To qualify for UKARA you need to be over 18 and play 3 games in a period of no less 56 days, at the same UKARA registered site.

Definition of ‘airsoft’ gun 

2.4 An ‘airsoft’ gun as defined in section 57A of the 1968 Act is not regarded as a firearm for the purposes of that Act. Section 57A defines an airsoft gun as a barrelled weapon of any description which is designed to discharge only a small plastic missile (whether or not it is also capable of discharging any other kind of missile) and is not capable of discharging a missile of any kind above the permitted kinetic energy thresholds at the muzzle of the weapon (see below). A ‘small plastic missile’ is defined in section 57A(3) as a missile that:

a) is made wholly or partly from plastics; 

b) is spherical, and 

c) does not exceed 8 millimetres in diameter.

Section 57A(4) sets the maximum permitted kinetic energy levels for airsoft guns at:

a) 1.3 joules if the weapon is capable of discharging two or more missiles successively without repeated pressure on the trigger, and Guide on Firearms Licensing Law 7

b) 2.5 joules in any other case.