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[EyeFellOva]

Originally posted by dusty
Jose, no offence mate but you are a bit of doomsayer.........

name any recreational activity, baseball, squash, golf, tennis, cricket, remote control aeroplane flying, airsoft, paintball, ad infinitum and the tools of each of these particular sports/pastimes, in the hands of a thug or general hooligan can be deadly.

give a hooligan a golf club and watch the damage he does.......

adn as someone else mentioned, the internet, which lets face it is in almost every home, brings everything to your doorstep for the sake of a few keystrokes and a search engine.

True, but these sports are understood and reconised. The problem with paintball is it's still kind of underground in the UK. As the saying goes, "People fear what they don't understand" and the people that run the country don't understand paintball.

If you tw*t someone with a golf club, you're one nutter with a golf club, but if you shoot someone with a paintball you're one of those paintball idiots.. let's ban it!

I know it's a negative way to look at the sport but it's true. Until paintball becomes a more mainstream sport any incident is blown well out of proportion and all 'ballers get tarred with the same brush.

As forthe cost, the only time the price will come down is if, again, the sport becomes more mainstream. If more legitimate players buy more kit, then the cost will drop, slowly. Sites will always charge their rates, enough to make a decent profit, otherwise it wouldn't be worth it.

Hopefully, televising paintball will get more new players involved, more players will turn pro, more television coverage, mainstream recognition

That's in my ideal world anyway

 

[Liz]

Originally posted by dusty
Jose, no offence mate but you are a bit of doomsayer.........

name any recreational activity, baseball, squash, golf, tennis, cricket, remote control aeroplane flying, airsoft, paintball, ad infinitum and the tools of each of these particular sports/pastimes, in the hands of a thug or general hooligan can be deadly.

give a hooligan a golf club and watch the damage he does.......

adn as someone else mentioned, the internet, which lets face it is in almost every home, brings everything to your doorstep for the sake of a few keystrokes and a search engine.

The problem paintball has compared to other sports is that we use a "gun" and shoot people, which equates in many people's minds as war. And the number of people over the years who have told me they think paintball encourages yobs to move on from that to real guns is frightening!
In the UK we have the kind of governments these days who have a knee jerk reaction to anything where they think they can gain popularity - anyone remember the Dangerous Dogs Act? Thousands of well behaved dogs had to be put down because a few people didn't train theirs properly, or trained them to act in a way that was socially unacceptable. All it needs is one yob to shoot a small kid in they eye and blind them and all paintball markers could be banned within a month. And there would be no consultation with the industry about ways to control markers, because the goivernment would be in such a hurry to push the legislation through that they wouldn't take time for consultation.

 

[Dusty]

remember i live in northern ireland where paintball guns are seen as an improvement........................


lol

 

[ollytheosteo]

Stepping into the murky world of politics for a moment- Labour's new shrivelled majority means the Tories will be opposing any moves that aren't entirely necessary or might be expensive, so any knee-jerk paintball legislation will be harder to push through. We need to use this period of grace to make sure we can represent the sport as a bunch of adults using markers in a controlled and peaceful manner in contrast to the increasing amount of idiots doing stupid and dangerous things.
As far as JD being a doomsayer is concerned, I used to own a Brocock air cartridge revolver. The press started a stink using utterly imaginary figures from a couple of senior policemen and they were banned within a couple of months- no compensation, no recourse other than applying for a Section 1 firearms certificate and five years in prison for anyone found with one after the ban. It can happen- the fact that we care passionately about our sport won't make a shred of difference if the Daily Mail decides to make paintball their demon of the week.

 

[JoseDominguez]

Originally posted by dusty
Jose, no offence mate but you are a bit of doomsayer.........

name any recreational activity, baseball, squash, golf, tennis, cricket, remote control aeroplane flying, airsoft, paintball, ad infinitum and the tools of each of these particular sports/pastimes, in the hands of a thug or general hooligan can be deadly.

give a hooligan a golf club and watch the damage he does.......

adn as someone else mentioned, the internet, which lets face it is in almost every home, brings everything to your doorstep for the sake of a few keystrokes and a search engine.

This is the UK mate...........so rather than naming baseball, squash etc..... why not name Target shooting, air cartridge firearms etc...... you know, all of the sports involving "guns" that are completely gone from our shores. Do you follow the news? There's a growing movement to outlaw ALL airweapons...... we aren't included in this at the moment, because we aren't a problem ... yet.
So, not a doomsayer (not even sure if that's a word, think it should be doommonger)...... just don't have my head up my backside.
At the moment, casual marker ownership is minimal, most owners play paintball (rec/tourney/scenario etc......) and to be perfectly honest why the hell should anyone else need one? If you haven't got the brains to find a marker online without it being advertised as an executive toy, then you aren't bright enough to be handling one.

 

[Jon S]

Anyone noticed that they have a DIY CO2 fill rig?

If you use large amounts of CO2, you may want to set-up your own fill station. Large CO2 bottles are available to hire from BOC and Air products. Once you have your cylinder, simply attach the fill station to enable you to fill your own bottles at a fraction of the cost.

How likely is Joe Public going to be allowed to rent a bulk tank? I dont have any idea how you go about getting hold of them...but I'd have thought this is kind of thing definitely can't be taken as casually as Play make it out to be.

 

[JoseDominguez]

I think that sums it up for me mate it's trivialising something that already taken to lightly.

 

[JoseDominguez]

yup, just pay the rental on the tank. Actualy, when you think about it , you can order butane and propane over the phone and they are a lot more dangerous.
Anyway, nothing we can do about it, I just think it'll open the flood gates. But it was always going to happen.