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.

A meeting was held on 16th of June in Oxford of the committee and some ordinary members of UKARA, also invited for discussion later in the day were Ken Elston of UKASGB and a representative of a UKARA registered game site.

The majority of the discussion was about possible technical modifications to improve and enhance the workings of the database.

Indications are that the majority of retailers are happy with the way the database is performing, as designed, to allow safe sale of RiFs to properly entitled customers.

Would all retailers please us the private forum rather than cc mail shots if they wish to make comment in regards to UKARA affairs.

If you don't seem to have access and think you should please contact admin.

UKARA do not officially respond on Airsoft Forums as we have found in the past that it is very difficult to get a sensible discussion, it also adsorbs a great deal of valuable time trying to keep up with the latest posts, the thread soon tends to get hijacked despite the best efforts of moderators, we do however try to read relevant threads and part of below is an attempt to answer some of the more relevant points.

To be a permitted purchaser

The regulations are that you need to be a member of an Insured Airsoft gaming site and you have to have played there 3 times over a period of NOT LESS THAN 2 Months, not played 3 time inside a period two months.

Once you are a member of the game site you can be registered on the UKARA database as an eligible purchaser but you don't become a member of UKARA ( only retailers can ) or get any form of license.

There are now over 49 registered UKARA Retailers in the UK and 114 UKARA registered game sites.

UKARA has been involved with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive, or RoHS testing to ensure that airsoft imports have not been restricted by a lack of compliance, this testing means imported electrical goods have to prove they do not contain the banned substances and will be an ongoing progress funded by UKARA on behalf of its members.

If you are buying directly face to face from an Airsoft retailer you should as well as a game site membership card, or UKARA number reference have alternative identification such as a drivers license, or passport.
The retailer may well wish to check additional identification to make sure it is your membership card and not a borrowed or stolen card.

within a few days we will be doing a server upgrade this site and some others on the same server may be down but hopefully for just a day, this also means UKARA emails may bounce so if it does send again later when this site is back up.

When submitting a Player Application form to a retail please make sure that your game site has marked the ID checks as done.
Please make sure you send in the original form, a copy will be rejected and you will not be registered until the original has been received.

Game site and retail members should always use the normal URL when logging into the database.There is apparently a fake login page circulating to try to catch out the unwary into revealing their password.
The matter is being followed up but there is no possibility of the database being compromised.