How to preserve Paintball in the UK?

[Buddha 3]

Last weekend I was at the World Bowl in Germany (American football).
Much to my surprise, scattered all over the carpark and in people´s hands were flyers promoting paintball in general, and a particular site in general.

I think they are getting it right.

 

[kat trick]

I think registration will help.
I am going slightly off topic now but about 6 years ago caravan registration was bought about all caravans bought from that date are registered (CRiS) they charge minimal fees for checking registation status or changing ownership.
Some thing like this can only be a good thing. It would mean in 10 years time most markers will be registered and with a known owner. you could create a black list or whatever you wanted to do from that list. But it needs to be started now.

 

[Baca Loco]

Originally posted by kat trick
I think registration will help.
I am going slightly off topic now but about 6 years ago caravan registration was bought about all caravans bought from that date are registered (CRiS) they charge minimal fees for checking registation status or changing ownership.
Some thing like this can only be a good thing. It would mean in 10 years time most markers will be registered and with a known owner. you could create a black list or whatever you wanted to do from that list. But it needs to be started now.

Are you suggesting there was widespread misunderstandings about caravan ownership and use in the past or that there was the possibility of governmental intrusion into caravan ownership that registration has since solved?

 

[Baca Loco]

How is it there are 300 views, or thereabouts, and only 50 votes? Surely more than 50 peeps have looked at this yet didn't bother to either post or vote. Is that an ironic symbol of the level of general apathy or what?

 

[KitsuneAndy]

Could be that people like me keep coming back and reading the new replies.

If 50 different people have voted it only takes them to view the thread 6 times each to get it up to 300 views.

EDIT ADDED: Are you saying you've checked this thread at least 6 times, AD? TFP

 

[Mario]

ironic symbol is cooler tho

apathy is what paintballers do best. NObody wants to do any of the ground work. My best guess is within the next ten years some idiot will do something stupid with a paintball gat, and someone who wants to make a name for themselves will try and use us and in the end get us banned.

sites'll close, tournaments stopped, markers in to be destroyed etc etc.

 

[Matski]

Future's peachy then

 

[Mario]

you know it mate. means we get a valid reason to move stateside

 

[kat trick]

In answer to baco loco questions
CRiS was started by a small group of people sick of only having reciepts to say they own a caravan. It took a couple of years before they got manufacturers and the police on their side and to my knowlede still has nothing to do with the goverment.
(this is from old magazine articles i cannot find). It is still a small organisation and could be of some logistical help to us.

The caravan industry problem was caravans being knicked and no
record of manuacture numbers to give them back to the right people.

But couldn't we somehow use it the other way when we have enough markers registered. Only the people we want will be able to get hold of a marker?????

 

[Flash-Bugout]

The problem with the whole marker registration thing is unless it is actual law, can you honestly imagine www.makeafastbuck.com/old berts airgun shop stopping and saying "hang on, I don't want to make this money to pay my mortgage/buy my new porsche, cos these young scalliwags might get up to no good!"

It's like asking all the car manufacturers to only sell cars that can do over 70mph to people that are only going to use them responsibly on track days.

Never gonna happen.

The same as public acceptance. Seriously, stop for a second, take a step back, and view paintball as an outsider - in the grand scheme of things we're less than nowt, and the way things are going, always will be.

We need to get a proper, serious product together before we go and attempt to wow Joe "paintball=rambo wanabees/stag parties" Public. Sure, we've all got to have the dream, but shouldn't we sort out the product before opening the shop doors?