Admiral Valdemar wrote:
A store in town that sells outdoor hobby goods and swords etc. also sells BB guns and toy guns that look authetic bar one or two details like a red muzzle or something.
Replica weapons may soon be illegal.
Mainly because they can often be retooled to fire live ammunition, given a machine shop and sufficiant knowledge, and because they are often used for intimidation in muggings..
I used to have a couple of cap guns, mainly western era pistols (including a Derringer, that was really loud, as the cap was exposed). Don't know what happened to them, lost interest when computers happened.
Vendetta wrote:
Replica weapons may soon be illegal.
Mainly because they can often be retooled to fire live ammunition, given a machine shop and sufficiant knowledge,
Of course, with the same equipment and knowledge you could easily build a gun from scratch.
and because they are often used for intimidation in muggings..
I'm sure the criminals will give a fuck.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:
Of course, with the same equipment and knowledge you could easily build a gun from scratch.
You could, but the materials to build an entire gun take a lot more obtaining and machining than stripping down an identical replica and fitting a working mechanism.
It won't stop people, but it will make heir lives harder, increase their workload, and make their activity less profitable. If they have to do three times as much work and buy three times as many parts, they can't sell the product as cheaply or prolifically
I'm sure the criminals will give a fuck.
No, they won't. They don't already. But banning the sale, manufacture, and import of replica weapons is going to make it a shitload harder for the kind of people who use replicas in this fashion to obtain them. It won't stop many crimes, because people will use knives instead, but it will make it less easy for people to intimidate someone.
You could, but the materials to build an entire gun take a lot more obtaining and machining than stripping down an identical replica and fitting a working mechanism.
It won't stop people, but it will make heir lives harder, increase their workload, and make their activity less profitable. If they have to do three times as much work and buy three times as many parts, they can't sell the product as cheaply or prolifically
If you're going to take the time to retool a replica into a functional weapon, you're taking suffiecent time that could be used to just make one.
Besides, buying a blackmarket or illegal 'Midnight Special' would be infinately cheaper and thus more worriesome.
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Vendetta wrote:
Mainly because they can often be retooled to fire live ammunition, given a machine shop and sufficiant knowledge, and because they are often used for intimidation in muggings..
Hey moron, think for a moment, a gun is essentially a device that contains
a small EXPLOSION, which is used to propel a bullet at high speeds. Now,
most replica guns are made of cheap iron, which isn't enough to contain
the explosion of a modern cartridge without blowing up in your face...
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When police in britain conductes a firearms seizure operation last year, seventy two percent of everything they siezed was a replica, starter pistol, airgun, or blank firer converted to fire live bullets.
If I had a kid (and someday I shall with any luck), i'd let them play at your place...
Seriously, the Toy RPG is cool. As is the darksabre. All you need now is a few toy phasers (The ST:6 version) and you could start the film version of Conquest
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Sea Skimmer wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
Of course! If you're going to play war, you need more than just a bunch of assault rifles
So when's the Terminator Resistance conversion scheduled for your car?
When he finds where you get one of those toy HKs from T3
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I think the city council here banned realistic-looking toy guns for fear of confusion with the real thing.
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Vendetta wrote:When police in britain conductes a firearms seizure operation last year, seventy two percent of everything they siezed was a replica, starter pistol, airgun, or blank firer converted to fire live bullets.
I think this is a result of the fact that Britain has banned all privately-owned firearms save for shotguns, airguns and softguns - thus forcing gunshooters to "improvise".
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