Short answer:
YES
Long Answer:
Yes you can, make sure to avoid using damaged or phony helmets and everything will go fine.
STORY:
After two years of not playing paintball i decided to go back and play Paintball again, and i had a very bad experience with the regular masks for paintball, I was playing on an arena covered in debri, since it was a "war recreation arena" so I hard a lot of frequent encounters with the floor a gift from poor vision and large rocks, so i decided to buy a Riot helmet after seeing gone recive several shoots from a crossbow, yesterday i finally put it to the test on a Paintball Tournament. And ladys and gentlemen it worked fine. It withstand an aproximate of 27 shoots from less than 20 meters.
