Ban Brass Eagle: Viewloader And Jt

[Hysperion]

It's time those greeby money hungry idiots at Brass Eagle get out of the paintball scene. They are ruining our sport. Not only do they sell 90% of the crap equipment sold at Wal-Mart, Dunham's, and Dick's which in turn gets used illegally and gives paintball a bad image, now they are suing Odyssey....I say if you have JT equipment that you recently purchased, return it. Don't buy any Brass Eagle, JT, or Viewloader products and send them packing. Maybe if enough of us boycott their crap, they will drop their pointless lawsuit against Odyssey which is actually a respectable business. Who's with me?

[OldSchoolMag]

I like their goggles, nice, compact, and comfy.
Their pants are the same way, and thick, and breathable.
Same with their shirts, jerseys, and hats...

So they're a little greedy. It's business. Good luck to them, their case'll get dropped anyways. Back to normal.

OSM

[Rynoboy06]

Maybe the brass eagle line which is actually bad. I see viewloader hurting a little now, what with having actual competition. JT stuff is okay, I like my mask. Maybe you should email your views to brass eagle and see what they say.

[Skoad]

but brasseagle makes the cheap guns to more people into the sport

[toymyster]

Skoad hit the nail on the head!! Brass Eagle, as greedy as they are, have gotten more people into paintball than anybody else!! Are their products crappy??? Yes!!! Is it cheap therefore affordable?? Absolutely!!! And please, let's stay away from blaming a manufacturer for peoples stupidity trap!!! That is what leads to irresposible and unreasonable laws!!! Stupid people will do their stupid things no matter who's stuff they use!!!
And the lawsuit??? It will get kicked out of court soon enough, they don't have any grounds for it!!!

[Phil]

No one...

[HoppysMag]

I hate BE. I dont care if they bring people in. they support most of the paintball related crime too. thier products are cheap and worthless.. Not the guns so much .. but mask, gloves, ect.... it makes me mad to think a well like company like VL or JT would sell out to BE.. I know my next mask is going to me a Scott Stalker. And my next hopper will be ether a Ricochet, or that ZAP one.....Does anyone know if BE changed the Xfire or Flex 7 masks?

[OldSchoolMag]

This is pointless. I can understand you are angry because BE is upset with the HALO, but jeez, you guys are going a little over board.

"they support most of the paintball related crime too"

Get off it. They don't support those crimes, just like baseball bat companies don't change their slogans to "Bash noggins good!" Something will always be used the exact OPPOSITE way you planned it to, no matter what. The point is how many people use it the right way, i.e. the paintball community.

Boycott their products if you want. JT sells the most masks out of any other paintball mask company. Their jerseys are also the most popular. 9 out of 10 people have a ViewLoader loader, whether it be motorized or not. Half the people in this sport started out with a Brass Eagle gun.

Personally, I think the comments about the illegal use of the guns is pointless and misdirected. Brass Eagle makes cheap products at affordable prices, and people use them. As long as they have a lower prices, no boycott in the world will slow them down, unless their CEO declares himself the messiah, and orders all BE/VL/JT users to bow down to him, and honestly, that's the best chance you have of getting a change in their management...

OSM

[HoppysMag]

YES, BE is being money hungry, they are buying good companies and turning them to trash.....

ITS A FACT!! How many hoodlums do you see toting Emags and Angels?? For 30 $ a kid can get a BE talon and go shoot at people on the street. Hence forth giving paintball in general a bad name.... And especially seeing all these bandings of paintball in all these states. Not because MR Tom Kaye mad too much noise playing paintball at a designated field, but because MR Johnny Hoodlum Talon decide to shoot some people on the street, which resulted in someone loosing an eye... and if you say, "But they bring people into the sport" they also give it a bad name.


- AH F it im done, if you want to try to prove you point PM me....

[Spaceman613]

So we need to ban cars because drunk drivers kill people? Do we need to ban spray paint because of vandals??

Get a clue, its not a companies fault that thier products are used in crime. Its the criminal, not the tool. They fill a void in the market with low price markers. Low price and low quality, but a lot of people have fun with them in REAL GAMES....

Grow up and get off your high horse

[magic55]

i would agree with the BE part but jt and viewloader, i like viewloader hoppers.. they actually work for me, and the jt masks are nice and very popular so that wouldn't work.

[HoppysMag]

wow i guese you cant read.... im not saying ban them. what im saying is with progress comes set backs. Sure they might bring people in wich helps us, but its also hurting our sport. It only takes a few bad apples. And they will ruin it for the rest of us. Im not saying BE is to blame completely, but parents, and other things ( movies, other kids.... ECT) The Davis pistol company mad cheap pistols. They were called Saterday Night pistols. they were used in hundreds of murders, why you ask? BECUASE THEY WERE CHEAP!! Sure mabey Davis brought people into the gun stores but some of them were criminals. Most were probibly men or women with family who wanted a cheap way of defending themselfs from a intruder. But the element of evil was there....And as a result it helped the push for new gun laws....If this happens with paintball guns it will bring new bannings and laws....Now do you guys see what im getting at?? and yet again... ..PM ME!!!if you want to argue. lets stop waisting the servers memory...

[mac2k4]

who ever is dogging BE is stupid, shut up, you don't know what your talking about, someone said they buy good companies and make bad stuff? hmmmm proteus, new JT jersies, Jt barrell systems. they sponsor the brass eagle all-stars, and they are very good. I think every single person has a veiwloader hopper, and about every tourney player has a few of them.
but your right BE is a badcompany, how bout you and maybe 10 others boycot and don't buy be products, what have ya done? looked like an idiot? thats about it.

[Hasty8]

I don't know why so many people here are saying that BE is responsible for bringing people into the sport.

Just from my perspective (skewed as it is) but I've been playing for almost four years now and to relly think about it I have never seen anyone use a BE product (marker) on the fields.

My first game was played with a Tippy and they were my first three markers and then came the Emag.

After I owned a JT mask and a Viewloader Revvy I learned that they were owned by BE but it still seems to me like BE is a shadow in the industry.

Just my 2 cents.

[Spaceman613]

Well, I have seen many BE gun used at rec games. Stingrays especially. I cant think of a few of my friend that bought them, and now own more reliable and expensive markers. But BE is what got them to want to play more...