Originally a family-owned business run from Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 2004 Dennis Tippmann Sr. sold a majority ownership stake to Summit Partners, a private equity firm.

However, a change in gun laws led to entry into the paintball market in 1986; forming the Tippmann Pneumatics Incorporated company.

[2] In June 2004, Tippmann announced that the company had completed a financial recapitalization with private equity and venture capital firm Summit Partners.

A full line of paintball harnesses, protective gear, tank covers, apparel, bags, pods and other miscellaneous accessories were immediately integrated into Tippmann’s existing product offering.

The Tactical version features a 6-position adjustable stock, barrel shroud, forward grip, and a removable carry handle, similar to that seen on the Alpha Black Elite.

Other advancements and features include integrated break beam anti-chop eyes, low pressure operation under 300 PSI allowing users to use LPA tanks and a magnetic hall effect trigger.

Being a "hybrid" marker, the Crossover board comes with pre-installed tournament modes for semi-pro and professional speedball play.

As an added bonus of having a bottom regulator, the Crossover has the ability to utilize an internal gas line to keep the marker cleaner looking on the outside.

The new body design can allow field owners to easily and quickly maintain their markers, with a savings of 75% in work time.

The marker is flat-topped, and unlike earlier 98 Customs, comes pre-grooved to allow the use of all picatinny accessories like sights, scopes and handles right out of the box.

The marker features a new finish and a textured vertical foregrip with internal locking pins to provide extra stability.

It has an internal gas line, fixed center-feed neck, a top cocking knob, and a 2 finger blade trigger.

It was designed to give entry-level players on a budget an easy to maintain, effective and reliable marker for the lowest price possible.

Its price is comparable to many of the "no-name" guns found in department stores, however the common parts and proven design make it far more reliable and repairable, allowing for years of use.

The Tippmann A5 could easily accept standard ASA expansion chambers and regulators allowing easier performance upgrades, unlike the later X-7.

This enables the marker to have a higher rate of fire than a gravity feed without the addition of a battery-operated loader (at the cost of air efficiency).

[2] Internally, the X7 Phenom is pioneered with Tippmann's new "Flex Valve" technology, allowing the marker to fire with under 300 PSI, making it more air/CO2 efficient.

The TPX can also be powered on both HPA or CO2 by an external source using an adapter or can utilize a 12 gram cartridge that is inserted into a chamber under the barrel.

Similar to Tippman's other markers, the TPX utilizes the "clamshell" design and in place of metal uses a high-impact polymer to help keep down the weight.

Accessories for the pistol include the Remote Line Adapter kit, which allows users to use an external continuous air source like HPA or CO2.

With the redesign, Tippmann added on their removable M16 carry handle, and re-designed the handguard to feature a Picatinny rail to allow the use of foregrips.

The Alpha Black Elite Powerpack, consisting of the marker, and a beginners kit made of a mask, 9 oz (260 g) CO2 tank and hopper.

It hits the valve and is blown back open, where it re-engages the linkage arm and retracts the bolt, letting the paintball fall into the breech correctly.

The system uses excess carbon dioxide or compressed air from the firing process to reset the trigger and sear with a pneumatic cylinder.

Due to the safety hazards and field regulations of using explosives, they use an expanded bladder filled with a paint mix similar to that in a paintball.

It featured a MilSim body design, including an array of picatinny rails, a strong lightweight magnesium receiver, a low profile cyclone hopper, and an M16 magazine shaped tool kit.

It had a built-in back bottle setup that ran on liquid CO2 and was very inefficient, due to the small valve and heavy hammer (nearly 1 pound).

Most importantly, the constant-air adapter was relocated to an ergonomic position in the base of the cast grip frame meaning that players could easily aim with a full mask on.

The F/A was a select fire, force fed, blowback paintball gun based on the Pro-Am/Pro-Lite body, with the Star feed apparatus on the side.

The feed neck turned out to be the only weak spot, which led to the development of a new model, a combination of the Pro-Lite forearm breech and the Carbine receiver.