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Paintball Gun

Paintball Guns are used in the game of Paintball. They shoot out the Paintballs that are used to hit the opposing players. Paintball Guns are also known as Markers, and are the primary piece of equipment used in the game.

Paintball Guns use and expanding gas which propel the paintball’s out of the gun. The reason Paintball Guns are sometimes referred to as Markers is to pacify the general public who has not played the great game and think of it as just unmitigated violence. The word Marker came into play because of the original use of paintball guns for marking trees and cattle.

Pump action markers must be manually re-cocked after every shot, much like a pump action shotgun. Semi-automatic markers use a variety of designs to automatically cycle a bolt and load a new paintball into the chamber with each trigger pull. This frees the player from manually pumping the marker, allowing them to increase their rate-of-fire. Fully-automatic markers fire continually for as long as the trigger is held down.

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