I’m automatically dubious of anything this awesome, but someone is selling a six-barrel, 288-round-per-second paintball (originally typed: painful) mini-gun capable of being mounted to a jeep or carried around on one’s back, like Arnie The Body in Predator. Called the Veeker ML9, this ‘just a little out of regulation’ gun can be yours on eBay UK for the starting bid of around $14,000.
Whoever buys it, you have a duty to take a video and post it to the web. (Thanks, Helmuth!)
Read – L@@K BRAND NEW VEEKER ML9 PAINTBALL MINI GUN [eBayUK]
Update: Oh my god, you guys are all such huge nerds. Okay, it wasn’t Arnie, but a previous Governator, Jessie Ventura! I swear to god I think I’ve gotten more emails about this screwup than anything in my run as editor. If it weren’t such an egregious geek error on my part, I’d make fun of you all even more.
Reader Brian Little calls shenanigans after the jump.
Update update: It’s an Airsoft gun, not a paintball gun.
It
s Friday, so I decided to piss away my lunch hour looking after this marker. After a little searching, I gotta say — I think this is totally bogus.
Google Veeker ML9 (or some variant thereof). The only references you
ll find are that auction, and Havoc Paintball, which is in the UK. Odd that nobody else mentions this marker on their site — not even a marker review page, especially since it
s allegedly made by
a top US company.
I strongly suspect that the seller — Bob
s Bits and Bobs — is related to Havoc Paintball, because the text of the eBay ad and the text of the Havoc description are right similar, and the images are identical.
Speaking of the image: Have a closer look. Those look a helluva lot like standard shells in that belt, to me. Also conspicuous by their absence are any kind of feed lines, or any CO2 tank of a size that would be require to spew 288 rounds a second.
Finally, that feed rate is just stupid — you
d be clipping balls left and right using any kind of standard ammo.
Fake, I tells ya.
Ooh, this explains it. Thanks, Alaric!
The person calling shennanigans is both right and wrong.
The gun is not a paintball gun, it’s an airsoft gun. Airsoft is a similar sport to paintball, but the large paint rounds are replaced by light plastic 6mm BBs. Airsoft is very popular in Japan and Hong Kong, and has a growing, but small, following in the US, Canada, and UK. For more information on airsoft http://www.redwolfairsoft.com http://www.airsoftretreat.com and www.arniesairsoft.co.uk are good places to start.
That M-134 gatling gun pictured is manufactured by a gentleman in Dallas, Texas and is one of the few US made airsoft weapons. As I recall they ran approximately $5000 new and were done in a very limited quantities a couple of eyars ago. The original version of the gun fired lead pellets. The feed belt is fake in that it does not deliver any ammunition to the weapon, but instead hides the air feed lines that originate from the backpack. Http://www.pipersprecisionproducts.com/ is the website of the creator and contains videos ( http://www.pipersprecisionproducts.com/videos.htm ) of his different creations in action.
Reviews and previews of the airsoft gun can be found here http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/news/newsarticles/q_project_240502.htm http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/BulletDetail?bulletID=21 http://fpszine.com/downloads/fpsjune.pdf
