in the 90's , Newton was the wild west and took over that title from Whalley, that held it from the 70's LOLNewton! Says it all. I have a colleague who lives in that corner of paradise. We always joke about the 'last' gunbattle on her street or whether the cops raided someone in the neighbourhood. Other than the cretins, she says it is affordable and her commute is reasonable.
As a early 20's sumthin kid trying to navigate life we would get pulled over constantly driving thru those areas of the lowermainland.
I finally got out of the delta/surrey rat race in 94 and moved to chillwack and left that nonsense behind.
Back when i bought and owned that M72 , you didn't even need to own a license but Allan did have a big sign that declared no sales of paintball , air guns or knives/hatchets to minors. I was probably 18 when i bought that thing, had it for a few years before it got stolen from my trunk. Didn't realize it was gone till I got home to unpack my paintball guns and gear which were all still in the trunk. He stole it because he didn't even mention it. Just asked why I had all the gear in the trunk and told him i was coming from the tsawassen paintball field to drop off a friend. My mistake for having nothing to hide and popping the trunk for him to have a look. Crazy that something a person could buy and own with any kind of license in 89/90 is now a prohibitted weapon in 2025..... ridiculous.
Considering I made my own "rocket launcher" a short time later out of PVC and pipe made out of tig welded bean cans..... used to launch model rockets out of it on halloween LOL then modified it into a paintball grenade launcher that was used on several licensed paintball fields. Should have patented that sucker as they were availlable as a retail product a few years later, just looked more professional LOL
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