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Paintball Guns

Paintball guns are also known as paintball markers. They are central to playing paintball. A paintball gun uses expanding gas to propel paint balls to and target other players.

Top-of-the-line paintball guns can fire paint balls that travel as fast as 300 feet per second. In fact, a paintball gun could theoretically shoot at higher velocity, but this would be unsafe. At 300 feet per second a paintball will, at worst, cause pain on impact and leave a bruise.

Paintball guns make use of a body, a hopper, an air tank, and a barrel in order to fire paint balls. In order to prevent the unintentional firing of a paintball, markers also have barrel blocking devices. This is the equivalent of a safety on a rifle.

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