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.

Spartan Airsoft has ceased trading and been removed from the list of game sites if you were a member there you will need to register at a different UKARA game site.

Game sites should remove any player no longer a member of their game site from the UKARA list, please edit the player through your access portal, by clicking on their number and un-ticking the Active box.
If a player is no longer a member of your game site they are no longer eligible to purchase RiF's and should not be on the UKARA database.

Originally it was intended for players to stay on the database providing they made a purchase which require their database entry to be challenged by a UKARA Retailer.

After consultation it was decided that the system would have greater integrity if Airsoft Skirmishers entries were updated directly by the games site or club of which they are a member.

The VCR Act allowance for RiF sales to players was made on the understanding that only players who are members of suitably insured game sites would be allowed to purchase, thus the need for member site to be able to remove non players.

Whilst it is not part of UKARA's mandate to gather information or take direct action against its own members or other retailers, we would remove any retailer prosecuted for a breach of the law concerning the application of the Violent Crime Reduction Act from our membership.

If a member of the public thinks any retailer is recklessly selling Realistic imitation Firearms to any non eligible member of the public they should contact their local trading standards or police. Ignorance is no defence in the eyes of the law.

UKARA needs to be notified of your new insurance expiry date when it is due for renewal.

If confirmation is not received before the previous expiry date the site will go into suspension on the database, you should received an email warning of this pending event if not please contact Admin.

We must apologise for an email glitch which has meant emails to the Contact gateway have been logged but not received.

We are working through this backlog as quickly as possible, if you have sent an important email which you could not find the answer to on our Q&A page please send it again. Post will be dealt with in priority so please refrain from the "I am 14 and want to import from HK variety" at least for the moment.

In event of player misconduct resulting in expulsion from a UKARA registered game site please consult UKARA Admin for protocol before making any entry changes.

We were represented recently by our chairman at a meeting with the Home Office. Once he has had a chance to digest the official minutes a statement will be made of any new or interesting developments.

The tone of the meeting would appear to have been more of a check on how things have progressed and are working in practise since the VCRA's introduction.

Please would game sites and retailers posting in forms and other information check they have put the correct postal payment on their envelopes.

Thank You