Paintball News Archive 21-May-2009

Germany Seeks To Ban Paintball (Strategy Page)May 17, 2009: German politicians recently tried to outlaw paintball, a sport employing guns that use compressed air to fire 17mm paint balls at other players in contests simulating firefights. Paintball have been around since the 1970s, and there are 500,000 active participants in Germany.

UC Irvine: Gun-toting suspect could be paintballer (Channel 8 San Diego)Associated Press - May 20, 2009 7:44 PM ET IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - Police at the University of California, Irvine say a person seen wearing camouflage and toting what appeared to be a rifle may...

Gun scare at UCI serves as test for text-alert system (Los Angeles Times)Safety officials now think the man reported to be carrying a rifle on campus may have been a student with a paintball gun. About 20,000 subscribers received text alerts of the potential danger. Students and teachers at UC Irvine were shaken this afternoon when officials sent out a campus text message saying they were responding to reports of a camouflaged man with a rifle on campus, a report ...

Blotter: Paintball guns in altercation (The Courier News)Elgin police were called to the parking garage at 200 E. Chicago St. at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday for a report of a fight that had began across the street at Medusa's night club, police reports stated. According to some of those involved with the fight, another group followed them to the parking garage and had called others to become involved in the altercation, police said.

Branchport teen hurt in fall faces charge (MPNnow.com)A Branchport teen hurt after falling through the roof of an abandoned building while playing paintball has been charged with trespass.

Registration begins for paintball tournament (Sidney Herald)It?s free, it?s fun and it?s coming to Sidney.



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