill) has no such prescription.
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Well it pretty much translates to that.

Keyser Soze said:
i thought they usually just had an orange (or other bright colour) tip.
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Nope an orange tip alone wouldn't be enough to change it from a R.I.F to an I.F.

Eddie182 said:
They don't have to be any specific colour at all. The VCRA states that a R.I.F is anything that any reasonable person could mistake for a real firearm. Therefore an I.F (perfectly legal) is anything that is so designed as to be easily identified by any reasonable person as being a toy.

So any bright colours are fine, but the majority of the I.F MUST be brightly coloured.

The only people who can sell RIF are licenced retailers (basically Gun shops or airsoft shops) and the only people who can buy them are people who are registered as members of a insured airsoft organisation or possess a firearms licence.

In short if you purchase a RIF from a market stall or any other shop, both you and the retailer are breaking the law.

Of course, then there is the fact that if you carry a RIF in public place you can be arrested and charged under the firarms act. Again, you only have to do something that causes distress to the public to be in violation of the firearms act, it doesn't matter if said firearm is real or not.

Hence why the whole VCRA thing is a pointless entity and just something to appease the ignorant masses as usual.
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Agreed and factually correct, except you don't need to be registered for anything, you just need to use it for say airsofting and be an airsofter (among other defences but these are irrelevant now) Then again most retailers wouldn't sell to someone who wasn't registered with one of their known sites or a member of that scheme (forget its name)
 
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The whole replica thing is mad... Looking at crime stats, everyone says "Gun crime is up, live in TERROR!!11!". Gun homicides are down, and gun discharges are down, but possession arrests are up- because replicas and air pistol arrests are recorded as firearms offences.
 
http://www.funatyourfingertips.co.uk/products/Spy_Pistol-125-44.html

thats where i got my cowboy outfit and guns, was gonna get some proper cap guns, but then thought id be likely to get kicked out if bouncers saw me creating noise and smoke.lol

although i see you want highstreet stores, this website has 3 stores in newcastle named magic box, although if you dont live in newcastle obviously this post wasnt helpful.lol
 
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Tombo said:
It pretty much is though, wording aside.
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Wording aside :D What else is there to an act of parliament apart from wording? :) The parts which most people think define what a legal replica is only set out standards for replicas which are ALWAYS legal, it does not state that these are the only legal replicas. Unfortunately that's left as a grey area.
 
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