Washington Post, wtf happened to you?

Most knife laws are stupid as fuck. Could someone pls explain to me why for example butterfly knife is illegal, while standard flipblade is legal?

You can open both at about same speed. So where is a difrence?

But yeah- you guys should introduce more knife laws in US, just look how great it worked for UK

They got bought out by a progressive billionaire and the journalists simultaneously decided about the same time that being impartial isn't a worthwhile goal.

Here's a other takes. With respect to the NY case. The vice video is particularly worth watching, that's an interview with the guys doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2S_4G103Ik
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/nyregion/gravity-knife-cuomo-veto.html

Also, the "butterfly knife" and "flipblade" distinction often comes down to the mood of the officer that day.

Here's a website that sells knives and appears to have a good handle on what the law says precisely. Reading between the lines, you can see how the knife laws are a little silly. A Swiss army knife, if opened in one hand with a flick could be illegal as a gravity knife. A stiletto or dirk is legal, provided you don't intend to use it, but when you are seen carrying such a knife it is the legal presumption you intend to use it unlawfully and can be arrested. Or a two edged hunting knife.

Also illegal to own *any* knife if you aren't a US citizen.

https://knifeup.com/new-york-knife-laws/

Why is it illegal? Alot of people in New York City are scared of anything that could hurt people (and aren't creative enough/aware enough to realize what a broad set of items that would include). They ban this stuff for "public safety" or to "think of the children."

Remember that Bloomberg (the billionaire funding Million Mom's March, Everytown, and just about every other major gun control group right now) is a proud New Yorker. If you haven't been to NYC it's hard to explain the mindset. But it is very much there and permeates the deep blue progressive cities.

**Forgotten Weapons** Uploaded a new youtube video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oPNbH7NRYw

I had a funny fact about guns but I forgot it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWDM6mUUl7w

Is it wrong that i now want to go and shoot clay blocks?

Yeah, knife laws are pretty dumb. If someone wants to commit a crime with a knife making us all carry around slow openening knives isn't going to do shit. They'll just open them before going to commit the crime. A simple fixed blade is going to be just as dangerous as any scary balisong. If anything it just makes it so that it's harder for someone with a knife to react to an emergency where a knife is needed.

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The second amendment protects this...

Have the Americans ever properly banned a weapon that the populace owns & then done something about it? I don't meant things like retroactively telling somebody to register their gun & then following it up with some charges & such. I mean outright "you cant own this at all now" type delios.

Technically, no. The closest thing to an outright "you can't own this anymore" ban was the closure of the machinegun registry. 1986 was the last year year you could register a machinegun with the ATF for personal ownership. Anyone can own a pre-86 machinegun with a tax stamp (assuming you live in a state where its legal to possess a machinegun), but any machinegun made after 1986 can only be possessed by someone with a license to sell and/or build firearms, colloquially referred to as a "dealer sample machinegun."

You know, putting the fire in firearms, I find it funny that there are only two places with restrictions on flame throwers in the USA, & those can be worked around with getting licenses or not making the flame throwers too big.

Napalm is incredibly easy to make, btw. Just don't keep it in glass bottles <a:le_meem_faec:397656976487874560>

Yeah, kinda like thermite, though they cant really do much to stop people making them.

**Forgotten Weapons** Uploaded a new youtube video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3D65N7k2Mk

@here did the plans and/or formula for the active ingredient for the heart attack gun ever get leaked?

Gonna pick up some pepperballs to protect my home and cook peppercorn steak.

at first I read that as "puppercorn steak"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4rVxhtUMAA3xSw.jpg

You’re in for it now Bork Bork

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/364839026227675137/491382514087362561/BSThwWTDS64.png

when redditors find firearms channels.doc

only at inrange

shooting matches?

2GACM and DB, two matches Karl runs out in Arizona

Lot of the footage is up on YT

The 2B happened at one of those

I want some obrezchaku. It's the ultimate weapon. You just knock their bullets out of the air as you close in range to shoot them

Well, Karl and Ian are Computer Nerds themselves, so its no surprise they attract other, likeminded people.

And the Nerds these days are into the crazy shit - like Cosplay.

Man, the cosplay scene is so lame these days. Like yeah the costume quality of some of the top cosplayers is far more impressive than what you could've expected in the past, but it's all become so commercialized. Like so many cosplayers seem to care more about cultivating their "brand" and hustling their social media than anything else.