Just saw police using paintball gun to subdue criminal.......

[SummaryJudgement]

I was just looking at the news here in Venice. Apparently in Anaheim, police were chasing a stolen vehicle and managed to corner it in a parking lot. When the suspect wouldn't get out of the car the police shot what looked like pepperballs into the cab of the truck.

I couldn't tell what kind of marker it was, but you could definately see the hopper in the footage they showed.

Just thought I'd mention it.

[OneUp]

i read a story earlier where an officer fired pepperballs into a crowd and it killed a woman when she was shot in the eye.

[Swampy]

Its probably a Tippmann Pro Carbine. Tippmann pretty much stopped selling them to the public and introduced them to law enforcement for that reason.

[Russ]

Yep, it's a neat way to stop the bad guys...

[wetwrks]

Tippmann has been persuing the police/crowd controll market pretty heavily.

I had an oppertunity to pick up a crowd controll paintgun made by some other company I have never heard of. It had paintballs and pepperballs that were all fin stabilized. Took a rotary drum magazine.

Found it:

http://www.fnhusa.com/products/firearms/family.asp?fid=FNF010&gid=FNG003

kinda neat but too expensive and I had questions about the usefullness.

[WingMan13]

Cool, never seen that b4...

[wetwrks]

Here is the ammo

http://www.fnhusa.com/products/firearms/family.asp?fid=FNF021&gid=FNG003

[Rudz]

Tippmann has been persuing the police/crowd controll market pretty heavily.

I had an oppertunity to pick up a crowd controll paintgun made by some other company I have never heard of. It had paintballs and pepperballs that were all fin stabilized. Took a rotary drum magazine.

Found it:

http://www.fnhusa.com/products/firearms/family.asp?fid=FNF010&gid=FNG003

kinda neat but too expensive and I had questions about the usefullness.

tom kaye designed the valve, the fn303 has been discussed over and over here on ao, it was used when the red sox won the world series and a riot ensued, the poorly trained officers killed a woman, it was removed from use in that department, the first and last time they used the fn303, now its mostly used for military

[Russ]

tom kaye designed the valve, the fn303 has been discussed over and over here on ao, it was used when the red sox won the world series and a riot ensued, the poorly trained officers killed a woman, it was removed from use in that department, the first and last time they used the fn303, now its mostly used for military

That gun used in Boston fired bean-bags, NOT paintballs IIRC

[Rudz]

it was still the fn303, care to do a seach?

[chairman_mao]

No the Boston PD used the FN 303. The round is shaped more like a artillery round and was intended to be shot at the ground but was instead used directly on a person (intentionally or not I do not know).

[Army]

Perfect Circle is owned by AGD. These are the pepper balls (and many others) you see in use around the world.

The FN303 uses a specialty "ball" that is fin stabilised for long distance hits. The payload is a measure of Bismuth, a very heavy metal, in a powdered form. The paint is for marking the impact. A back door of AGD has fist sized dents from the impact potential of these projectiles. As, or more, effective as a bean-bag, and can mark it's target too. AGD designed the valving system for the gun.

The sad Boston affair was a result of piss-poor training.

[Army]

No the Boston PD used the FN 303. The round is shaped more like a artillery round and was intended to be shot at the ground but was instead used directly on a person (intentionally or not I do not know).

They are direct impact projectiles, not a bounding type. They are supposed to hurt.

[Warwitch]

They are direct impact projectiles, not a bounding type. They are supposed to hurt.

Eh, I saw police using a billy club to subdue a criminal once. Much more effective IMO. All you have to do is brandish an ASP baton and people straighten up quick!

[TheTramp]