News just in: Paintball guns are evil and lethal

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Danger fear as gang steals paintball guns

Paintball guns which police say could be used as "lethal weapons" in the wrong hands have been stolen.

Forty-eight paintball guns, gas paint canisters and masks worth about £10,000 were stolen from a site in Bassingbourn just a day after they had been transferred to the site.

Apocalypse Paintball has an office in Dry Drayton but was moving offices and equipment to its paintball site off Old North Road, Bassingbourn, when the theft happened.

Jamie Powell, from the company, said: "We had just transferred the equipment to storage containers and were waiting for the power company to install electricity into the containers and offices but the thieves got there first.

"In the right hands the guns are perfectly safe but in the wrong hands, who knows what could happen.

"We are still just about managing to run because only half the stock was taken but it is very inconvenient and never a nice thing to happen."

The raid took place overnight last Thursday.

Police believe a high vehicle, larger than a Transit van, was involved in the burglary because wires above one of the fences appeared to have been pulled down by a large van.

PC David Findlow said: "These guns can be lethal in the wrong hands and it is very difficult to tell when people are holding a firearm of any kind.

"I urge anyone with information about the incident to ring DC Ann Naylor from Sawston CID on 0845 4564564."

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Obviously you good folks across the pond need to start banning those dangerous things right away!

I can't believe they allow anyone to legally own those. After all, what is their primary purpose, to shoot someone? ;)
 
Well I can see to a certain point, how the police over there would be concerned to about those guns being “on the street†or in the hands of street thugs, exchange the paint balls for a projectile made of a firmer material. Like a slingshot, use a dried pea you can sting some one pretty good, use a ball bearing you can kill that same person. And in a country that has such a crack down on any firearms, an incident this would raise some eyebrows in the law enforcement community.

I wonder what laws if any that England already has on paint ball guns.
 
I saw a car window get broke (door window) when someone fired a frozen paintball out of a gun that was cranked up on pressure. that kind of force, a shot in the face could blind or kill someome. I know let everyone have firearms again to combat the paintball problem.
 
In the right hands the guns are perfectly safe but in the wrong hands, who knows what could happen.
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:scrutiny:

The paintball guns were likely thrown in the back of a motor vehicle... a vehicle that's perfectly safe, but in the wrong hands, who knows what could happen.

The vehicle runs on some form of petrol, which is perfectly safe, but in the wrong hands, who knows what could happen.

The petrol was purchased at a service station that also sells matches, which are perfectly safe, but in the wrong hands, who knows what could happen.

Who needs common sense when you've got sensationalism.
 
while I certainly wouldn't choose a paintball gun as a weapon, I do see how they could be dangerous. I think there is a thread around here regarding marbels being shot out of a paintball gun (maybe not, can't remember if it was here or somewhere else). Also, as previously mentioned, frozen paintballs basically become .68 caliber slugs.
 
You know what the more likely thing is? Paintballers stole it.

Lots of guns are good and worth quite a bit of money. Paintball guns get stolen all the time here in the states.

In fact, the first auto-cocking paintball gun, a one of a kind gun, was stolen from Palmer Pursuit Products.
 
Camille.

Does it sound like an inside job? They've been in a vulnerable place for about a day and they are stolen in that window of opportunity. Hmmn.

Of course paintball markers can be dangerous. Even with fresh paint, at 280fps, they can cause great bodily injury: blindness. I sure wouldn't want to be shot by one off the field, without suitable goggles.

My first thoughts were "poor field owner." It's gotta suck to have half of your rental equipment stolen before it's used.
 
why not.....

load them ol' nasties up with jes' good ol' JAWBREAKERS????????????? saves all'at trubbl frezun dem balls off. yep. :cool:
 
only the black ones are evil:
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This is my BOOMSTICK!

:evil:
 
"We are still just about managing to run because only half the stock was taken but it is very inconvenient and never a nice thing to happen."
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Has getting burgled ever been otherwise? :rolleyes:

I note not many of us have too much sympathy - could it be we sorta feel they allowed it to happen or promted such theft in some way? I've been waiting for a gang to knock over an armory myself. :banghead:

Oh - and, Vitamin G - thanks for proving there are some (or were at least before you bought you first) thinking nonfirearm owners out there. :)
 
Deadly Paint Balls ...

Which paint ball has the most stopping power, the red or the blue? I heard that you could shoot down an airplane with the pink ones ...
 
Unfortunately,

a paintball store clerk told me one time that there are cases of idiots sanding down glass marbles until they fit the guns and then firing them off. I seem to recall something about 350 FPS in the same conversation.

I told him that I would probably have to kill someone that shot one of those at me and he seemed to think it would be justified.
 
"In the right hands the guns are perfectly safe but in the wrong hands, who knows what could happen."

Oh noes!!! Bruises and possibly minor cuts. Ban them before someone gets hurt!!! I'm sure the thieves will turn them in. :rolleyes:
 
Which paint ball has the most stopping power, the red or the blue? I heard that you could shoot down an airplane with the pink ones ...
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Well. if you get hit with the red one, you wake up like nothing ever happened...or was that the blue one? :confused:

Everyone knows the pink ones keep you from screaming.... :p
 
they are opening an indoor paintball place in nyc in a few weeks :evil: a train stop away from manhattan.
 
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