I think Tippmann saw a good product that happens to also impart good marketing to public ignorance and is using it to make a boat load of cash. The average person on the street buying their first paintball gun don't know about how barrels affect a paintball and just use common knowledge of bullets and rifled barrels to make associations. People walk in, grab a gun, hear about this barrel, think it'll be great, and pick it up too. In a way, Tippmann is targeting the impulse buyer.

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