Converting de-activated guns to airsoft

Warren's your man to ask surely .

Warren's your man to ask surely .

Thanks, I've pm'd him

I am 99.99999% certain that its totally illegal to make a deac shoot anything!!!!

(Edit: okay you knew that... but its worth re-itterating, so I'll leave it.)

What warren does is take spare parts and use those along with custom made parts to make new guns. The parts were never parts of a deac so he's safe!

I concur with Yith on this one. I questiond a Sec. 5 RFD I know about this an age ago, and he said its not possible to convert one legally within the UK...

totally agree, we know the us alow some funny things to be dun with a de-ack and even live weopens,
but it is a BIG NO to do any thing in the good old UK,

its all about the action and the barrel mostly, so theres now point in even going there

I did talk to a guy (Beagle on ASCUK) from New Zealand who converted a real MG34 (or similar) to airsoft. Left the active bits in NZ and successfully imported it to the UK...

Because it was never actually a deac he was okay aparently.

At least thats what he told me.

Thanks Warren, looks like I'll have to go back to plan 'A'

We know Beagle - he plays at our regular site and we've been trying to persuade him to come to the Arnhem game.

I think he actually built the MG34 from scratch - hence getting around legality issues.

but at what point does it cease to be a de- ac say i haave a mp5 and a deacsten.... i then take parts off the sten to make the mp5 look like a sten... ? can i use real steel parts to enhaance and modify an aeg... where is the line?

I thought you couldnt touch the reciever, working parts or barrel. Furniture is fair game though, liek handguards, stocks etc.

You mustn't take the parts of a deac... any of the parts

Using spare parts that have never been on a deac is fine, though.

If a gun smith/proof house has classified a weapon as deac then can they not strip the thing, destroy the working bits and de-classify or write off as detroyed?

Is there some sort of central database where deacs are logged or is it just sufficient that you have a certificate with the weapon?

I assume the proofing house will have a record... I doubt anywhere else will...

It says on the bottom of the De activation certificate that it is a crime to copy it. I agree with yith, I think the proof house have copys but you cant get a copy if you lose the original, you have to get it re inspected at

OK, the qualified/registered gusmith strips the deac, re-submits deac cert & weapn to proof house and re-register as destroyed - can't be impossible surely?

A bit of a nasty thing to do to an antique though surely?

Much better to make your own from scratch or use spare parts...