Ban Brass Eagle: Viewloader And Jt

[HoppysMag]

OldSchoolMag- Sorry i was having a bad day.... but what im bassicly saying is One bad apple could ruin it for all of us.

[OldSchoolMag]

Hoppy - I agree with you WHOLE HEARTEDLY. Especially in paintball, one bad egg will hurt our chances of the sport ever getting any where. I think that what BE is doing by suing them is stupid and pointless, yes, but in the whole, BE puts out not only cheap equipment that one can buy to see if he/she will like the sport without chance of blowing $1000 bucks down the drain, but also quality products from JT and VL (well, not so much VL anymore, but hey, I love my 4 year old 9volt) which most of us have used and will continue to use. I support BE's products, not their decisions regarding how they deal with competition.

OSM

[GallagherAtWar]

this means you better buy up all the halos on ebay.com and stores because they won't be here long

Chri$

[Psycow]

Sure, no self respecting paintball player would be caught dead with a BE marker, but you can't blame them for everything. In South Africa we don't have wallmart's so who are we going to blame if somebody misuse a paintball marker when there isn't BE distributors?

If I'm not mistaken part of the deal with JT is that they still operate as a seperate company, so the sale to Brass Eagle have nothing to do with the qoulity of theire products. Also, as far as I understand the JT barrels are made by Dye under the JT lable (I could be wrong here, I'm just going on what I heard).

The fact is, it doesn't matter where the marker is baught, someone can take out somebody's eye out with a rental gun if he isn't using it in the designated area. Instead of looking for a scapegoat lets rather educate the public about our sport wherever possible.

[Skoad]

They may have been doing this for a while, i don't usually get paintball stuff from Wal-Mart, but i went in the other day because my friend said they had some real cheap armored gloves, went back there found out they were sold out. So my friend bough a mask and we headed to the checkout where they carded him. The lady said they card everyone who buys any paintball product.

I've seen kids (age 10-15) go in and buy a bunch of brass eagle pb's, co2, etc. and they had to go get their parents to pay for them.

Good idea i suppose....


Anyway i agree with most, you can't just blame one thing because someone's stupid enough to missuse it. There's a lot more worse things they could do than paintball guns...like real guns?