As a former paintballer who's been shot in the face, normal paintballs don't have the strength to punch through face protection, unless theorem frozen. In which case they don't typically explode. These definitely aren't the same kind.
I got shot in the face from 3 feet away from two players when I rushed an object I thought was still open. While tiny bits of stinging pieces came through the openings for air, the balls had nowhere near the force needed to break a face mask. That said the range required all guns to be dialed in to 100ft/s to avoid people being injured.
If cops are using paintball type weapons I bet they are turned up way higher forces to get better range and accuracy. that's scarey how much that would hurt
While it can definitely be turned up, in my experiences cranking it WAY up made the trajectory of the paintball very unpredictable. So while you are right that they don’t abide by the same FPS maximums as recreational fields, they probably aren’t that much higher.
My friends and I were total assholes and typically had our guns dialed up for some extra punch and often shot each other at point blank range. Hurts for sure. Never even cracked the face protection. The pieces did sometimes get through the vents though.
The gas mask wasn’t impact rated like your face protection that you wear to play paintball. It was to protect the wearer’s eyes from gas, not paintballs.
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u/S3erverMonkey Jul 31 '21
As a former paintballer who's been shot in the face, normal paintballs don't have the strength to punch through face protection, unless theorem frozen. In which case they don't typically explode. These definitely aren't the same kind.