Well I am not sure if people don't want to read what has been said or cannot understand the Queens English, so I will try again and add a little bit of background and see if that helps it along.
Ramping/Assisted fire modes.
The Paintball Association approached the Home Office via our friends at the UKPSF to clarify any legal concerns they may have had on the solution we had to stop the advantage some (most) electronic guns had over others, It seemed obvious to me that guns were not shooting in semi mode and electronic assistance was in use if the user choose to believe it or not.
During the PA's development of this solution I was in contact with all the major manufacturers of tournament guns and and also the PSP, NPPL and the Millennium Series.
The PSP had already made a decision that it was going to introduce new rules the following season to enforce compulsory head Armour because they could not see a workable solution to an increasing problem, some of you may remember those experimental goggle sets that had cranial protection built in.
The NPPL was confident that their robot it had developed would detect any cheating software.
The Millennium Series wanted to see what the Americans did and would follow them.
The figure of fifteen balls per second was because of a poll on these very forums when I asked players what they truly thought they shot at and we even had a little experiment for them to take part in to help achieve a true reading.
A lot of talk was that top end competitions would supply sealed boards for use during the events, a great idea in principal, but so was communism, and just like Stalin doomed to failure because some! would get a better "sealed" board than others.
The manufacturers viewpoint was tell us what we have to do and it can be done, but a few resisted because they liked saying "our gun can fire at X balls per second" even if the proof was out saying human fingers couldn't.
A few most notably Planet provided lots of technical information that we could use.
We asked the Home Office on their viewpoint on the law as it pertained to paintball because a lot of so called law was just bull**** and was just crossed over from other stuff (like shooting)some people knew about so it must be right.
We believed we should not be grouped with "gun" users just because we used one and the Home Office agreed, and it ended up with paintball guns being classified as a TOY.
It was quick to point out that only a court of law could make a final decision but courts of law also look for guidance from the Home office.
So we was in the same boat as a guy selling and using water pistols and if that product shot one pint or one gallon of water a minute it was still a water pistol and still a toy.
So we had the clarification that we wanted, all modes were legal. Then we had to find a way to police what we wanted to use or it would have been a waste of time, I found it with the PACT sports timer. Ourselves and the PSP checked them out and found they worked a treat, I went to the States to meet the PSP to workout how the rule should be written and agreed to use the same mode.
The Millennium Series changed the mode slightly but still kept the same cap in place.
Americans being Americans did not like the two line rule I wanted to use and made it into four pages but it was there, in writing and in use, nobody had to use the goggle systems they had started to make and the cheats lost their advantage overnight (as long as they didn't play in the NPPL).
So to make it clear to those who still want to tie us up with UK gun law, water pistols are not controlled by that and neither are we.
If an event wanted to use uncapped fully auto - legally it could, but I believe it would be unwise.
Capped fully auto is no different to allowing ramping it just saves on your fingers
Russ
