Comments on: Two sticks and a chain are illegal in NY?

By: ChrisTheEngineer

ChrisTheEngineer — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:41:24 +0000

Also illegal in Washington State. But OK in Idaho.

By: nk

nk — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:25:04 +0000

Thank you, Uncle. “Weapon” is a relative term. The most beautiful gun ever made, in my opinion*, was the 1851 Colt Navy, but I realize that its success was because it was used against Indians with lances, bows and trade muskets, and white men with similar coal-burners. Would I carry it as a defensive arm, today? No.

*Today anyway. I reserve the right to “alteration find”.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:59:04 +0000

nk, not sure. must have triggered a spam word.

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:11:25 +0000

Nunchakos are considered “prohibited items” here in Germany too and are strictly banned.
Guns are extremely regulated with 12 month shooting club training (at least 18 proven trainings/year) before the first gun, 2 guns per 6 month, guns only for state-approved disciplines, extended background checks, mandatory safety and law course, full registration, additional “good reason” and tougher requirements for handguns, pump-action and semi-autos and even more regulations to fill a whole book. Ammo and reloading are strictly regulated, too. No IDPA, and IPSC is also “cut down”.
And if law changes, you suddenly have “prohibited guns” which must be scrapped or sold for nearly nothing. Happened last year to owners of shorter pump-actions and handguns with centerfire<6,3mm (deemed “cop killers”).
In a country of about 80 Mio. people, we have about 600 (yes, six hundred) carry licenses, strictly regulated and limited too.
Everything, of course, for “the greater good” and “security”… Brady Paradise over here

Parts that sound familiar? I wish we had a 2A, too. Keep good care of yours. Freedom is hardly gained, but easily lost.

Dante

By: nk

nk — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:17:22 +0000

And why am I in moderation?

By: nk

nk — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:16:15 +0000

I agree with Mikee #4 with one reservation. I got my nunchakus when I was seventeen or so, after seeing Bruce Lee playing with them in “Enter the Dragon” and my impression is that they are not weapons — they are dangerous (to their user) toys. I also have a small, short-handled, bushbaby with an axe-blade opposite the hook bill that my mother-in-law shipped to me from Europe. Now that is a weapon. But you have to take care on the back stroke.

By: Joe Huffman

Joe Huffman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:33:23 +0000

Once we get far enough along with the projectile, edged, and blunt weapons being protected by the 2A I want to start in on explosives. The ATF paperwork and license fees are annoying. The government shouldn’t be able to require the licensing of a right.

And that doesn’t even address the intrastate only aspect of my explosives manufacture and “distribution”.

By: Mikee

Mikee — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:42:41 +0000

Common tools were the weapons of choice for the otherwise disarmed peasants in feudal societies, and a rice flail works just fine when applied to rice or to another person’s head. Currently, it seems that no policeman would possibly mind a threee foot length of rebar or a long-handled shovel kept in my pickup truck bed, and I can walk down any street in my town with an aluminum T-ball bat in my hands. My personal favorite farming weapon is a hook-billed ditch weeder that looks more like a halberd than anything else. “Swingblade” got his nickname for a reason, ernnn-hmmmmmm.

By: ka

ka — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:06:00 +0000

Anything that could make an effective weapon is illegal. That is why the police tell you to use your car keys to fend off an attacker.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:29:04 +0000

They are illegal here in the Peoples Republic of MA. . .

By: _Jon

_Jon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:15:32 +0000

I have some that are connected by a piece of wire (thick cable). No chains involved.

If you look at it kinda funny, it also resembles two cans and a string….