Why are piercing guns so bad, they have been around so long they must work great, right???
WRONG! Time and experience are shedding new light on the terrible practice of piercing gun piercings and we urge you to heed the warnings….Getting pierced with a piercing-gun is very unhealthy for your body. A piercing-gun inflicts blunt trauma force to the body (sort of like trying to punch a hole through your arm with a small nail gun) which increases the chance for infection considerably and creates a very unpleasant healing process. ALL piercings should be performed with a hollow, surgical steel, tri-bevel or quad-bevel piercing needle. This will alleviate the problem of “blowout” (having a volcano-like build-up of flesh around the exit hole of your piercing) and decrease chances for infection. The first such problem is the risk of contracting disease. Most guns have plastic parts which cannot be properly sterilized, giving rise to the possibility of spreading bacterial infections, such as those suffered recently by a group of people here in Oregon after getting pierced at a mall
