Thread: Border agents to use paintball guns to fend off attackers

ok let's make this recommendation to the "powers that be" - give the National Guard assisting in securing the borders the paint ball guns at least and let the BP use the real fire! It's my understanding that the Nat'l Guard is supposed to be working alongside the BP so at least let them do something for the time as well as practice their shooting talents

What! The border patrol has been reduced to paintball guns..pathetic. When agents are killed with real guns and the rest of them are wondering why they have a paintball gun in their hands, s--- is going to hit the fan.

Small welt or not, human rights activists say it is a bad idea, even for a line of defense

So they simply do not want the BP to defend themselves or this country I have to presume.

Hey I say that the BP needs to roll back the years and get in some lead shots, maybe get a few "human rights activist" as well.

Paintball guns are for games. Our border, our border agent's lives and national security are not a game.

Would the government send a soldier into Iraq armed with a paintgun--the U.S.-Mexican border is just as much a war zone as are the battlefields in Iraq.

Has the Secret Service exchanged their weapons for paintguns to guard the president, vice president, former presidents, and presidential candidates?

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If the border agents intend to mark the attackers with paint, it is a lost cause--that would take cooperation from Mexican authorities.

This happened in 2005.

Thu 25 Aug 2005

U.S. border patrol helicopter downed by illegals


U.S. Border Patrol Yuma sector public affairs officer Michael Gramley pulls the cover off one of the rotors of a Border Patrol helicopter that was struck by a rock Tuesday night. Sun photo/Alfred J. Hernandez

Dan Whitcomb, Reuters, via Google News, reports:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing after illegal immigrants pelted it with baseball-sized rocks, damaging a rotor, a spokesman for the agency said on Thursday.

There were no injuries as the helicopter’s pilot was able to set the aircraft down just north of the All American Canal on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, Border Patrol spokesman Michael Gramley said.

Authorities say smugglers are becoming increasingly willing to use violence against border patrol agents as their trade becomes more profitable, with smugglers able to earn about $2,000 per person.

The helicopter pilot was responding to a call for help from agents on the ground on Tuesday evening when about 10 people on the south bank of the canal began hurling large rocks at the aircraft.

“One of the rocks struck one of the three rotors and the pilot instantly felt a bad vibration as he was flying,â€

Paintball Guns? What moron came up with that idea. If you want to use non-lethal force, use rubber bullets, beanbag guns(knocks im right on their a**). paintball guns are toys and not for serious law enforcement.
Why don't you just give them water pistols while your at it

Strange.

We'll see if it works.

This is the stupidest idea I have ever seen. No doubt we will see Border Patrol agents get killed over this stupidity.

These paint guns ought to work real well against the AK-47s the drug cartel is using.

Yep I agree since the Border Patrol must now use Paint Guns, I can't wait to see the Secret Service protecting Dumbo with this: