Posted on 06/04/2006 3:31:27 AM PDT by Stoat
Especially since the bullet would be unlikely to exit the other end.
What an interesting link. In high school, my friends and I, made tennis ball cannons from Coke cans, duct tape and lighter fluid. Great fun.
When the projectile is supersonic, silencer merely slows the gas, the bullet still makes a very loud crack due to its sonic boom.
If he had shot her, would the state "fry" him?
In Medieval times, he'd be boiled in oil.
bump for more chuckles later...I hope this thread gets a thousand replies, heh heh.
So, if I'm at the gun range and I set a spud at the 50 yard line and shoot it, I'm OK? But, if I shoot it at the end of my barrel, I go to jail for using a silencer?
Yep, I've heard of it also. Had a section on it in the "Anarchist Cookbook" about 25 years ago.
"Would you like fries with that... scum -- ?!?"
I had no idea it wasn't true. And if I ever found myself in the situation of needing a silencer, I promise I would've tried to find the fattest potato in the house for it.
Seems like those round white potatoes would do better than Idaho bakers, because the latter are kind of mealy. Unfortunately, in my house, all I would have on hand would be small red creamer potatoes or Yukon Gold fingerlings and some of those Texas A&M purple fingerlings.
They wouldn't silence anything ... well, maybe one of those little tiny miniature revolver cap guns on a keychain. Guess I have to go buy a silencer. Do the Sopranos have a store?
Those were two different stories. The subject of the main story evidently never pulled the trigger on the potato-silenced gun, but instead beat a woman with something else.
The 2nd story is told about a man who did try to use a potato to silence his gun, which he did shoot, and which potato ended up being found underneath the victim who was shot.
It did not say in what condition the potato was found. Seems like it would have been blown to smithereens, but maybe that's the gratuitous violence we're not supposed to reference.
What the heck is that thing? It looks like a cap pistol!
Of course it is an airgun. We have all seen the news images of the revolver with the suppressor, though. The only image I could find was from the UK. Great Britain has outlawed handguns dontcha know.
...and about those Tater Tots up above, it's for the chillrunds, you know.
This story has been reported by all of Miamis' common "taters".
DO You know how to make an Irish seven course meal?
Airgun moderators are legal in Britian.
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