[HN Gopher] Backyard Ballistics
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Backyard Ballistics
Author : thetopher
Score : 25 points
Date : 2022-12-02 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| walrus01 wrote:
| I would recommend reading up on what the ATF considers a
| "destructive device" or "any other weapon" before home building
| any cannons or similar things.
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| https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=atf+defin...
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| An ignorant but technically motivated person can also
| "accidentally" build an NFA form 1 or form 4 firearm by making a
| short barrelled rifle without the appropriate tax stamp, just by
| combining pieces together. Or by doing something like putting a
| vertical foregrip on something that is legally a pistol. Or by
| making a home-made silencer. And so on.
| nop_slide wrote:
| I wonder if they make silencers for wet blankets :p jk
| shortstuffsushi wrote:
| https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guides-importation-ver...
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| > Any type of weapon by whatever name known which will, or
| which may readily be converted to expel a projectile, by the
| action of an explosive or other propellant, the barrel or
| barrels of which have a bore greater than one-half inch in
| diameter.
|
| Hmm, guess that would technically cover potato canons? Though
| the exemptions include
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| > a device which is neither designed nor redesigned for use as
| a weapon
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| :shrug:
| cjsawyer wrote:
| This was one of my favorite books growing up
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