Sunday, August 23, 2015

Belgian Officials Arm Police With Paintball Guns in Bid to Stop Future Charlie Hebdo-Style Attacks

Via sauced07

paintball gun

Evidently, not a parody.
 
Police in one Belgian city are now being armed with paintball guns.

Rapid response units in Antwerp are being handed the non-lethal weapons, familiar to stag doers and wannabe warriors across the world.

Police chiefs say that the new semi-automatic firearms are designed to be used in densely-populated areas.

They can also fire pepper spray missiles.

And police bosses hope that they will help neutralise dangerous suspects without actually killing them.

6 comments:

  1. And when they cut a ball and juice the barrel, the accuracy will go from somewhat to absolute shit.
    I played competitive pball growing up. The worse thing you get is a stinging pinch from being hit with a shot. If it's over 300fps, then it's a little bit more of a welt; after the fact.

    To think this retarded country would even *think* this is a valid solution to be used against people armed with true ballistic weapons, is extremely laughable.
    I hope the family of the poor sap killed while trying to use this to stop violence sues the SHIT out the authorities, city council, and whomever else was in charge of this ridiculous idea.

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    1. I hope the family of the poor sap killed while trying to use this to stop violence sues the SHIT out the authorities, city council, and whomever else was in charge of this ridiculous idea.

      Which the taxpayers will get stuck with. They need to be accountable individually to stop this nonsense.

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  2. The BEST way to "neutralise dangerous suspects" is to kill them.

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  3. Reading articles like this makes me wonder if the old Mad Magazine was satire or prophecy.

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    1. Really. :) It's still going in a different form I believe.

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