Those of us "old types" remember that when paintball was featured on TV in the 80s, it was usually in a negative way. One common trope was someone converting a paintball gun to fire real bullets, for nefarious purposes. My favorite example was from the TV show "Equalizer" in the episode "The Endgame". I always thought it was kinda dumb since paintguns and firearms don't work anyway similar. That said, that episode of Equalizer is surprisingly accurate for the time.
Anyway, in my news feed popped up a story about a Russian Dancer, who was having an affair with some high level oligarch.... and was assassinated. This is Russia, so nothing weird. But buried in the story was that they did not use a firearm, but instead a non-lethal magfed pistol converted to fire bullets.
Waahhhh?
Apparently, pistols are "banned" in Russia, but non-lethal alternatives are allowed. Like the many pepperball guns on the market, that are basically paintball guns. Also common are Techrim pistols, which look exactly like real firearms, except shoot 50cal rubber balls, fed in a magazine of specially designed simunition. This is what the assassin used, except they modified the rounds. The rubber bullet was removed and replaced with a real bullet, and the charge was doubled up enough to make a lethal round.
Anyway, in my news feed popped up a story about a Russian Dancer, who was having an affair with some high level oligarch.... and was assassinated. This is Russia, so nothing weird. But buried in the story was that they did not use a firearm, but instead a non-lethal magfed pistol converted to fire bullets.
Waahhhh?
Apparently, pistols are "banned" in Russia, but non-lethal alternatives are allowed. Like the many pepperball guns on the market, that are basically paintball guns. Also common are Techrim pistols, which look exactly like real firearms, except shoot 50cal rubber balls, fed in a magazine of specially designed simunition. This is what the assassin used, except they modified the rounds. The rubber bullet was removed and replaced with a real bullet, and the charge was doubled up enough to make a lethal round.
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