Why do we need destructive devices?

[cordex]

Because half an inch is a silly arbitrary limit for bore size.
Because I like safely playing with things that go boom. Big boom is even better.
Because I don't care whether something has a "sporting purpose" or not.
Because your daddy's shotgun isn't far from being called a destructive device.
Because fireworks are neat but detcord is neater.

Because need doesn't figure into it.

 

[MicroBalrog]

However, here's a point to consider: yes, most existing brands of DD aren't fit for civilian use - but if they were legal, then consumer demand would quickly create those that were.

 

[Pinned&Recessed]

10 points to the first one who gets the bloop reference.

Are you perhaps referring to the M-79 Grenade Launcher?

I've also heard it called a "Pa-Toonk"er

Could be a M203 as well.

 

[JeFF D]

-Pinned&recessed

"If I ever wanted a .600 Nitro Express double for hunting in Africa? Nope, DD according to the .gov. DANGEROUS for me to own."

Not true. Some calibers over .50 are an exception to the rule because they are said to have a "sporting purpose" and .600NE is one of them.

 

[Pinned&Recessed]

Not true. Some calibers over .50 are an exception to the rule because they are said to have a "sporting purpose" and .600NE is one of them.

Do you know where I could find a list of them? Would it be on the ATF website?

 

[Henry Bowman]

The police (law enforcement) and government need them because ______________.

I need them because ______________.

Whatever you put in the first blank, you can put in the second.

 

[JShirley]

Prague, 1968.
Waco, 1993.

 

[goon]

Well, DD's are like guns.
You don't really need them most of the time, but when you need them, you NEED THEM.
So to answer your question, I don't need them, yet.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

See Warsaw, 1943.

 

[rdcinmn]

Maybe you should have titled this post why do you and/or I need- a computer, a car, a gun, wake up it's called a free country!

 

[Traveler]

To me it's not a question of need, but want. The problem is always the fact that when want turns to need it's too late.

Personally I find myself wanting an armored vehicle complete with weaponry. I've spent a large portion of my life fixing that kind of stuff, and wouldn't mind doing it for a hobby.