Originally posted by SueEllen
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De-Bunk-ing firearms myths
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWell, of course that's the case because honest citizens (taxpayers I might add) don't get the right to use firearms, criminals naturally love it and don't give a tulip if that's illegal.
Personally I don't want one as I know it would be taken away from me due to shooting the local tree rats."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostYou and I are allowed to get certain guns if we get a license.
These ain't guns, I certainly won't be applying for license to have those - might have as well banned them too.
Proper firearms should include regular training, 3rd party insurance, not everyone should be licensed for concealed carrying of guns, majority would probably be ok with having a home gun as it's more straightforward.Comment
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I made my own when I was about 16. Some gas pipe, potassium chlorate and sugar mix fired by a piece of nichrome wire from an old steam iron attached to a battery. Maybe I'll look at that again but I think they mix something with the chlorate these days. As the wire often got damaged the firing rate was a bit dismal.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Ee. You could be right, sodium not potassium. Whatever it was they sold in garden shops.
I bet you added meths to the mix to stop it exploding while you ground it too. What did you use for bullets? I had some big ceramic insulators that I nicked from dad's junkbox.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Originally posted by AtW View PostMyth 1: with legal firearms ownership you will still have to put your pants down on request of a thug
Those double yellow lines are all wrong ! The do not have a termination bar, that means you could park there and get away with it.
Thats the type of thing that gives a country a bad reputation
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostHow come noone has mentioned the obvious ?
Those double yellow lines are all wrong ! The do not have a termination bar, that means you could park there and get away with it.
Shhh. Those are private parking zones for councillors and people in the know.
If they weren't intentional, that bint on Dragon's Den would have got funding to raise awareness of these 'mistakes'. I'm surprised the BBC didn't cut that piece altogether.
Can't have the public using these zones too.Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
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Apparently they put stuff in chlorate these days to stop it going popbloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostI heard that. Ridiculous, although there must be alternatives. One hears about explosives being made with readily available household items like flour. The authorities should publish false instructions on the net so suicide bombers spend ages making their bombs and then find they are trying to detonate a tasty fudge cake.
We tended to stick to more mechanical forms of mayhem. Our best effort was a Ballista built from old lorry springs and railway sleepers. We used it to fire road nails through a brick wall"Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghostBig capacitors.
Apparently they put stuff in chlorate these days to stop it going pop.
I know this because in the 80's I used to make fireworks out of Sodium Chlorate (garden centre weedkiller) and icing sugar. The mix would burn with a bright orange flame without exploding (due in part to the fire depressant).
I did consider putting it into a metal tube to make a gun or bomb, but decided against it as insanely dangerous.Comment
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