Posted on 04/14/2022 4:26:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Is the new Biden war on “ghost guns” paving the way to regulating everything that could be used to cause injuries or death?
President Biden’s “Ghost Gun” and “necessary executive action” announcement made great headlines and tugged at the heartstrings, but I’m not sure if it will help reduce crime or increase his poll numbers.
Using definition-by-consensus, ghost guns are described as unserialized, unregistered, untraceable, unnumbered, unfinished parts (or components) which can be milled, machined (or printed on a 3-D printer), and then assembled into a firearm or chopsticks. In fact, the vague floating abstraction of a ghost gun implies other deadly weapons…not just firearms. If the President is sincere in his efforts to rid America (primarily conservatives) of their deadly weapons, there are easier, more convenient starting points.
Put another way, given Biden’s “safety-first” approach, stretching those regulations a little further might get everyone hyperventilating about the unrecognized hazards of other unregistered potential weapons.
Anyone familiar with construction, carpentry, or the building trades knows the lethal potential of nail guns, whether they are powered with compressed air, electricity, or .22 caliber ammunition. Yes, you can purchase off-the-shelf powder charges for most “fasteners” at all the Big Boxes and hardware stores. Just google “…powder-actuated loads, pins, concrete/steel nails….”
For less than $100, any construction worker or weekend warrior can purchase a “tool” closely resembling a gun, and in the same store buy a can of black spray paint (often behind a locked cage) that can turn the innocuous nailing device into a Construction Assault Weapon (CAW).
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Those darned hammer bans.
Good Idea. Nail guns will not leave ballistic reports and they are silent also.
Do I have 10 penny or 16 penny nails in this gun?
Perhaps they should limit the number of nails in each cartridge to 6 nails instead of 100 nails. If you are using 100 nails at a session, you are in too big of a hurry. Slow down, what is the difference if that house takes 6 months instead of three? //sarc//
Libhole at the office was arguing that gun manufacturers should be liable for all injuries / deaths from their products. I asked her if Apple should be liable if I bashed her head-in with my laptop?
her only answer was a dumb look on her face….
I’m working on a ghost slingshot. Keep it between us.
The last time I was trimming a tree I made several ghost spears.
Behold: the Teflon-coated Hollowpoint 1-penny Nail From Hell...
(Graphic Artists get on it, please.)
“... knows the lethal potential of nail guns”
I worked briefly in construction and used a nail gun. If you pointed my gun into the air the nail would go about three feet.
Anyone remember the zip gun?
It’s an older term for “ghost gun”. Here’s what wikipedia says:
“Improvised firearms (sometimes called zip guns, pipe guns or slam guns) are firearms manufactured other than by a firearms manufacturer or a gunsmith”
New times, new terminology.
The definition “slipped” to also include any firearm that has a defaced serial number. So when someone steals a legal firearm and scratches the serial number it is now included as a “Ghost Gun”.
I am sure the thieves that steal guns will be returning them to the rightful owners so they don’t have to make them into ghost guns. Hey, maybe they could make murdering people illegal. Thanks for that update to what the “genuses” in DC are doing.
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