PaintballX3 Magazine October, 2013 | Page 104

TOURNAMENT Review And it’s much safer, more affordable and way more accessible than doing so with any type of firearm. As an avid firearm shooter, even in the firearm-friendly state of Virginia, finding a safe place to shoot firearms is tough, fully automatic firearms are heavily regulated, expensive to come-by legally and thanks to the current political and economic climate, ammunition is scarce and extremely expensive when I can find it. To be able to take a six millimeter airgun into the back yard and do work on a bunch of cans, bottles, rotten tomatoes or paper targets much more quietly (and legally) than I ever could with a firearm, in fully automatic, and do so with the paintball equipment I already have is something very appealing to me. The concept of possible future air- 104 soft crossover purely adds another exciting dimension to this concept-turned-reality called the Morph Fire. Everyone take a deep breath. At the end of the day the Morph Fire is a BB conversion kit for a paintball gun. For those who just like to play paintball, aren’t interested in airsoft and don’t want or need a BB gun, this may be the answer to a question you didn’t ask (though shooting one might change your mind). Those like me, however, who enjoy shooting all sorts of things from paintball guns to firearms safely and doing so with friends and family young and old, the Morph Fire system adds a further use to an expensive piece of hobby equipment, a paintball gun, that doesn’t permanently alter its abili- PAINTBAL paintbal