So flamethrowers are legal

[user3214]

Weird I didn’t know flamethrowers were legal – this is considered a weapon right. Here is the source http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal.html

 

[Eightball]

I think they might be considered an "agrarian tool." Not too certain of it, though.

 

[makarovnik]

Used to kill unwanted wild brush and vegetation.

 

[Otis]

Forget the flamethrower. I want the minigun

 

[QuietEarp]

I have seen a lot of fire art in my years. The flame throwers I have seen are beautiful works of physics, mechanics, chemistry, and art. The owners of flame throwers are a unique bunch. They are quite aware of the danger of their devices and generally very safe. Legal trouble does often find them however. I am sure the owners of most home made flame throwers do not think of them as a weapon but do treat them as such with safety precautions. There is a little festival here in Nevada called Burningman which has some of the greatest fire art in the world.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Does anybody know who makes a new production flamethrower?

Or military replicas?

 

[psyopspec]

Since I was a kid I've always wanted one for clearing snow off the driveway. Or at least I did, until I read about a guy who burned the house down in the process.

 

[Gunnerpalace]

2 gems

That pesky 1st Amendment makes it pretty difficult for the government to ban a book just because it has instructions for baking Pyrex explosives and crippling the drive system of an M1 Abrams.

So, until Ted Turner finally snaps, mounts a GE Minigun on his golden H2 and guns down a muffin kiosk, you can expect the 11 or so miniguns on the market to remain legal.

 

[heron]

Apparently, some of the best things in life can be bought online without even a background check . . .

 

[expvideo]

This whole report had me rolling. I'm avoiding reading the comments, since I would rather laugh than pull my hair out.

 

[Kind of Blued]

I'm avoiding reading the comments, since I would rather laugh than pull my hair out.

I expected lots of "internet speak" (or whatever they call "spelling things incorrectly" these days), and a general display of ignorance.

Some decent "keyboardmanship", but still plenty of idiocy.

 

[Grey_Mana]

http://mirror.linnwood.org/flamethrower/


http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Free-Homemade-FLAMETHROWER/

 

[erict]

I had a propane torch that threw flames out about 5'. We used it for rubberoid roofing on flat roofs of businesses and apartments. I'll bet with a larger orifice and a modified check valve you could get it to do a whole lot more.

 

[JImbothefiveth]

You'd really have to obey the safety rules, or you risk burning down your house. rule #2: never point at anything that could spread the fire to something you don't want destroyed. (If you shoot this in your backyard, your whole house will be destroyed.)

 

[eye5600]

While in the army, in the interest of getting rid of a thicket of bamboo, I spend a day using a pump sprayer to spray kerosene (probably jet fuel) onto a fire.

 

[chuckusaret]

Dragon's Breath

I have fired the Dragon's Breath, that some people call the flame thrower round, it is awsome and but very dangerous. Bought mine at a gun show for $5.95 each but they are offered on the net.

 

[CYANIDEGENOCIDE]

http://mirror.linnwood.org/flamethrower/

I love how there is a for sale sign on the house in one of the pictures. I think I would consider moving too if I saw a teenager using a flamethrower in the middle of the street

 

[expvideo]

Weird I didn’t know flamethrowers were legal – this is considered a weapon right.

Actually it is maintenance equipment for burning shrubs and what not. It was used for clearing bunkers in WWII, but in reality it is not really a weapon. Sure it could be used as one, but so could most maintenance equipment. I mean a chainsaw on a pole (used for trimming tree branches) could easily be used as a weapon, and if they used those to clear bunkers in WWII we might see them that way too.

I guess having seen them used in WWII movies, it also strikes me as odd to see them as regular equipment, but hey. It is what it is. Banning or regulating them because they could be used as a weapon would be pretty silly, because there are equally "dangerous weapons" in any farm shed.

 

[Big Matt]

Nice! That could really motivate the youth of today to enter the lumber/logging industry...

 

[Gun Slinger]

I had a propane torch that threw flames out about 5'. We used it for rubberoid roofing on flat roofs of businesses and apartments. I'll bet with a larger orifice and a modified check valve you could get it to do a whole lot more.

He said "orifice".

 

[Davionmaximus]

Now I'm gonna need a bigger gun safe...

 

[SsevenN]

First of all, because a gun with an unrifled barrel is only accurate to a few inches. Since most professionally manufactured firearms are legal in the USA, banning homemade ones doesn't make much sense. Neither China, the gun-control capital of the world, nor Russia have been able to stop their dissident populations from building their own firearms. Since you can literally build a gun out of the contents of a trash bin, any laws made to stop self-made firearms would be almost unenforceable.

The Antis would be suprised!

 

[Kind of Blued]

From the same excerpt. This is under "Why is this legal?"

Since most professionally manufactured firearms are legal in the USA, banning homemade ones doesn't make much sense...
Since you can literally build a gun out of the contents of a trash bin, any laws made to stop self-made firearms would be almost unenforceable.

Imagine that! "It wouldn't make sense..."

Get a clue, dude. History shows that politicians don't need logic or results when "good intentions" can replace them.

 

[mljdeckard]

DANG IT!! Psyop stole my joke!!

"I live in Massachusetts, but I haven't shoveled the snow out of my driveway since I bought the flamethrower." -Steven Wright