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== History ==

=== Pacific Paintball origins ===

KAPP developed from the equipment manufacturing and customisation activities of Pacific Paintball, a paintball business based in Santa Rosa, California.

Pacific Paintball was operating by 1992. Historical interviews preserved by paintball researcher [[Daniel Bacci]] identify Chris Haggin and Richard Mansfield as co-owners of the business.[1]

During the early 1990s, Pacific Paintball customised [[Worr Game Products]] Autococker markers, including modifications to bodies, bolts and pneumatic components.

Examples of its custom Autocockers from approximately 1994 and 1995 survive in historical equipment collections.[2]

The business subsequently marketed products under the KAPP name.

The precise date when the KAPP brand was introduced has not been independently established.

=== Expansion during the late 1990s ===

KAPP developed a range of aftermarket components for Autocockers and other tournament markers.

At the 1998 [[National Professional Paintball League]] Las Vegas Open, Pacific Paintball and owner Chris Haggin exhibited the KAPP product range.[5]

The company's products included custom Autocockers, trigger frames, regulators, pneumatic components and compressed-air mounting accessories.

At the 2000 [[Paintball World Cup]], KAPP shared a trade-show display with [[Extreme Rage]]. Contemporary reporting by [[WARPIG]] documented both manufacturers exhibiting their products at the event.[6]

By the early 2000s, KAPP components were distributed through paintball retailers and used in customised tournament markers.

=== Later activity ===

KAPP continued appearing in tournament records and product coverage during the early 2000s.

At the 2002 Millennium Series event in Toulouse, France, WARPIG documented a Matrix LCD marker featuring KAPP flame-style body milling.[7]

The brand's original manufacturing operations subsequently ended, although the precise date and circumstances have not been reliably established.

Surviving original KAPP components continue to be sold through specialist vintage paintball retailers.[8]