Sling shot with wrist brace is illegal

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I remember when I was about ten back in '71 my father bought me one of those (Somehow, I managed to avoid killing anyone with it. Imagine that.). One piece of aluminum, with a padded wrist brace. Surgical tubing for the elastic part. Wish I still had it. It wasn't the folding kind they have today. That thing was made to last forever. Just needed new tubing from time to time. I got real good with it too. Maybe I'll see if I can find one like that again.
 
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"Someone please explain to me why the people that live under these totalitarian regimes haven't taken up arms and stormed their state capitals".

Arms? I didn't go into the rest of the incredibly lame
gun laws we have here. I'll give you just one example.

We have a law on the books that mandates smart guns. As soon as the first smart gun is available to the public, all other types of handgun will be illegal for sale in the Peoples' Republic. I kid you not. They are hoping that this takes care of the remaining gun shops that have not gone under yet.

People used to kick Mass. around for having ridiculous gun laws, but there is a new champion. I have not yet figured out why the PRNJ wants everyone to be totally defenseless.

Once, while I was in the process of moving, I was stopped for speeding. Along with a bunch of other junk I had in the car, I had an axe handle, which I used to put in the track of a sliding glass patio door, as a security measure. The officer confiscated it. It wasn't even one of those evil, black, assault-type, machine-axe handles, just a plain Ace Hardware axe handle.

This is NJ. "Come See For Yourself". :barf:
 
Mike, you should have carried a baseball bat in your car instead. Just as long as there's a mitt and a ball with it, you're good to go. What are they going to say, you can't meet some friends in the park for some practice?
 
A couple of wrist rockets attached to the sidewalls of ye olde tactical wheel barrow along with the .22lr in front. I'd love to see that being pushed through the streets of downtown Boston. Oh, My!

:D
 
Some day in the not-too-far-distant future we will see American troops going into combat with rubber suction cups on their arrows, and the Platoon Nannies following along behind saying, "You're going to put someone's eye out with those things! You're going to put someone's eye out with those things!"
 
The reason why the "people" have not stormed their state capitals is because the people largely support those stupid laws.

Notice that 9 out of 10 times we get mad at federal legislation, it is those of us from freer states mad at legislators trying to impose their tyranny on us from a far off less free state.

There are good reasons for this.

Freedom as many of us think of it is largely regional. While some New Yorkers, and Massachusetts' citizens believe in freedom, most (the vast majority there) do not.
 
Wrist Rocket

The ones with the oversized, hi-cap pockets pose the real danger, allowing the terrorist to spray BBs and ball bearings all over the landscape. Nosir!
You can't run away from an Assault Wrist Rocket! They should be in the hands of the police and military only. I'm serious folks. You can't use'em for duck huntin' and you have no business with these frightening weapons.

Just imagine if every boy from age 8-13 had one in his possession! I say we march on Washington and demand that Congress do somethin' about this threat! The time to act is NOW!
 
Honest people have no need for slingshots with wrist braces. These tools of destruction have features which serve no sporting purpose. Wrist braces allow for shooting from the hip in rapid fire. Folding wrist braces make the weapon too easily concealable for criminals. High capacity bearing pouches allow for prolonged fire into crowds of helpless people. Steel ball bearings could pierce a police officers body armor, or take down a plane in the hands of a terrorist.

:rolleyes: I'm pretty sure Ted Kennedy said all that once.

Now if I can only figure out a way to attach a flash hider, bayonet lug, and laser sight.
 
"ANY slingshot is a felony in NJ. Even a forked stick w/ a rubber band."

To me, this is an absolute outrage, a felony for a child's toy?

In all seriousness, has there been a substantial migration by common sense people out of states like NJ that are imposing these restrictions?

That statement of fact made me angry. Very angry.
 
I am gonna work on a way to introduce a spiral into the slingshots projectile. I can't call it rifling, since there is no barrel, but at least when the .gov clamps down we will have much more accurate and further firing slingshots for the David and Goliath battle of the modern age. I figure a slingshot would be more easy to make with house hold items than a rifle anyways. ;) I guess firewood is next on the ban list...followed by the elastic band in your whitey tighties.
 
What if you mount the sling shot on a stock and make a "cross-shot". Then it wouldn't be concealable. No pistol grip or bayonet lug though.
 
There is a fairly decent book named Deathwatch (by Robb White) in which the main character makes good use of a sling-shot. Doubt anyone on here has read it but it gives a very graphic description of what someone can do to another person with one.
 
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>it give a very graphic description of what someone can do to another person with one.<
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A guy I used to work with told me that one of his boys shot the other one (Ages 13 and 15)in the calf of the leg with a 00 Buckshot pellet from across their bedroom. It buried up deep enough that they could just see it, but couldn't dig it out and had to take him to the ER. When he got home, he proceeded to pound his disarmed brother profusely about the head and shoulders...which was pretty much why he got shot in the first place. :D
 
Doubt anyone on here has read it but it give a very graphic description of what someone can do to another person with one.
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I can give a very graphic description of what someone can do to a dog that bark-bark-barks all the time.:p

I like double ought buckshot in these, myself.
 
I used to (may still, somewhere) have a variation on that called a "pocket rocket", a folding one. It came with a very good tutorial manual on how to use the slingshot, the gist of it being that one should not pull back and hold, then release, but come up with it pull and release in one motion. That was good advice and I learned to put half the balls into 4" at 30 feet. Also had ads for shrapnel, that is, folded paper boxes with BBs in them which would unfold downrange.
 
I can't say with any legal certainty.

But I'll assume they are still legal in KS and MO since I've seen them for sale at wally world.

Reminds me I need to buy another replacement sling for mine :)
 
I'm not supprised about anything in New jersey. It might as well be another country.
 
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