| Paintball guns, also called paintball markers, are used to | | | | four diffent types of paintball marker firing systems. |
| mark an opposite player with paint in a paintball game. | | | | These include electro-pneumatic firing system, |
| Paintball guns were once used by forestry groups and | | | | mechanical firing system, pump, and electo-mechanical |
| farmers to mark trees and cattle. The origin of paintball | | | | guns. Hoppers, often called as loaders, are used to |
| guns can be traced back to 1981. The first paintball gun, | | | | hold paintballs. Tanks are used to store the |
| invented by James C. Hal, was commonly used by the | | | | compressed gas in order to accelerate the paintballs |
| forestry industry and not for a paintball game. Later, | | | | which is attached to paintball gun. Barrels used for |
| the first gun specially intended for playing paintball was | | | | paintball guns come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and |
| invented by Robert G. Shepherd in 1985.Paintball guns | | | | materials.Pump-action, Semi-automatic and stockguns |
| are meant to move the paintball at a high rate of | | | | are some of the important paintball gun types. |
| speed. They use compressed gas to shoot the | | | | Stockguns use markers which require a low rate of |
| paintball. The velocity required to force the ball from | | | | ammunition capacity and fire. Stock class guns are |
| the barrel is nearly 300 ft/s (100 m/s). Usually, the | | | | also called pump action paintball guns. These guns or |
| compressed gases used in the paintball guns are | | | | markers are powered by 12 gram cabondioxide |
| carbon dixide, nitrogen or ordinary air. It is stored in | | | | cartridges and have small carbondioxide tanks. All guns |
| tanks that are attached to the gun.Modern paintball | | | | maintain the international speed limit of 300 fps and the |
| guns have four major components. These include | | | | range is 50 yards.Nowadays, a wide range of paintball |
| body, tank, hoppers, and barrel. Body is one of the | | | | guns in different designs are offered for sale in the |
| major components used in the paintball guns. It includes | | | | market at affordable prices. |