Most Excellent thread! I would even say Dead Thread, if the topic was not so vitally important to the survival of our sport.
I have one other topic to add to this:
Shooting At UnAcceptable Targets
It seems like once a month I read a story on one of the many internet news sites about how a bunch of kids, or a couple of drunk frats, or just some random guy got arrested for shooting at a skunk, or some stray dogs down the street, or the new public library.
How can our sport expect to become (and stay) mainstream, or even legal for that matter, if stupid people insist on doing stupid things with their paintball markers.
It'll be a bunch of nubs like these who end up ruining the sport for the rest of us.