Border Patrol using airguns?

[Tonykarter]

What is this the Border Patrol is using?  What is its purpose?

[dv8eod]

It's an FN303. Non-lethal paintball gun made at the plant in SC. Shoots a bunch of different finned paintballs at around 650fps.

[YEMX]

they make a pepper ball projectile as well. 

Here's a pic of the "paintballs":

[dv8eod]

They chrony them using a ball filled with iron filings. I can't remember how much they weigh. I do remember you don't want to get hit with one. A regular ole paintball will break the skin at close range. It says specifically not to shoot at the head in the instructions. I wanted one so bad when I worked there.

[Nvreloader]

I used and trained many Correctional officers with the FN and Pepperbal weapons,
both were 69 cal, and had many options from water to OC filled balls.

Muzzle vel was 360 +/- fps and used 13/3000 psi tanks,
I am here to tell you, you don't want to experience a frozen water ball at 25',
you will have lots of black/blue marks and bruises for a couple of weeks...........

Shins/knee caps were the favorite target spots, ends of the toes plus several other spots,
had to pass a 3 day class, 80% or better and then receive 10 shots @ 75', every 6 months,
to use or carry it, had them in the housing units, rec yards/lock down areas, chow hall, etc.

It soon gained a lot of respect, when the call was "Get on the ground/Stop fighting",
and you didn't follow given verbal commands etc.   

Tia,
Don

[uglymike]

pepper spray on full auto?

[aluminumfetish]

Often in border patrol videos on youtube, they mention using paintball guns, I thought it was a joke. I see now that it wasn't.

[Bryan Heimann]

We were issued some of these fn paintball guns in afg.  Never used them, kind of a waste of time for an 11B.  If anybody ever needed shooting, they got a bullet.

[45Bravo]

  If anybody ever needed shooting, they got a bullet.

One of the cardinal rules of self defense, ammo is cheap, your life isn’t, anything worth shooting once, is worth shooting twice...