OT: You guys will get a kick out of this

Jason_W · Post by **Jason_W** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:52 pm

Maybe not so much the UK forumites.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770

To sum it up, it's on a 3000 pound (as in UK currency, not mass) novelty gun that fires a 2.34 mm projectile at 399 feet per second.

From the article: "it could still prove fatal and in the eyes of the law was as dangerous as a machine gun"

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:19 pm

Well that's one handgun I don't mind being banned from owning. Â£3,000 for something with a tenth of the power of an airgun!

But it does look well made, just don't know why anyone would want one!

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:03 pm

Well that's certainly the answer to a question nobody ever asked.

TxHunter · Post by **TxHunter** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:13 pm

You could put your eye with that !!!

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:15 pm

Dear Jason, if it contains the usual british stuff that generally prevails about firearms I ain't gonner look. I'm just not in the mood.
Thanks all the same.
Nath.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:21 pm

Special Agent William McMahon said the gun was so small it could pass for a key fob, and warned it made the perfect stealth weapon for serious criminals.

The idiocy of some people knows no bounds.

Jason_W · Post by **Jason_W** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:26 pm

AmBraCol wrote:
Special Agent William McMahon said the gun was so small it could pass for a key fob, and warned it made the perfect stealth weapon for serious criminals.

The idiocy of some people knows no bounds.

I can just imagine the conversation between criminals:

"Ok, our heist is all planned, all we need now are the guns."

"I can take care of that, I just need a few grand and 24 hours and I can get a gun that might act as a minor skin irritant."

"Sounds good, lets meet back here tomorrow."

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:23 pm

Jason and Ambracol are starting to understand the difficulties faced by GK and myself everyday

Nath.

Post by **AmBraCol** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:15 pm

Nath wrote:Jason and Ambracol are starting to understand the difficulties faced by GK and myself everyday
Nath.

Yep. I've got it a BIT better, at least I've got a sixgun and a permit to carry it (renewable every three years - or not, as their whim may be) But idiocy knows no bounds. Recently they've ruled that all permits are suspended every weekend - from Friday at 6:00 p.m. to Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. - as if criminals, thugs and terrorists kept bankers hours or something. Since I'm not a national, there's not much I can do other than gripe, complain, mumble, mutter and grouse - to myself. If I were a citizen here (and had the same mentality I do now) then I'd see if there was some way to sue the powers that be for reckless endangerment or some such. It may not go anywhere, but who knows? Anyway, my patience with idiots is regularly tested. Like I said, at least they let me "own" and carry - according to their whim.

You should have seen the song and dance I got when I brought in a pellet rifle and muzzle loader (both exempt from restrictions here) last month.

It took some fast talk and a fax from the shooting club, but now my stable's a bit fuller...

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:26 am

AmBraCol wrote: The idiocy of some people knows no bounds.

To paraphrase Einstein, "there are two things that are boundless: the universe, and man's capacity for stupidity!".