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[–] Talc 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

If you go shooting at people with paintball guns I'd be prepared to bet that it's a matter of hours before some LEO uses that as an opportunity to deliberately mistake your paintball gun for a real one. Doesn't matter which side of the conflict you're on, while you've any gun-like object in your hands you're a free ticket to a year's paid vacation for him. I'd suggest a catapult and some heavy steel ballbearings as a pre-arm that's less likely to get you executed on the spot.

Don't tie the padlock to the bandana, makes it identifiable as a weapon. Loop it thru so they can be separated quickly by pulling one end of the bandana or used as a weapon by holding both ends, whole thing lives in a pocket and can be drawn out as a weapon or as two innocent unrelated items which will easily pass the most stringent security checks.

If you find yourself adjacent to a melee and unarmed you can quickly improvise a similar weapon by slipping off one of your socks and putting a can of soda or a couple of rocks inside.

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[–] Talc ago 

It'll collapse eventually, yes, depends on the strength of sock and on what you're hitting, but it's a whole lot better than nothing. Also, as long as you have 2 feet you have 2 socks, you could double them up for strength, keep a hot spare or even dual-wield!

I've seen a sock and pool balls used in anger, the recipient was totally out of the fight after just 4 swings and would have needed extensive surgery, the sock (appeared to be a cheap workboot sock) looked like it would have been fine after laundering, there were no obvious rips where it had hit the head.