ban on paintball

[cockermongol]

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/pr/07-22-04-336667.html

sucks for the people that play paintball there...

[SpecialBlend2786]

wow that sucks

[deathstalker]

I agree that they should not be discharged within city limits. Park Ridge is adjacent to Chicago and places it might be considered safe to shoot a marker are few and far between. I don't think it's proper for them to restrict the sale of markers, nor restrict the possession of them by minors, though (unless "in possession" does not mean the same thing as "owning").

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

....hmm well i guess everyone is going to skokie to buy their paintball gear than

[HoboJudge]

Don't think so...

I believe Skokie already has a ban in place.

[deathstalker]

BBT used to have a store at Village Crossing. They had to close it and that's when they opened the Vernon Hills location. Happened years ago.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

I believe Skokie already has a ban in place.

well than why is pbgear being sold at shredshop?

[Bad_Dog]

for some reason I find that unlawfull

if that ever happens around here... the only way to enforce it would be to kill me...

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

paintball is banned here. but it's kinda pointless since no one in my area is even into paintballing

[RingOfScale]

doesn't seem so bad, cause they are just banned within the city... chances are the fields arnt officially within the city .... and it says a minor being in pocession of a gun, so just have your parents take u and say its theirs officially.

[gc82000]

I dont agree witht he possesion of marker to minors though. All a kid really needs to do is disassemble the gun and put it in a bag, preferably nonsee-through.
He would have to be doing something stupid or out of the ordinary to get stopped by a cop. And then he would have a good reason to open up a kids bag.

My advice to this run Forest run.

[chairman_mao]

It appears that this is nothing more than a ban on the sale of PB Markers in the city proper. I think that you'll find that many places have an existing ban on the "discharge of air rifles, bb guns and PB marker in PUBLIC places". Public is the key to that sentence. This does not forbid a private citizen from discharging on their private property or in the case of PB at a designated field. While this is true some places do not allow the discharge of any of the aforementioned items within the city limits but again I believe that in the case of PB it will generally be accepted that within the confines of designated areas it is generally permited. Atleaset that is my take on this article

[PissedGodzilla]

what the article actually says is that you cannot fire the gun in public. is there a difference between that and saying in a public place?

it can be construed that if firing in a PB field, that is technically in "public"

Just curious, I'm not to good with these law things...

[deathstalker]

it can be construed that if firing in a PB field, that is technically in "public"

It's a moot point, really. There are no fields in Park Ridge and it's safe to assume there probably never will be. It's a heavily populated suburb of Chicago and it literally borders Chi-town.

I live in Chicago and I will NOT fire my marker outdoors. I fire inside all the time, though. I've got a little homemade set up where I can shoot paint into an insulated box to chrono and test, and I dry fire ALL the time. I've never had a complaint from my neighbors and most of them express a lot of curiosity when they come over and see my gear. Do it smart, do it safe, and you won't have any problems from the police.

[abunkerer]

It's all because of the idiots that go around doing "drive bys" I see paintball splats all the time on buildings and at bus stops, stop signs...I have a feeling that there will be a lot more of these types of restrictions in the chitown area.