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Op zaterdag 3 oktober 2009 00:32 schreef Taxidude het volgende:
Ohh, excuses. Druk druk druk, bla bla bla, was ff op vakantie. Er komt dit weekend wel een verhaaltje ga nu eerst pitten, ben kapot

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Ok finally home... That was F'ing nuts!!

I got lots of video and it's gonna take a bit of time to go through it and post it all up on youtube, some other guys got lots of video also and I am talking with them to get it posted up asap. It has interviews with people there and we will be putting English subtitles on the vids for everyone.

We were the first team to play, thankfully the cops had not raided the hall yet and we got to finish.

The next team was up and while we were filling pods I got pushed out of the way by cops in full Riot gear, they stormed onto the field (while the game was on) with their raid face sheilds turned up... Was a miracle that none of them got shot in the face on the field...

Game was stopped and nearly 4 hours of just the most insane **** ever ensued.

From what the Police said there was an "anonymous" tip made a few weeks before, letting them know that there would be a tournament where illegal markers would be used. From what a police rep said, they planned for this raid for the past 3 weeks, even sending undercover officers into the paintball hall days before todays raid...
What most people think is that somebody that had a personal grudge against the owners of the Hall did this to basically just cause grief... Because if they would have showed up to any paintball shop or any paintball field in the country it would have been the same result as what happened today.

Everybody's markers were seized (except my buddy's only because he has diplomatic immunity) .. My BobLong Victory = Gone...

They informed us that any marker that has an adjustable reg is technically "illegal", even if your marker was shooting 190fps "but it could" be adjusted over 214 ... Then it's illegal ....

While the cops were there they locked us all down, we could not leave. They pulled everybody's ID's and were even searching through peoples private property and shaking down those attending.

We could talk to eachother and make calls but that was about it. I called Maximus and told him to let everyone know what was going on because this type of thing is not really normal for Germany. And from allot of what people were saying is the first time something this massive ever happened.

I have been living over here for almost 11 years and never seen something like this with paintball... Coming from the states and seeing this was like being on another F'ing planet!
I felt like I just got raided at a chop shop... Not a "LEGAL" paintball tournament in a "legal" paintball hall ..

This could have serious implications for the future of German paintball, because technically what happened today will affect every paintball player in Germany. Because all markers have adjustable regs, that is even how they are when they get the state approval for F-stamp.... But the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing in German law.

After today, any shop any player any owner of a paintball marker in Germany will have to worry that your marker is technically considered "illegal' now, even with F-stamp and shooting under 214fps.
Unless you superglue or weld your HPA screw in place and hope during hot weather your marker does not start shooting a bit over 214...

What's the end story? ... For now, it's over 10 teams markers are gone, I dont think any of them will come back to the owners.
I think most everyone (with maybe a few exceptions) will get charged with possession of an illegal firearm and I dont know what the fine is but it could be well over €2000,00 Euro per person.

It is going to make playing very difficult, now every hall/field could be raided and any marker you use would be illegal...

Once I get some vid up I will post the link...

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German SEK (SWAT equivalent) teams have raided a hall in Berlin in which a paintball tournament was being held. Over 100 paintballers were unable to leave for about four hours and may have their markers destroyed.

According to one of the marshalls at the event, the law in Germany states that any marker with an adjustable reg that makes it capable of firing in excess of 214 feet per second is technically illegal. Ramping is also illegal. This normally isn’t a problem and paintballers in Germany don’t have any real issues with the police. Today, it was different. We’re hearing that 20 or so police in full riot gear stormed the hall and made everyone put their markers down. The markers were siezed to be checked. Of course all of them had adjustable regs and were shooting, with ramping, at 300 fps during the tournament. We hear that police were tipped off by someone with a grudge against paintball.

So what does this really mean? Well, since all paintball markers have adjustable regs, this means that paintball has actually been illegal in Germany all along. That’s right, the Millenium series events, all the German pro and semi pro teams, all the fields – it’s been illegal the whole time. Unfortunately for the paintball community in Germany the fact that they never tried to follow the laws will weigh heavily against them when it comes time to fight any future laws against paintball.

If we’re fortunate, the German government will have no choice but to rework the laws so that paintball can continue. That’s if we’re lucky. Otherwise there is a good chance that this will mark the end of organised tournament paintball in Germany.

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Op dinsdag 17 november 2009 19:48 schreef Knoflook het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 24 november 2009 22:57 schreef Knoflook het volgende:
Ik ben ook nog steeds elke zondag op het veld. Met de uitzondering van een kater.
Btw wie spelen hier eigenlijk woodsball ?
Ik ben er dus een van. Sup air vind ik maar niks. Ik ben ook zo eigenwijs om geen response of elektro trigger te nemen, gewoon omdat ik auto niks aan vind.
Heb alleen een cyclone op mijn tippie. Met remote en vest. Ben ook niet van plan om helemaal uit te pakken. Wel kleine hebbe dingetjes; scope etc.

Btw wat doet die winterpaint soms pijn zeg!