Paintball guns on, also well-known like markers of paintball, is the central piece of equipment in the sport of paintball. Paintball guns on the harness the energy of a gas that is extended (dioxide of carbon or compressed air) to drive paintballs through the barrel. The speeds of the muzzle can approach 300 feet by the second (91 meters per second), although any speed on 300 feet per second is uncertain. Underneath 300 fps, most of paintballs will be broken on impact without leaving significant damage beyond a contusion located but quite severe due to the extreme speed of paintballs of the flight, players must use masks to protect the eyes, the mouth, and the ears when the devices in way block of the barrel are not in place. Each commercial field of paintball has rules with respect the devices in way block to the barrel, the speed of the muzzle, and to the masks that use.
Most of paintball guns it has four main components: a body, a hopper, a tank, and a barrel. It has, nevertheless, the following one hard of the players of the action-class who use markers with an index deliberately low of the fire and of the capacity the markers of the Action-class are generally pump-action and driven by powerlets of 1212-gram CO2.
The community of paintball prefers generally to rather use "the marking" term that "gun" to attenuate the public opinion that the arms of paintball guns, and that paintball is a dangerous sport. The term derives from its original use like means so that the personnel and the mess orderlies of forestry mark to trees and cattles that vagan.