Canadian Paintball Threat Now Over!

The Splatter Times:  

The Canadian parliament was considering passage of a bill that would reclassify paintball guns as weapons. The bill would seemingly reclassify firearms as objects designed to expel a projectile at faster than 500 feet per second and over 5.7 Joules.  This would require special firearms licenses and a ton of red tape to obtain a license for paintball marker ownership. This would, for all intents and purposes, eliminate the sport of paintball in Canada. Act now to protect our sport in Canada.

With the paintball community's help, over 10,000 emails were sent out in a span of just a few days to Canada's top lawmakers.  Paintballers had come together in a unified effort to inform Canada's legislators to make corrections or clarify the bill's consequences.

The Splatter Times received letters by email and by land mail from many of Canada's leaders acknowledging the threat to the paintball industry.  Most of them were overly concerned and agreed with our sentiments.

The Canadian Firearms Centre [sic] even sent us a very detailed letter outlining why paintball should not be threatened by this bill. We were satisfied.

Good Job Guys.  Paintball wouldn't be the same without the players!