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Border agents to use paintball guns to fend off attackers
azfamily.com ^ | April 24, 2008 | azfamily.com

Posted on 04/25/2008 1:26:21 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day

TUCSON - Some surprising news came from the United States Border Patrol.

The Patrol has purchased 1,000 guns that fire non-lethal paintball or pepper pellets. The goal of a target practice session was to hit the white rag at the end of a hall with paintballs. Border Patrol agents may soon use paintballs to defend themselves against smugglers along the border due to an increase in violence.

Surveillance video from an incident last year in El Paso shows a Border Patrol agent retreating after people pelt him with rocks. Some could argue the same about being hit by a paintball without protective gear, where a projectile from a paintball gun leaves a small welt on the flesh.

Small welt or not, human rights activists say it is a bad idea, even for a line of defense.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; aliens; banglist; borderinsecurity; gramsci; guns; immigration; paintball
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To: Choose Ye This Day

¡Bueno! Me pegaste con pintura, y me duele mucho. Ahora voy a volver a Méjico. Te prometo, ¡nunca más cruzaré tu frontera! ¡Adiós!

21 posted on 04/25/2008 2:00:34 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Obsessive Ex-Mormons: They can leave the Church, but they can't leave it alone.)
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To: Froufrou
I could show ‘em how to make spitball shooters from Bic pens, and Bic pens are really cheap...

A straw, a straight pin, and a little scotch tape and I can make a wicked blow dart. It will strike fear into all those illegal border crossers, I'm sure.

22 posted on 04/25/2008 2:00:35 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Choose Ye This Day
Border agents to use paintball guns to fend off attackers

Better than that would be 'pistols' whittled from pine. Each agent could whittle his or her own. Point the 'pistol' and shout "BANG."

23 posted on 04/25/2008 2:12:20 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Can anyone advise whether a paintball marker gun is a good way to deter deer? They make themselves at home in the yard, and destroy expensive landscaping.

While tasty, and easy to shoot, I don’t want to go to prison for poaching.

But I’d also like to know the most potent and powerful paint-ball gun there is, so I could send a real message through that deerskin armor they wear.

Would a rib shot be most effective? (I considered less-than lethal rubber shotgun slugs, but they are expensive, and the noise would alarm the neighbors.)


24 posted on 04/25/2008 2:15:08 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns donÂ’t kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Who we really should shoot with real guns will be withheld.


25 posted on 04/25/2008 2:17:27 PM PDT by bmwcyle (I always rely on God and Guns in that order)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
I know someone who'll be volunteering for the Border Patrol...


26 posted on 04/25/2008 2:19:10 PM PDT by Marko413
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Why not water pistols? Or maybe have the agents try to reason with the scum to please go back?


27 posted on 04/25/2008 2:19:32 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

We’d have been hell in shop class together, huh?


28 posted on 04/25/2008 2:20:56 PM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Marko413

I missed that episode. Lemme guess: Dwight goes absolutely paintball postal and wails on female co-workers and Michael.

Am I close?


29 posted on 04/25/2008 2:25:48 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Obsessive Ex-Mormons: They can leave the Church, but they can't leave it alone.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
This is wrong on so many levels. Here, ICE agents! Defend against automatic weapons fire with paint!

And of course, the whiny "human rights activists" have to cry that it's inhumane.

Until the Secret Service begins guarding the POTUS, cabinet members and members of congress with paintball guns, this remains UNACCEPTABLE.

30 posted on 04/25/2008 2:30:07 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Ronald Reagan's single biggest mistake: Picking Poppy Bush to be his veep.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
If you illegally enter the USA and attack our law enforcement officers . . . you should be riddled with 5.56mm rounds from the M4's that should be assigned to each Border Patrol agent. Your corpse should then be delivered to the closest Mexican consulate.

How in hades do we put up with these attacks on our agents?

31 posted on 04/25/2008 2:37:37 PM PDT by DesertSapper (God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
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To: Beelzebubba

I wouldn’t know about the deer. Not my city-dwelling expertise—although I get ‘em in my yard from time to time.

I’m sure some other FReepers know.


32 posted on 04/25/2008 2:40:45 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Obsessive Ex-Mormons: They can leave the Church, but they can't leave it alone.)
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To: E. Cartman

I like the idea! A 10 gauge shotgun. A paintball, followed by a hand full of buckshot should work well. You can get a lot of stuff into a 10 gauge shell.


33 posted on 04/25/2008 2:40:55 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Choose Ye This Day

What next? Squirt guns?


34 posted on 04/25/2008 2:41:55 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

I think it was when Dwight gave Michael the paintballs and 2 free lessons for a Christmas present. They added a clip of him shooting at a target and yelling out “take that Saddam!”


35 posted on 04/25/2008 2:49:24 PM PDT by Marko413
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To: AuntB

The paintball guns are a slight improvement over what we had as kids when we’d play army:

(pointing gun made out of fingers) “I shot you...you’re dead!”

“Did not”
“Did Too”
“Nah uh”
“Uh huh”
“Did So”
“No you didn’t, I shot you first”
“Did not”
“Did Too”
...etc....


36 posted on 04/25/2008 2:51:52 PM PDT by Diverdogz
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To: Choose Ye This Day
We were making light about arming our Border Patrol with "paint ball" guns way back when Ramos and Compeon were arrested. Now, it's a reality?!!!

Shooting drug dealers with paint balls is humiliating..

sw

37 posted on 04/25/2008 3:00:16 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Johnny Sutton will be all over the first BP agent that puts out an illegal’s eye with one of those things.


38 posted on 04/25/2008 3:06:43 PM PDT by TADSLOS ( McCain-Feingold: "Good for thee but not for me"- John McCain)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Personally, I’d make them sit in the Comfy Chair.


39 posted on 04/25/2008 3:09:49 PM PDT by MistrX
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To: Choose Ye This Day
This sends the wrong message to our neighbors to the South! They may see this as not being welcomed. What a horrible show of violence!

"This is the US Border Patrol! Do not come any closer or you may receive a small welt! Or two!"

40 posted on 04/25/2008 3:10:22 PM PDT by Sender ("Why is it that I can't just eat my waffle?" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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