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It's almost like you're closing in on Europe.

I'm pretty sure that by the time I'm 65+ things like pensions won't even exist anymore and all the money that's gone into it went poof.

 Soladrin wrote:

I think the important point is free people are showing state and local governments they have choices and will exercise them. It shows other people and businesses that they too have choices. What if Coke and PepsiCo decided to remove their facilities from NY and not to ship product there any more?

Heath problems in the state would plummet in a few years?

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

I get the feeling that many non-Americans think we go out in public in this:


And that all of our family pictures are this:


And that we arm our trucks with this:


And that we all have this in our backyard:


Cuz... you know... 'Murrica!

whembly wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

I get the feeling that many non-Americans think we go out in public in this:

Spoiler:

And that all of our family pictures are this:


And that we arm our trucks with this:


And that we all have this in our backyard:

Cuz... you know... 'Murrica!

Some people do. Honestly, some people do. Not many, but some. (see: open carry + semi-auto rifles)

 whembly wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

I get the feeling that many non-Americans think we go out in public in this:


And that all of our family pictures are this:


And that we arm our trucks with this:


And that we all have this in our backyard:


Cuz... you know... 'Murrica!

Wait, we don't? er...


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 azazel the cat wrote:

whembly wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

I get the feeling that many non-Americans think we go out in public in this:

Spoiler:

And that all of our family pictures are this:


And that we arm our trucks with this:


And that we all have this in our backyard:

Cuz... you know... 'Murrica!

Some people do. Honestly, some people do. Not many, but some. (see: open carry + semi-auto rifles)

Really? And what do you base this on again? Its not like you live here or anything and could base that on personal experience. Take me for an example. I don't have a B-52 in my backyard. I'm old school. I have a Zeppelin.

 Frazzled wrote:


Wait, we don't? er...

Well, not all of us anyway.

 Grundz wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

I think the important point is free people are showing state and local governments they have choices and will exercise them. It shows other people and businesses that they too have choices. What if Coke and PepsiCo decided to remove their facilities from NY and not to ship product there any more?

Heath problems in the state would plummet in a few years?

Erm, I didn't say that...

 Soladrin wrote:

 Grundz wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

I think the important point is free people are showing state and local governments they have choices and will exercise them. It shows other people and businesses that they too have choices. What if Coke and PepsiCo decided to remove their facilities from NY and not to ship product there any more?

Heath problems in the state would plummet in a few years?

Erm, I didn't say that...

He does that...

I think it's more a case of.. he fethed up the quotation marks.

I don't think so. The connection between health and soda makes it a logical quote.

I think you misunderstood the problem. He put my name above something said by CptJake.

LOL Easy E did that to me on a thread I was staying out of awhile back. He mixed up his soldiers.

That crewchief carrying the air 60's. paid 200 hundred bucks to have that done to his face shield. Article in US Army times did an interview on him. So began ths slow crackdown on unauthorize "warpaint"

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 Soladrin wrote:

 Grundz wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

I think the important point is free people are showing state and local governments they have choices and will exercise them. It shows other people and businesses that they too have choices. What if Coke and PepsiCo decided to remove their facilities from NY and not to ship product there any more?

Heath problems in the state would plummet in a few years?

Erm, I didn't say that...

my bad, when i quote someone who quoted a quote and then try to trim it down to be less a-holish to have a few lines to reply to a screen that people have already read, things get dicey.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

oddly enough, flame throwers are completly unrestricted in canada, yet we have no burgeoning flame thower making industry, nor has anyone been killed with one here (in ever, or at least I cannot find a citable example)

easysauce wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

oddly enough, flame throwers are completly unrestricted in canada, yet we have no burgeoning flame thower making industry, nor has anyone been killed with one here (in ever, or at least I cannot find a citable example)

They're unrestricted in many US states as well, as there is no federal ban against them. Somehow it's not a problem.

 Grundz wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

 Grundz wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:

I think the important point is free people are showing state and local governments they have choices and will exercise them. It shows other people and businesses that they too have choices. What if Coke and PepsiCo decided to remove their facilities from NY and not to ship product there any more?

Heath problems in the state would plummet in a few years?

Erm, I didn't say that...

my bad, when i quote someone who quoted a quote and then try to trim it down to be less a-holish to have a few lines to reply to a screen that people have already read, things get dicey.

That's what I figured.

Also, I now expect more flamethrower related issues.

SImiliar contraption use by Forestery service to burn undergrowth out...but those are hand carried.....if you thiknking combat type flame thrower....you really want something like that on your back?.....some people smoke to....and might for the moment forget whats on their back and light up? Not sure how flame throwers got involved. We do have a couple manufactors for grendaes though....typical frag grenade cost vs making a pipe bomb?

 Soladrin wrote:

Also, I now expect more flamethrower related issues.

Prepare to be disappointed.

 Jihadin wrote:
SImiliar contraption use by Forestery service to burn undergrowth out...but those are hand carried.....if you thiknking combat type flame thrower....you really want something like that on your back?

There's some pretty serious "flame throwers" that corps use to burn down new tar on their office building roofs as well.

easysauce wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

oddly enough, flame throwers are completly unrestricted in canada, yet we have no burgeoning flame thower making industry, nor has anyone been killed with one here (in ever, or at least I cannot find a citable example)

Wait....... I can buy a flamethrower but not a snub nosed revolver? Sweet!

 Hordini wrote:
They're unrestricted in many US states as well, as there is no federal ban against them. Somehow it's not a problem.

It's not a problem because the type of person who think it's a good idea to make a flamethrower in their home usually, you know, fixes the problem themselves.

Yeah, just because you can make a Flamethrower doesn't mean you should.

 Tazz Azrael wrote:

easysauce wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Connecticut passed a law allowing people to carry grenades and flamethrowers. The new, business friendly environment would lead to the creation of much employment and tax revenues from companies setting up to manufacture the weapons.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on here...

30 round mags and semi auto rifles are not quite the same as flamethrowers and grenades....

oddly enough, flame throwers are completly unrestricted in canada, yet we have no burgeoning flame thower making industry, nor has anyone been killed with one here (in ever, or at least I cannot find a citable example)

Wait....... I can buy a flamethrower but not a snub nosed revolver? Sweet!

ridiculous part is, yes you can buy a snub nosed revolver, so long as its an antique...

all the old webly mark 2 era revolvers and the like from before a certain are "antiques" here, so no license, no registration needed, carrying one isnt illegal (technically, you might still get charged with something bogus, you wont do jail time, but you will spend all your $ in court)
under our law they are no different from paper weights.

40mm grenade launchers are also non restricted, same with 28mm ones,

yet:
nunchuks= prohibited
throwing stars= prohibited
flails= prohibited

easysauce wrote:

nunchuks= prohibited

Wait what?

Wait... how the hell can you lot buy a 40mm grenade launcher? That's a Class IV destructive device here in the states. 28mm launchers are usually just flare guns of one function or another and are unrestricted.

They can get 14.5mm PTRs too.
And the new chinese QBZ based rifles.
And they've had proper SIG 55Xs for years.
And the TAVORs....

Between CA and .ca, I have to wonder which is actually more like the USA on the issue.

easysauce wrote:ridiculous part is, yes you can buy a snub nosed revolver, so long as its an antique...

all the old webly mark 2 era revolvers and the like from before a certain are "antiques" here, so no license, no registration needed, carrying one isnt illegal (technically, you might still get charged with something bogus, you wont do jail time, but you will spend all your $ in court)
under our law they are no different from paper weights.

40mm grenade launchers are also non restricted, same with 28mm ones,

yet:
nunchuks= prohibited
throwing stars= prohibited
flails= prohibited

I'll admit that I'm quite rusty when it comes to antique firearms laws in Canada as it doesn't apply to me, but this doesn't quite sound right... I'm very certain that you can only transport them while unloaded and in locked, opaque containers.

Also, I believe spiked bracelets are also considered prohibited.





EDIT: and in a weird and arbitrary turn, I believe that 3-piece nunchuks, whatever they're called, are perfectly fine. But not the traditional two-piece

Flame thrower...grenades...and now 40mm grenade launchers.....talk about going to the deep end.

 azazel the cat wrote:

easysauce wrote:ridiculous part is, yes you can buy a snub nosed revolver, so long as its an antique...

all the old webly mark 2 era revolvers and the like from before a certain are "antiques" here, so no license, no registration needed, carrying one isnt illegal (technically, you might still get charged with something bogus, you wont do jail time, but you will spend all your $ in court)
under our law they are no different from paper weights.

40mm grenade launchers are also non restricted, same with 28mm ones,

yet:
nunchuks= prohibited
throwing stars= prohibited
flails= prohibited

I'll admit that I'm quite rusty when it comes to antique firearms laws in Canada as it doesn't apply to me, but this doesn't quite sound right... I'm very certain that you can only transport them while unloaded and in locked, opaque containers.

no it doesnt sound right, but its true, for antiques they are just that "antiques" under the law, not fire arms. Our firearms laws have been a complete mess of feel good do nothing laws that cost absurd amounts of $ for no real benefit since the 90's, unless you count discouraging private gun owner ship as a benefit of course.

normal pistols(not antiques, antiques are paper weights under the law) you have to be transporting them unloaded, trigger locked, and in locked opaque container. you also cannot take them anywhere except on a direct route to the approved range, and then, only if you have obtained prior authorization to transport from your provinces pertanent CFO.

so if you stop at mcdonalds en route to the range, you are breaking federal law. if you dont call and get authorization (in writing... thank god they started e-mailing these now) you are breaking federal law. If you forget either your license, or registration certificate at home, again, breaking federal law.

not that any of that stops crooks at all, they still do whatever they want with guns.