BlazeOrangeDeer comments on Minor, perspective changing facts - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 April 2013 07:01PM

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Comment author: Stabilizer 23 April 2013 01:41:14AM *  6 points [-]

Holy shit. You're not even kidding! Check out the definition here. Under the definition, it says that it includes (among other things) anything that is a 'destructive device' as defined here which in turn includes,

any type of weapon...by whatever name known which will, or which may be readily converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other propellant, and which has any barrel with a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter...

This is so funny, it's not even funny.

Note: the above links say it's a U.S. Code prelim (i.e. some revisions might happen). But I found similar things here.

Comment author: BlazeOrangeDeer 23 April 2013 04:22:53AM 1 point [-]

Like a cannon from a civil war reenactment?

Comment author: Kindly 23 April 2013 11:41:48AM 2 points [-]

That is one of the deliberately excluded cases.