New York Paintball Ban?

[Automaggin2]

http://www.paintballchannel.com/browse.php?mod=article&opt=view&id=68&style=details

[spazzed]

http://www.automags.org/forums/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=129770&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

Already got one of these

[hostage]

If I was walking threw the city and someone held up a custom 98 to me and said give me all your money, I would start laughing.

See this lady is mostlikely, looking for attention or she is stupid. She wants attention so she can get popularity for ridding the city of these "really scary" guns. If I wanted to rob someone with a gun that wouldn't cause harm, I would go make my own out wood or how hard would it be to get a toy gun and spray paint it black? Sigh why do things like this happen in NY. I totally disrespect ideas like this. I have a better idea, lets replace all the politions and with intelligent people. Imagine the world being led by smart people :-)
-Hoistage

[TippmannMan]

think about it

dont get me wrong i hated that article as you could see by referring to my post in response to the original thread. but one thing to consider is that not everyone plays paintball my friend. i know my neighbors got antsy when i shoot my gun in the backyard for the first time. you have to realize that there are so many uninformed people out there that you can never assume.

[einhander619]

Just another reason to spring for a nice anno or powdercoat! But in the meantime, someone should kick her in the bean for being so quick to jump to conclusions.

[speedyejl]

OMG, I'm going to have to make some phone calls. My friend is an editor at the times. He has often told me stories about poor reporters under him. They like to write alot of yellow, or sensational writing. I'll see if he knows this Barbra Stewart.

[MagDog68]

NYC Law forbids the sale of air powered guns - period. That's why no KMARTS sell any paintball equipment in the city but half a mile into Long Island ever store has Rifles, Pellet guns and yes Paintball Markers.

~Fred

PS NYC is a pain in the *** - other than Quebec City this is the only city in the world that disallows making rights on red too!

[AGD]

This is the tip of the iceberg. The new guns like the A5 DO look real and in my opinion are going to cause more problems like this. You have to take into account that NY cops don't have time to figure out if its a fake gun or not.

Don't blame them if someone gets killed.

AGD

[theraidenproject]

Re: New York Paintball Ban?

I will see what I can do for paintball's portrayal in the Times, ie, negative language like, "war game" and "imitation guns", etc. I might also be able to get paintball some positive press in the Times, more on this if it pans out.

[Danz]

[hardr0ck68]

here is where rec ballers cause dammage to our sport, there desire for markers that look like firearms and make them feel like rambo will attract attention from sad sad politicians who are tryin to get noticed. do the sad sad politicians have a case? yea.. like Tom said ploice arnt gonna stop and ask "is that a real gun your pointing at me??" at IAO just down form the AGD booth there was a vender tryin to sell cheap plastic add ons that make a marker look like a M-16 and other firearms. This will be as much a stumbeling block for paintball as pros who belive cheating is part of the game. our sport is on the verge of something big, either were gonna break into the world of x-sports, get air time on espn, and a shot at the olympics. Or were gonna end up on the news channel as a 5 min. blip about the "para-militant" sport that was and a stepping stone for some politician tryin to get elected to a comfy chair.

*Edit* my brother who was a strong tippy fan will never buy another product from them because of there new markers look. they have the rec market in there pocket with it, but dont they care about out sports futher? to me it seems like there wizzin in there bed at noon, not thinkin about what its gonna be like come midnight.

[Trunnion]

i myself strongly disagree with those people who claim that the tippmann A5 hurts paintball as a sport. i have no problem at all with paintball guns that look like firearms, so long as they remain on the paintball field. i have a friend who has an A5 with an rt trigger, and it's a very nice paintball gun, especially for scenario and woods games. it doesn't even look that much like an MP5 with the hopper, barrel, and tank attached. even without them, the feeder drum is still pronounced and noticable. people aren't going to stop thinking of paintball as a war game just because the paintball guns don't look like firearms. you'll never get away from the fundamental fact that paintball guns shoot projectiles.

[Danz]

[Hexis]

hardr0ck68 what's wrong with rec ballers? How can you say that "they" want paintball guns that look like real guns? I'm a hard core rec baller. I have never played in a tourney. I don't really like speed ball, and I love woods ball. Take a look here to see my marker: http://www.hxxl.com/modules.php?set_...view_photo.php All of my close paintball friends have similar setups. No one has a "realistic" marker. Lay off the rec baller hate. Just because somone plays a different style of paintball doesn't make them wrong.

[raehl]

It's very simple.

Your paintball marker should never be in plain sight in public. Period.

And we shouldn't be opposed to laws that ban carrying paintball markers around outside of carrying cases. You shouldn't be walking down the street with a paintball marker.

And retailers need to respect no-airgun-sales laws, just as much as we need to make sure they never get enacted, and try and repeal the ones that are there.

I havn't had a chance to look into this particular situation yet, but if a real bill to further restrict paint guns in new york ever hits a legislature we'll be there to make sure it doesn't happen. Most people are reasonable about paintball equipment nowadays. Especially if you complain about how the law will affect the local college paintball club.


- Chris