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25th October 11, 06:43 AM
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Re: Kilted Paintball
 Originally Posted by Laird_M
A 'marker' is the 'gun'. To try and remove the 'warfare' and militaria connections, the governing bodies, certainly in the UK, decided to rename them 'markers' as the project 'marks' your 'target', so mummy wouldn't complain that her little Johnny is going around shooting people.
Pure semantics of course but...
Thanks, Martin.
So either, you're good at this or you're a "marked man".
Regards
Chas
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