A paintball gun is basically a mini-liquid-balloon launcher, isn’t it?

As to why, less mess more or less.

  • HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    There was a string of people swapping marbles into paintball guns for a few years here locally.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      Marbles are too inconsistent in diameter and most of them are too small for paintball guns, and certainly wouldn’t chamber or feed right. What’s more likely is that these punks were using one of the myriad crop of nylon or aluminum “jawbreaker” ammo sold online these days specifically for use in paintball guns.

      In addition to the dubious legality of this sort of thing if you actually did light somebody up with a hopper full of them, for anyone considering these for deterrence of ne’er-do-wells in the night, I’d give it a second think only because mostly what you’ll accomplish is holes in your drywall and denting up your own stuff.

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      3 days ago

      It’s a great way to bring up insurance costs for a car dealership. A lot of broken windshields.