New Home Defense Pepper Spray Gun - Paintball gun for home defense

[usmarine0352_2005]

The police already have these in .68 caliber. This is a .70 caliber version, most likely so you don't accidently fill it with plain paintballs. Now they are making it for the civilian market for home defense and touting 2 big differences over a gun. One, you don't kill your attacker and two, kids hopefuly won't kill themselves if they get their hands on it.

I've always thought these were a good use for crowd control and to have them use a paint color just like paintball, so that you can stop a rioter or suspect and also mark them so that if they run into a crowd you can easily identify them.


However, that's in an open enviroment. I can tell you that if you shoot a pepperball inside an enclosed space like a bedroom you have a very good chance of getting blowback and incapacitating yourself. Do you want to take the chance that you'll also incapacitate your attacker while they in fact may not be incapacitated. A lot of people aren't effected by mace/OC, because they are drunk, high, or just aren't effected by it. If they aren't affected and you are, then you're in big trouble.


Fill a room with OC/Mace and see what happens if you're in it. It's not pleasant.







http://wtvr.com/2015/10/28/new-weapon-designed-for-home-defense-is-called-salt/

New weapon designed for home defense is called ‘Salt’

POSTED 6:38 PM, OCTOBER 28, 2015

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A startup is making a new kind of gun for home defense: one that incapacitates, rather than kills, the intruder.

Salt Supply Co. has designed a paintball-style gun that shoots pellets filled with pepper spray that rupture on impact. The Salt gun is designed to be a safe alternative to traditional firearms so that nobody gets killed, including children who might discover the gun and think it’s a toy, or a family member that’s mistaken for a burglar.

“We keep it in our nightstand because it’s not deadly, you don’t have to lock it up,” said CEO Adam Kennedy. “You should feel comfortable having this by your bed, because your kid can’t kill himself with this.” Kennedy said that he co-founded the startup with his Chicago neighbor Andy McIntosh. Both men travel a lot for work and they don’t want to leave their wives alone and defenseless in a neighborhood where shootings are frequent. But their wives didn’t want guns in the house. So they came up with Salt.

The $300 handgun is powered by CO2 cartridges and holds seven .70-caliber slugs. They contain ghost pepper extract encased in a ball that breaks on impact like an egg. He said it causes the lungs to constrict, as they would during an asthma attack. He said the shooter does not have to hit the intruder directly, since every shot releases a five-foot spray of pepper extract.

 

[MErl]

I cannot wait to be hit by one of those from a random drive by paintball. (yes people do it)

I don't buy into their reasoning (safe for your kids). You cannot trust your children around a gun but you will trust them with this? Best case you find pepper on a wall or the dog. Worst case, even toy guns have gotten children killed.

That said, as a pepper delivery mechanism it sounds like a good idea.

 

[Deanimator]

If somebody's either forcing their way into my home, or is already inside and refuses my order to leave, non-lethal force is off the table.

Anybody that stupid and malicious is an immediate and credible threat to my life and limb.

 

[M-Cameron]

if you look online....youll find numerous videos showing just how ineffective the "pepperballs" are....i really dont see these being much better.

a paintball stings a little....but that alone wont stop an attacker......the pepper spray fill also only works if it gets near the eyes......something like this would be good for riot controll...maybe itll work well for stray dogs and small wild animals....but i wouldnt trust my life to it to protect me from 2 legged intruders in the middle of the night.

quite frankly, ide rather stick with a large riot sized can of mace for Home Defense if i wanted to go the "pepper" route.

 

[hso]

Their crowd funding effort is amusing. The first thing I thought was "why pay them for a pepperball shooter when they're already out there"?

 

[MedWheeler]

Might be a viable option in areas in which firearms may be impractical or even forbidden, or by those who have become prohibited from owning firearms (or live with someone who has and cannot effectively reconcile that.)

Yes, I'm capable of being a hammer without seeing everything as a nail.

 

[hso]

They pulled it off the crowdfunding site after the criticism hit.

http://www.tippmann.com/p/tipx-pistol?pp=24

 

[usmarine0352_2005]

So what is your link to, a paintball gun in current production? I know Tippman is a big name in paintball markers.



I thought your link was going to be about the Salt company withdrawing their crowdfunding. lol

 

[HGM22]

I think the paintballs are .70 to deter them being used in "normal" .68 paintball guns.

That said, yes I believe a firearm is a better option if someone is threatening great bodily injury/death, especially inside. However, for those who would NEVER own a gun, it might be a good option for them. Better than nothing.