Pepper ball launcher? Or paintball gun?

The pepper ball launcher in the picture uses Tippmann's 98Custom color bullet gun as the blueprint, adds the AR-style tail bracket, and adds the identification of PepperBall and hkp to show that the gun is hkp as the special equipment for launching pepper balls. There is a leather rail on the top of the box, and the Holosun's red spot sight is installed, which can effectively improve the shooting accuracy of the pepper ball launcher. The shell of the launcher is made of black matte engineering plastic, Lightweight and tough.

Recently, the STS team of HKP adopted the pepper ball launcher jointly launched by Tippmann and PepperBall of the United States, which is specially used to launch pepper balls to control and disperse rioters. This pepper ball is like a bullet of a paintball gun. Its surface is a fragile hard shell, but its contents are changed from colored paint to powdered tear gas. After hitting the ground or human body, the shell will break and release tear gas to prevent the target from moving.

Basic parameters of Tippmann 98Custom color bullet gun:

Caliber: 0.68 inches, firing mode: semi-automatic (open back seat), power source: compressed air, nitrogen or CO2, magazine capacity: 200 pieces, firing rate: about 8 rounds/second, standard barrel length: 8.5 inches, firing length (standard barrel, no gas cylinder): 19.63 inches, full gun weight: 2.9 pounds, effective range: more than 150 feet, muzzle velocity: the user manual requires that the muzzle velocity of the color bullet gun must be measured before using it, It is not allowed to continue to be used to launch color bullets when the initial speed exceeds 300 FPS, and needs to be adjusted.

Bullet diameter: 0.68 inches, bullet weight: about 3 grams, shell: fragile plastic shell, initial speed: 300-350 FPS (91-106 m/s), impact kinetic energy: 14-16 J (the kinetic energy of beanbag projectile reached 163J).

From the above parameters, we can learn several important features: 1. The paintball gun can be fired continuously and has high fire sustainability. 2. Small size and light weight. 3. The effective range is considerable, can exceed 45 meters, and the muzzle speed is adjustable. 4. The damage to the target is relatively lower and safer.

For law enforcement departments, using it to launch pepper balls can not only control a single target, but also continuously suppress a group of targets. In addition, the amount of 200 rounds of bullets is considerable. In addition, the longer range avoids the risk of police officers facing danger at close range. Above the safe distance, the convenience of pepper balls can be used to effectively drive away and control illegal personnel, and the missiles are also safer

Since Tippmann's 98Custom color bullet gun is a gun that uses air or compressed gas as the power to launch spherical bullets, it must be operated in strict accordance with the safety rules for the use of guns. Furthermore, the purpose of using paintball gun to launch pepper ball is to stop illegal and criminal acts, and to ensure that it can be used safely and legally, Pepperball also specially opened the qualification certification course of pepper ball launcher to provide users with training and certification of the use qualification.

Because of the unique performance of the paintball gun, it is especially suitable for the law enforcement department to use it as a non-lethal weapon to launch pepper balls when people are under control, so it has been widely used not only in the United States, but also in other countries and regions.