Looks like you need a similar complaint to the editor of the Sunday express as well!!!!
Busy Monday morning eh..!
Busy Monday morning eh..!
Independent article
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"CAD/CAM Jockey"...
or 'Director of Research and Development for National Paintball Supply'
Which ever works best.
'Easily' modified to fire live ammo? has to be the biggest joke I've read in years. I've just been thinking about how I would do it... and it wouldn't be easy. To be honest if I were going to do it I would rather start from scratch and simply build a zip gun rather than convert a paintball marker. I'd also fear for my life putting live ammo into an aluminium marker body...
or 'Director of Research and Development for National Paintball Supply'
Which ever works best.
'Easily' modified to fire live ammo? has to be the biggest joke I've read in years. I've just been thinking about how I would do it... and it wouldn't be easy. To be honest if I were going to do it I would rather start from scratch and simply build a zip gun rather than convert a paintball marker. I'd also fear for my life putting live ammo into an aluminium marker body...
Looks like they have taken their website off, read something about that a minute ago..can only get headlines for Daily Express.
Yes, it was a farce, I don't usually get worked up about these things but if I had ever written such a poorly researched article in my area I would never have worked again! It just reeked of laziness, they probably just saw the Independant article and made something similar up along the same lines. It failed to make any distinction between paintball markers and replica/airsoft weapons.
The Express website is dog turd but the email is expressletters@express.co.uk Was going to write myself but I am sure it will be better if someone 'official' writes in...
The Express website is dog turd but the email is expressletters@express.co.uk Was going to write myself but I am sure it will be better if someone 'official' writes in...
Manike...
Did send a reply to that PM but yours is switched off dude!
Basically agreed....stated easier to start from scratch, even with limited knowledge a crude example could be made.
Enquired if your stil in the States and how its going/went?
Did send a reply to that PM but yours is switched off dude!
Basically agreed....stated easier to start from scratch, even with limited knowledge a crude example could be made.
Enquired if your stil in the States and how its going/went?
Here's the text of the Independents article, with thanks to the guys from APG for sending it to meOriginally posted by Hotpoint
Can somebody send me the article. Can't find it on-line
Oh yes. Manike is a Duchess
Executive war games fuel illegal guns market
By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent
10 November 2003
The boom in executive-style war games, such as paintballing, is providing criminals with a ready supply of guns that are being converted into lethal weapons, a confidential Scotland Yard report says.
The reports also highlights a small Derringer blank-firing pistol, which police say is easy to convert into a deadly weapon and has become particularly popular with the girlfriends of drug dealers because it is easy to hide.
The compact Kimar Derringer blank-firing pistol is "notoriously simply to convert," says the report.
"Derringers are particularly popular with female companions of 'Yardies' [Jamaican crack cocaine dealers] because of the ease of concealment."
To convert the Italian-made guns, a hole is drilled through the blocked barrel. "The whole process takes less than two hours and would cost usually around £50 in a backstreet workshop," the report notes.
The Metropolitan Police study concludes that one of the main factors behind the current spate of shootings is the conversion of replica and air weapons into pistols that fire live ammunition.
Gun crime in England and Wales has risen to record levels, with 10,250 incidents, including 80 murders, involving firearms in the year up to April.
The restricted internal report, "Tackling Gun Crime in London", was written earlier this year by officers from the Metropolitan Police's specialist crime directorate.
The report warns: "In recent years there has been an extraordinary improvement in the quality of the replica weapons available on the British firearms market, and, in particular, a rapid growth in 'air-soft', black-powder, CO2 or 'blank-firer' replica weap-ons, directed in particular at war games enthusiasts and at other 'sport shooters'.
"Replica weapons can be purchased directly from sports goods stores, gunsmiths or from Army and Navy-style market stalls, in stores dedicated to the pursuit of war game equipment and clothing, mail order advertisements that appear in gun magazines or they can be obtained from suppliers who advertise over the internet."
The air weapons are converted by drilling out the gas cartridge, which is used like a sleeve for the live round of ammunition to fit into. The airguns can be sold to anyone over 17 because they are not classified as firearms.
The Met believes most gun incidents now involve converted weapons.
The study says that the number of firearms incidents in London increased by about 700 to 5,410 in 2002. The most recent figures show that the Met secured a drop of about 14 per cent in gun crimes in the year to September.
Recent action against armourers includes a raid on a suspected mini arms factory in south-east London last Thursday. Police seized about 60 gas-fired, replica firearms that were being converted to fire live ammunition.
The firearms assessment warns: "A big threat facing the Metropolitan Police Service at present is the availability and use of converted replica weapons.
"The legal replica market of air weapons and blank firers is growing in the UK and there is no control system in place. Weapons are sold through a variety of means including sports shops, backstreet stores, magazines, mail order and the internet."
Whilst we're here, anybody want to complain to the Mirror about this article ?
It even contradicts itself within itself!!!
PAINTBALL ATTACK ON ILLUSIONIST Sep 27 2003
By Nick Watkins
AN unemployed man was yesterday charged with a paintball attack on illusionist David Blaine.
Henry Cookson, 28, allegedly catapulted balloons filled with pink paint at the magician's glass box by Tower Bridge early yesterday morning.
Launched from a derelict building nearby, one of the balloons scored a direct hit on the box, waking Blaine up at 3am.
Earlier youths set off a box of fireworks nearby.
The 30-year-old, who is attempting to survive 44 days without food, has been pelted with eggs, golf balls and laser pens, while some have goaded him by exposing their breasts and backsides.
Another man has already been charged with criminal damage and threatening behaviour after allegedly trying to cut off Blaine's water supply.
Cookson, of Hammersmith, west London, was arrested at the scene. He was released on bail to appear before Tower Bridge magistrates court on October 10 charged with causing criminal damage.
It even contradicts itself within itself!!!
PAINTBALL ATTACK ON ILLUSIONIST Sep 27 2003
By Nick Watkins
AN unemployed man was yesterday charged with a paintball attack on illusionist David Blaine.
Henry Cookson, 28, allegedly catapulted balloons filled with pink paint at the magician's glass box by Tower Bridge early yesterday morning.
Launched from a derelict building nearby, one of the balloons scored a direct hit on the box, waking Blaine up at 3am.
Earlier youths set off a box of fireworks nearby.
The 30-year-old, who is attempting to survive 44 days without food, has been pelted with eggs, golf balls and laser pens, while some have goaded him by exposing their breasts and backsides.
Another man has already been charged with criminal damage and threatening behaviour after allegedly trying to cut off Blaine's water supply.
Cookson, of Hammersmith, west London, was arrested at the scene. He was released on bail to appear before Tower Bridge magistrates court on October 10 charged with causing criminal damage.
PAINTBALL???? Its a f*ckin water balloon with paint in it!!!
Someone have a word this sort of crap is gonna cripple the sport.
I seen the paint balloon attack on the Blaine coverage and it was a massive splat on the glass i.e. atleast half a box worth of paint! Massive balloon confused with .689 of an inch paintballs??
Stupid Media!!!
Someone have a word this sort of crap is gonna cripple the sport.
I seen the paint balloon attack on the Blaine coverage and it was a massive splat on the glass i.e. atleast half a box worth of paint! Massive balloon confused with .689 of an inch paintballs??
Stupid Media!!!