Based on the investigation of two deaths caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) tanks flying off paintball guns, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) advices paintball gun users that the brass or nickel-plated valve that connects directly to the tank must not be unscrewed from the tank when removing the tank assembly from a paintball marker. This valve must stay secured and rotate with the CO2 canister.

In both of the deaths investigated by CPSC, the brass valve unscrewed from the canister, turning the pressurized tank into a deadly projectile. In June 2003, a 15-year-old boy died after being struck in the head by a paintball CO2 canister as he was removing the canister from the gun. In February 2004, a female bystander was killed by a CO2 canister that was expelled as someone else was removing the canister from a paintball gun.

The CO2 tank assembly should unscrew from the paintball gun in about three or four full turns; if you finish the 4th full turn and the canister is not unscrewed from the marker, stop! Take it to a professional.

I hope all newbies and other paintballers in this forum know the dangers of gas canisters  i am writing this to prevent a future death in cause of the gas bottles. 

bravecoward wrote: copy-paste?

yeah the top non bold part was copied and pasted i got it of some random pop-up and i thought it would make paintballing just that little bit safer if i told everyone in the forum  

bluemunky42 wrote: when the tanks starts hissing madly, you know something bad is going to happen. this is when you point the bloody thing at the ground to avoid killing someone.

Had that happen to me before.

cdacda13 wrote: CO2 sucks.

So true.

This has been posted before.