that are designed to look, weigh and shoot at the same rate as the guns they replicate. And PAINTBALL has a bad rep!!
AirSoft
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Thing is Jon, with the Replica ban in the offing, they'll go.Originally posted by Hotpoint
Long story short. The energy level on Airsoft projectiles is so low they classify as toys not airguns and therefore fall outside Firearm Legislation
Nice to know that in legal terms Airsofters really are just kids with shiny plastic toys
Could paintball guns be mistaken for the real thing? Well if Angel-toting thugs bust through my mum's post office, then I'd say yes. She'd **** it.
Easiest way to avoid the chances of ever getting lumped in with the Replica ban is colourful anodising. My Red-Reverse Freak-Factory Impulse doesn't look particularly Uzi like
Anyway from what I've read the Police are most concerned about the Deactivated handguns or proper replicas which even trained firearms officers cannot recognise. I doubt we'd get dragged in because it would make the legislation look a bit daft and whilst politicians dislike being made to look like muppets the press never miss an opportunity to make it happen
As for breaking into post-offices with Angels thats the difference here in the UK, over in the States the average AK-47 toting Postal Worker would act as a deterrent to such an event
You think airsofts bad, you should see the video CD i've just been sent by asia paintball.com
Its three video's in one, with M16 paintball guns being used in a game in china, the music is dodgy and everything. The first video shows people playing the game (wearing sunglasses for protection), the second is a very bad atempt to show you how to strip the gun and the third is a well dodgy personal protection device that fires a rubber ball.
This video is so funny, its a must watch.
Anyone who wants this copy, just e-mail me your address and I will send you it.
Thanks
Andy
Its three video's in one, with M16 paintball guns being used in a game in china, the music is dodgy and everything. The first video shows people playing the game (wearing sunglasses for protection), the second is a very bad atempt to show you how to strip the gun and the third is a well dodgy personal protection device that fires a rubber ball.
This video is so funny, its a must watch.
Anyone who wants this copy, just e-mail me your address and I will send you it.
Thanks
Andy
paintball is trying to leave behind what??!! I was paintballing the other day, and we played bunches of games that mention everything up there(para-military image, camo's, "playing soldiers") For instance, we played a game about the U.S. Rangers vs. Neo Nazi's, i myself was in camo, and please tell me how many paintballers or "airsofters" go out there and say, "Oooh look at me, i am General Patton," because i know i dont. I dunno but arent there full auto paintball guns? How about the new Tippman A-5, which was made with some sub machinegun as the model for it? About the biodegradable part, the only place i have played airsoft is indoors, and i have no idea the answer to this, but are PAINTBALLS bio-degradable?
Paintballs have a glycerine shell and food colouring and fish oil fill, so yes, completely biodegradable ( and edible, though I don't recomend it)
Paintball as a sport ( as opposed to recreational paintball) has tried to move away from the image of a wargame. They wear uniforms that aren't camo, more like football or hockey outfits, and they don't call their guns, "guns" they refer to them as "markers". Players are concerned that the warlike association may lead to bans or restrictions.
I personally feel that there is space for both sides of paintball
Paintball as a sport ( as opposed to recreational paintball) has tried to move away from the image of a wargame. They wear uniforms that aren't camo, more like football or hockey outfits, and they don't call their guns, "guns" they refer to them as "markers". Players are concerned that the warlike association may lead to bans or restrictions.
I personally feel that there is space for both sides of paintball
As Darkwerks says, paintballs are fully biodegradable & non-toxic. The only environmentally unfriendly part of the sport used to be the old CO2 12 grams, which I haven't seen for many years.
Fully-auto may be allowed in the US, but it's illegal in the UK under the Firearms Act.
The problem is really the divide between rec-ball,which is a bit more relaxed and tourny which is trying to be taken seriously as a sport(no I don't want open up that argument again) and one way of being taken seriously is to distance itself from the (for want of a better word) military side.
As I stated in a previous post I've nothing against Air Soft as such its just this isn't the place for it.
I don't play tourny paintball any more ,being a devout rec-baller,but when I started paintball was all camos ,combat helmets and a large % of players re -enacting scenes from Platoon,its hard to remove this from paintball though the attitudes of most `ballers have changed it still exists and myself find the "rambo" element in paintball a bit sad.
As I stated in a previous post I've nothing against Air Soft as such its just this isn't the place for it.
I don't play tourny paintball any more ,being a devout rec-baller,but when I started paintball was all camos ,combat helmets and a large % of players re -enacting scenes from Platoon,its hard to remove this from paintball though the attitudes of most `ballers have changed it still exists and myself find the "rambo" element in paintball a bit sad.