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The legality of owning a flamethrower by state (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assume it’s because it’s hard to come up with a legal definition for flamethrower that doesn’t exclude things like blow torches, and there aren’t a lot of incidents involving flamethrowers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The difference isn't really that complicated; a flamethrower sprays flaming liquid, a blowtorch sprays flaming gas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but I can set up my oxy acetylene rig to throw huge beams of fire. To a layman, it’ll look like a flame thrower.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And a layman would be wrong

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Hardly matters when laws are largely enforced due to reports from the republic.

What laymen understand to be true is effectively true when it comes to reporting and the subsequent investigation.

I don’t want to be hassled by the cops because I’m cutting stuff in my garage and a nosy neighbor happens to look in when I’m lighting a torch.