Category: News

Since things are quiet on the UKAPU front I’ll shamelessly plug my latest #airsoft video! http://www.popularairsoft.com/news/claymore-airsoft-japan-part-1

Matt

Give this new store a look, currently running a 10% discount with promotion code BUALAUNCH

More stores means more choice and competition, which is good news to players like us 🙂

Matt Furey-King

These campaigners are doing great over in Belgium, making the players case heard after a news station showed photos of them and said they were terrorists, but I’ve learned not to ask airsoft players to write in without giving them guidelines (even then, its a risk). Half the time they verbally abuse the people you are trying to win over. The reason I went about making UKAPU was so we’d have a respectable, official way for players to put their voices behind, and it really works.

http://www.scoop.it/t/thumpy-s-3d-house-of-airsoft-scoop-it/p/4035770365/2015/01/22/airsofters-are-not-terrorist-followup-lucid-mind-belgium-softers-are-heard-facebook?hash=8772a372-49fc-43c6-89ee-1e3b83cfdbaa

I’ve got sad news to pass on to you all today. This weekend Ian Hay AKA Aitch passed away. Ian was a proper old school core airsoft community member, he’s one of very few people who has stuck with the hobby since the early days and kept on working hard for all of us. Although he used to be a very active player, the thing that particularly amazed me about Ian is that his declining health had him confined to a wheelchair for years now, and not practically able to airsoft, and yet he still remained pivotal in running various airsoft forums and building project guns amongst other things! He’s been there supporting UK airsoft players every day for longer than we can remember.

Ian was a vocal member of the community, well informed, considered and always ready to speak out for what was right even when it meant going against the flow. I’m one of many, many airsofters who are eternally grateful for his help and yet never met Ian in the flesh. I’ve chatted with him off and on since the 90’s, and traded a few guns with him too, but for me personally he stood out as an immediate, and loud, supported of UKAPU when we launched. Ian was always there for me as a sounding board too, a level head for me to bounce ideas off of. His consistent participation behind the scenes and in public helped shape what UKAPU became, as well as the UK airsoft scene as a whole. If you are new to the hobby I just want you to know how important Aitch was to UK airsoft, and if you are part of the old guard, then Ian will need no introduction and I’m simply here to pass on the bad news to you. Please feel free to leave comments below, it’d be lovely if we could pass on some of the communities thoughts to his family.

Next time you brew up in the safe zone, raise a polystyrene cup to Ian Hay, Aitch, fallen comrade; the word legend is oft overused, but here it fits the bill.

Matt

Hi all. The website is back up. If you want to volunteer then all I can suggest is that you leave a message on this thread in our forums http://ukapu.org.uk/forums/index.php?topic=140.0 and hope that the Chairman gets in touch with you. Membership applications are still closed. It’s frustrating for me too. Looks like we’ll miss the AGM this year, which has never happened before. Things can’t carry on this way.

Matt Furey-King, Consultant.

Ha ha ha. This is so true!!

Meet Cap’n Bruce Clark, the new Chairman of the good ship UKAPU.

Here are the minutes of our latest meeting- UKAPU is still the only airsoft organisation holding democratic meetings and being totally open about what we are doing. Something to be proud of. http://ukapu.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/UKAPU-management-meeting-July-2014.pdf

Best of luck (or Allah be with you) to the UKAPU milsim expedition, departing for Operation Protector in the Czech Republic tomorrow!