Amazingly, they do not, depending who you ask. And people only ever ask Guinness.

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, also known as The MythBusters thanks to their long-running Discovery Channel show of the same name, do all sorts of strange things that most people would never attempt, doing them at a scale that most people could never attempt (it helps to have TV-production money bankrolling your giant-whatever project).

However, their names don't appear anywhere in the "Guinness World Records" book, the authority on world records since 1955.

Savage claims they set the record for the largest paintball gun in the world in 2008, and that they were going to be in the 2010 edition of the Guinness book for it, but they never were. As of now, there is no record in the book for the largest paintball gun.

It likely isn't breaking their hearts too badly, though, since setting the record would just have been a side benefit to their main task, which was to recreate the Mona Lisa in milliseconds using said gun (that's the sort of thing they do).

They were doing it to prove the power of a multi-core computer processor at a technology trade show. The 1,100-barrel gun was operated by such a computer, making it able to fire all of its barrels at once.

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