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[ChiZZerS]

i have seen ballers play and fire electro guns
faster than lightning with..lets say.. 9-10-12 balles p'second
and this is mutch faster than a full auto gun
so why dont they just make full auto guns legal
they dont eaven fire as fast as an electro....?????

 

[Flash-Bugout]

Apart from the fact the home office says any fully automatic "weapon" in this country is a no-no (so quick, hide that Uzi ), in paintballing terms it's down to the potential for nasty accidents - eg, if you somehow caught your trigger and discharged a ball in a goggles-off area, using semi, you'd fire one shot, with a F/A marker, you could fire five or six shots before you realised it - possibly taking out both eyes of the innocent person walking past you, rather than just one.

 

[ChiZZerS]

you have a good point.. but in a safe zone
there shouldn't be anny guns with out bungs or safety on.
eaven if it did happen it would be due to the owner's fault
for not taking the right safety mesures..
or due to the people who run the site for not making sure
every one is doing what they should be..
eaven though a FA gun could take out more than one eye,
a semi gun could also take out 2 eyes (but less likely to)
but one eye is surely bad enough..

 

[ChiZZerS]

oh and the office also says semi automatic guns are also a no-no
(real ones that is)

 

[L J]

air pistols are semi auto and also guns as they are firearms

 

[Morter]

erm, sepiroth, I dont really understand the point of this thread (other than to bump up post counts) fully auto guns ARE illegal already...

 

[gaff]

re

i have to agree with Refoss, but will humour the thread

when you say FA markers can fire at 10-12 bps i think you are a little misguided. we done a test with an X-mag not that long ago and with a 12litre Air bottle feeding the reg (instead of a small 1.1 litre for more consistant pressure) and the test software installed for FA, we managed to get 36bps without a chop as well! so in that case you could empty a 140 shot hopper in less than 4secs. this i feel would take all the fun away from the game, cos we are getting 20bps in semi mode!

 

[dr.strangelove]

Originally posted by cockersrule
air pistols are semi auto and also guns as they are firearms

Were you joking? Cause anything air powered can't be technically classified as a firearm, since it uses air as a propellant rather than a controlled explosion.

There's alot of reasons FA isn't allowed, some have already been mentioned, but here's a couple more. For one thing, if you allowed FA at tournaments it would attract the wanna-be commandos from out of the woods, and those are the last peole that you want at tourneys (since they represent the sport to the public, and paintball is trying to get away from that image). For another thing, it's WAY too easy to overshoot in FA. While the ROF might be the same in a semi, try getting bunkered when 1 trigger pull = 1 shot, and then when 1 trigger pull = 3,4,5 shots

 

[Duncster]

I think our man Hotpoint could probably give you the proper reason as to what makes a fully auto paintball marker illegal, or even classed as a firearm. I seem to remember that it was something to do with muzzle energy or something, rather than how the projectile itself is fired from the "gun", in combination with how many projectiles are fired per single trigger pull.

I dunno...

Anyway, as to why we shouldn't have fully auto... I don't think muggings would be as much fun for the mugger, or the muggee for that matter, if you could just walk round a bunker, smooth as you like, firing around 20bps effortlessly. That would suck.

D.

 

[dr.strangelove]

The muzzle velocity and the way that a projectile is fired classify something as a firearm. Since a markers' muzzle velocity isn't even close, and since it doesn't use a controlled explosion, it is not a firearm.