Here in TX, air-powered or spring powered projectiles are treated as firearms, and require a permit from the sheriff & the presence of a deputy to use in public (like in your back yard at a kids’ party).
Which is why I made my kids a really good potato cannon. Those are perfectly legal to discharge, even in the yard of my suburban home, for purposes of pyrotechnic displays.
The kids frequently took bags of potatoes and that spudgun out into the woods to plant crops and make booms.
I find that interesting in the context of an armed robbery… In many states, if you imply that you have a weapon and the victim thinks you actually do, that becomes armed robbery even if you do not actually have a weapon.
Makes sense to me. If you walk into a convenience store and politely ask the clerk for all the money in the safe and they give it to you (without any threat of deadly force, of course, because the firearm you stuck in their terrified face was a bb gun), and they give it to you, you have obviously not committed a crime. You have simply been given a very generous gift.
Lovely. has anyone asked how much this alleged Judge had to drink?
December 1st, 2015 at 12:43 am
And I do hereby rule that water can wet things and fire can burn. So sayeth I, the grand fucking poobah!
December 1st, 2015 at 1:14 pm
Here in TX, air-powered or spring powered projectiles are treated as firearms, and require a permit from the sheriff & the presence of a deputy to use in public (like in your back yard at a kids’ party).
Which is why I made my kids a really good potato cannon. Those are perfectly legal to discharge, even in the yard of my suburban home, for purposes of pyrotechnic displays.
The kids frequently took bags of potatoes and that spudgun out into the woods to plant crops and make booms.
December 2nd, 2015 at 3:44 am
I find that interesting in the context of an armed robbery… In many states, if you imply that you have a weapon and the victim thinks you actually do, that becomes armed robbery even if you do not actually have a weapon.
December 6th, 2015 at 10:03 am
Makes sense to me. If you walk into a convenience store and politely ask the clerk for all the money in the safe and they give it to you (without any threat of deadly force, of course, because the firearm you stuck in their terrified face was a bb gun), and they give it to you, you have obviously not committed a crime. You have simply been given a very generous gift.
Lovely. has anyone asked how much this alleged Judge had to drink?