Sling shot with wrist brace is illegal

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NY and MA. Hooda thunkit. :rolleyes:

Here (AZ) you are even allowed to have cops' impact weapons and "butterfly" knives. (I'm not sure about switchblades.) Not that I own any of these, but it's still legal.
 
:rolleyes: I am surprised they are still legal here in Illinois. Imagine children with those things. It could be dangerous and horrible. Someone could lose an eye. Or a kid could get shot because the officer thinks it is a gun. Or they could start vandalizing houses with them. The horror of it all.:rolleyes:

I am sure that was the thinking that got them banned in the first place. Why do nanny states think about what others may do rather than what they do?
 
They're legal in Kentucky but not for any kind of hunting. In fact there is a paragraph in the hunting rules booklets put out by our Fish and Fame department that refers to this.
 
The wrist bracket makes it more deadly:rolleyes::D



They are ok in Ohio.I might still have mine that I used to wreck havok on the local pigeon population,some 25 years ago.
 
Wrist Rocket

Well...Everybody knows that the wrist brace makes the things deadly accurate and much more powerful. With steel ball bearings, they can hit a man in the head at 200 paces, and can probably penetrate body armor. Some terrorist could possibly shoot down airplanes with a Wrist Rocket! America doesn't need sniper/anti-aircraft/cop-killer slingshots! Ban them all, I say! It's for the children! It's for the whales!

:rolleyes:

Do the people who make up these ridiculous laws realize how completely silly they are being?
 
You laugh, but like most of the things I liked to play with as a child, these slingshots are pretty dangerous in the wrong hands. I used to do several miles a day up and down the railroad tracks zapping anything that looked like it might break or pop in amusing fashion.

Around here, the railroad tracks are littered with small round iron balls about the size of the steel bearings they sell as slingshot ammunition, but I had a big shoulder pouch so I wasn't tied to the tracks if I needed to roam. :)
 
Not surprising here in NY....Read the rest of the applicable laws...pretty much ANYTHING that remotely resembles a weapon is illegal. (and I find itammusing that they mis-spell shuriken ("throwing stars").

On the other hand, i don't think these laws are heavily enforced---I've "surrendered" my "butterfly" knives (carry one on each side) upon entering a federal building (forgot to leave them in the car), which are considered "gravity knives", and they were returned to me by the LEOs, upon leaving said building.
 
tuner, They are legends in their own minds.:D :D


Imagine a sanitized "for the children" version out, its made of paper.



I can still go down to the local store and get a sling-shot for me or my 9 yr old son,matter of fact, bought my sons first bb gun there.I guess in some states, Im a felon for doing that.How ridiculous indeed.


All that is needed is parental supervision, not ridiculous laws.
 
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Don wrote:

>You laugh, but like most of the things I liked to play with as a child, these slingshots are pretty dangerous in the wrong hands.<
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heh...Pretty much everything that I played with at that age was dangerous.
Firecrackers...M-80s...Barlow knives...Baseball bats...Mary Lou XXXXX...:evil:
...Red Ryder BB guns...and homemade slingshots were all menaces to the public on a given Saturday afternoon.

"You'll put your eye out with that thing!":D

Remind me to tell ya about all the trouble I got into with a homemade Biblical-type sling....aka "Goatherd's Sling." Talk about a weapon of mass destruction! Talk about range! WOW!
 
I lived in NY state for 5 years, and what bothered me the most was not the weapons laws, but the "you cannot do this" laws. You could not swim in the pool with no lifeguard, could not dare leave the trail in a state park, could not sit on the rocks, drink beer in a park, swim in the rivers, fish off the bridge, go outside the borders of the lifeguards, whatever. Then I moved to AZ and discovered freedom. Felt like that whole state belonged to me, within reason and using common sense I could go shoot where I wanted, hunt coyotes almost anywhere, camp anywhere, go offroading anywhere, and almost never even see any other people unless I brought them along. I loved AZ. Too bad "Indian Express" fired all their IT people and either outsourced it to India, or brought in Indian contractors. Freedom is not much fun without a job to pay for it. May the bastards rot in hell.
 
Grant48

No, he's not kidding. I borrowed a post of mine from another thread:

ProgunninTN- Batons are illegal just to own, along with;
Slingshots
Blackjacks
Brass knuckles
Numchucks
Pepper Spray/Mace
Tasers
Knives with > 3" blades (illegal to carry)

They require permits for;
Airguns (air pistols require handgun permit)
Muzzle loaders
Crossbows

Now, if only they could find a way to make baseball bats illegal. I'm sure Lautenburg is working on it.

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I see that you live in Texas, a real state. I can understand your disbelief.
 
Someone please explain to me why the people that live under these totalitarian regimes haven't taken up arms and stormed their state capitals.:fire: :cuss:
 
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