Originally posted by SSMercury
Because I employ common sense and visually check my paintgun's breech and air to see if it physically has a paintball or something else in it, or it's capability to hold air, before I point it at anything higher up the evolutionary scale than a tree.
That, combined with mechanical safeties, those little powerfeed twist things, barrel plugs, etc. is why I would not mind pulling the trigger while it's pointed at you in the staging area. I will, however, hesitate to do this, first checking that it doesn't have any appreciable air pressure in the entire gun, and the above powerfeed thing is twisted into the closed position, and then I'd double check the air source and pressure in the lines. When dealing with air pressure in the hundreds to thousands of pounds per square inch, one cannot be too secure with that.
It might just be me, but you're "coming down on me like a ton of bricks". All I've said is that at the point where a paintball gun setup is dismantled to the point of inoperability of vital functions (paintball feeding and most importantly an air source), pointing it at a living creature and pulling the trigger isn't going to do anything, unless a lot of laws of physics are broken and multiple masses and differential pressures exist without a barrier separating flow.
Edit-As for firearms, which I don't own (an anomaly in Texas it seems
), I would employ similar levels of caution regarding ammunition as I do with compressed air.
That, combined with mechanical safeties, those little powerfeed twist things, barrel plugs, etc. is why I would not mind pulling the trigger while it's pointed at you in the staging area. I will, however, hesitate to do this, first checking that it doesn't have any appreciable air pressure in the entire gun, and the above powerfeed thing is twisted into the closed position, and then I'd double check the air source and pressure in the lines. When dealing with air pressure in the hundreds to thousands of pounds per square inch, one cannot be too secure with that.
It might just be me, but you're "coming down on me like a ton of bricks". All I've said is that at the point where a paintball gun setup is dismantled to the point of inoperability of vital functions (paintball feeding and most importantly an air source), pointing it at a living creature and pulling the trigger isn't going to do anything, unless a lot of laws of physics are broken and multiple masses and differential pressures exist without a barrier separating flow.
Edit-As for firearms, which I don't own (an anomaly in Texas it seems
), I would employ similar levels of caution regarding ammunition as I do with compressed air.
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