Since i live not far from the place where this 'accident' occured i can probably shed a bit more light on it than others due to the amount of coverage it got on local press.
What happened was basically some boys were playing with an air rifle, unsupervised and one of them accidently shot another in the head and he died. Unfortunatly people being shot by air rifles is a regular occursion in the north east and over the past few years there have been many cases of people being shot, including some losing their vision in one eye, however as far as i'm aware none of these shootings involved a paintball marker and were all carried out with air rifles.
The fact is that at the moment there is regulation on air rifles regarding how old you have to be to use/own them the main problem is the lack of enforcement (or difficulty in enforcement).
Personally i hope that any new regulation won't include paintball markers and given that i don't know of any shooting incident in this country involving a paintball marker perhaps the government will realise that the regulation of paintball markers isn't needed at this time
What happened was basically some boys were playing with an air rifle, unsupervised and one of them accidently shot another in the head and he died. Unfortunatly people being shot by air rifles is a regular occursion in the north east and over the past few years there have been many cases of people being shot, including some losing their vision in one eye, however as far as i'm aware none of these shootings involved a paintball marker and were all carried out with air rifles.
The fact is that at the moment there is regulation on air rifles regarding how old you have to be to use/own them the main problem is the lack of enforcement (or difficulty in enforcement).
Personally i hope that any new regulation won't include paintball markers and given that i don't know of any shooting incident in this country involving a paintball marker perhaps the government will realise that the regulation of paintball markers isn't needed at this time