Paintball is a fast and furious
sport. It is played on both a
social and serious level by over 16
million people around the world
(Cooke,11). It is one of the
fastest growing sports on the
planet. Paintball's history, games,
guns, and safety are all part of
the fun.

In 1970, James Hale, an engineer,
invented and patented the first
commercially successful paintball
gun. Paintball guns were first used
by the National Forest Association
to mark trees that would be cut
down. Then, it was used to mark
cattle by cowboys. One night while
sitting around a campfire, one
cowboy shot another and that is how
the game of paintball got started.
This "splotchmaker" can rightfully
claim to be the grandfather of
modern paintball guns (Peters, 73).

Over the next two decades, Daisy
Manufacturing Co. Inc. of Airgun
Frames manufactured these guns
under contract for the Nelson Paint
Co. During this twenty year span,
paintball evolved from a
"survivalist" game into the......

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