New Home Defense Weapon ???!!!

A paintball gun would simply make a home invader angry.

There are pepper-balls filled with pepper spray for paintball guns. But if you're planning on using them in your house, that could be a bad day. http://www.rap4.com/paintball/os/less-lethal-live-rounds-p-3720.html

My paintballs are filled with meat tenderizer. Makes it easier for the dogs to digest.

To say they hurt can be an understatement. I have seen people lose teeth when a stray ball sneaks under their mask, usually it destroys a lip in the process. Most fields make you turn your marker down to around 285 fps but most markers are capable of shooting up to around 400. On our private field one of our only rules is keep it around 300. Some of the worst pain I've felt was a shot to the inner thigh from a hot running Tippman from roughly 15'. A face full of paint to an unmasked burglar could do more than deter them. That being said I would never rely on a pb marker as a real defensive 'weapon'. Compressed air guns are finnicky enough, C02 guns can be downright unreliable even if you keep up with maintenance.

This is that shot to the thigh. It took over a month to heal and I still have a scar from it.

I used to play paintball for fun. Yeah, it sucks to get hit on bare skin from close range.

Yes, they make pepperballs and even solid paintballs (for tech support or low-velocity reusable play), but one will blind anyone that walks down that hall and the other just leaves less of a mess.

Short of blinding someone, the only thing you can possibly do is bruise someone. No one will be scared off that you can't do by yelling.

I have played paintball, and while it does hurt like the dickens to get hit by one they are not a good choice for home defense. This is including using pepper-balls or other riot type ammo. I would use one for crowd control a.k.a. a group of people coming towards my house with the intent of looting/pillaging/rioting but I trust my mossberg shotgun much more to deter them. They do work well for stray dogs, as long as the velocity is set WAY LOW, as the picture above shows they can and do leave quite the mark. My brother used one paintball on a very angry dog one evening and the dog made the choice to leave the area.

They are a great way to do basic force on force training, and even more fun to just let loose with when you need to get the stress out, but they are not a viable home defense choice.

Just had a case cross my desk where some yahoo used one in a dispute over a drug deal. Apparently he kept his paintballs in the freezer to make it hurt more. Then another participant came up with a .22 revolver, and guess who ended up on Life Flight?

Someone suggested wasp spray.The kind with the big nozzle that shoots 30 feet.