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Azhais posted:So it's perfectly legit to wander around with a Colt-Browning M1895 without a license? I should have noted that there's a whole bunch of exceptions to the "Any gun manufactured before 1900" rule quote:A firearm is exempt from regulation if it was manufactured before 1900 and meets the following criteria:
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Canada has similar laws; basically if it's a dewat firearm it's in the prohibited category, airsoft got a pass with a bunch of restrictions, paintball is generally tolerated and air guns have speed & energy restrictions that pretty much renders them useless for hunting. If you commit a crime with any of the above, you're charged with full firearm sentencing multipliers and you will be in trouble just for showing up in public with any of them without a valid reason.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:14
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Seems to have worked pretty well for the aussies, but lets not have this discussion here.
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surebet posted:Canada has similar laws; basically if it's a dewat firearm it's in the prohibited category, airsoft got a pass with a bunch of restrictions, paintball is generally tolerated and air guns have speed & energy restrictions that pretty much renders them useless for hunting. Though you can also own things like anti-tank guns loaded with HE with no restriction (explosive ammo is legal as long as it's above 15mm in caliber), and you can get around magazine restrictions by buying a semi-auto version of a period machine gun like an MG 42 and feeding it with a belt. You can also buy 10-round pistol magazines and load them into rifles that take the same mags, even though rifles are supposed to have a 5-round capacity limit. Or buy magazines for .50 Beowulf AR-15s and load them with an illegal amount of 5.56mm. So you can own a semi-auto rifle with a 100 round capacity as long as it's belt-fed, or you can own a 20mm anti-tank rifle with explosive ammo, but goddammit you better not have a 15-round magazine in your Beretta!
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chitoryu12 posted:So you can own a semi-auto rifle with a 100 round capacity as long as it's belt-fed, or you can own a 20mm anti-tank rifle with explosive ammo, but goddammit you better not have a 15-round magazine in your Beretta! To be fair, you're a lot more likely to do a crime with the Beretta than either of the other options.
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chitoryu12 posted:Though you can also own things like anti-tank guns loaded with HE with no restriction (explosive ammo is legal as long as it's above 15mm in caliber), and you can get around magazine restrictions by buying a semi-auto version of a period machine gun like an MG 42 and feeding it with a belt. You can also buy 10-round pistol magazines and load them into rifles that take the same mags, even though rifles are supposed to have a 5-round capacity limit. Or buy magazines for .50 Beowulf AR-15s and load them with an illegal amount of 5.56mm. Weird, just ban them all.
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RabbitWizard posted:It's the "You have 3 children, 12 grand-children, 20 great-grand-children and 15 great-great-grand-children"-part that makes me sad. I watched one of my grandmothers die in a retirement home while I was 5-15 years old, visiting every year to see her loosing more and more of herself. It was horrible. The irony occurs when your uncles get old and get the same treatment because they never thought their kids any different. The reporter reading off that list of her descendants felt weird, so I looked it up. Ends up she's outlived only one of her three children, but holy poo poo her granddaughter is 67 and her husband passed away before I was even born (1971). It's probably time for Flossie to fill that coffee mug full of whisky and drift off on a slab of ice.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Fake guns are apparently too scary for just anyone to own. When it comes to actually using guns for crime though fake guns are usually just as effective as real guns, as the majority of the time they're being used in a threatening/coercive manner for rape/robbery/whatever. I understand in America (or some states at least) if you hold up a store with a fake gun it can or will be legally treated as a real weapon and you'll be poo poo on by the justice system. Krispy Kareem posted:It's probably time for Flossie to fill that coffee mug full of whisky and drift off on a slab of ice. It'd be pretty unfortunate to give up after that long though, haven't you been in a situation where you want to retire something but it's lasted longer than it should and you can't bring yourself to do it?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I should have noted that there's a whole bunch of exceptions to the "Any gun manufactured before 1900" rule   edit: BWahahaha! They actually looked into how to classify this? It's a pdf. http://www.police.vic.gov.au/retrievemedia.asp?media_id=78680 Solice Kirsk has a new favorite as of 22:39 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 22:36
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Solice Kirsk posted:BWahahaha! They actually looked into how to classify this? It's a pdf. I'm pretty sure most of the Australian government hasn't actually seen a gun in real life and only has a vague notion of what a gun is in the first place.
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm pretty sure most of the Australian government hasn't actually seen a gun in real life and only has a vague notion of what a gun is in the first place. TBF, American cops are very familiar with seeing guns in real life and they often mistake other objects ( cell phones, penises, canes, etc.) for guns. And then of course, there's confusing their guns and tasers.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:15
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Was he counting how many seconds before she noticed her hair was on fire?
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Feb 25, 2016 23:18
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He is either high as gently caress or disabled but cool as hell either way.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:23
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Decrepus posted:He is either high as gently caress or disabled but cool as hell either way. Yeah I was going to say, the look on his face makes me think "special" or "high as gently caress".
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Feb 25, 2016 23:25
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Or "drunk". That is sometimes the look of a man who has had too many birthday cocktails purchased for him.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:28
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I'm mad about that hat for some reason.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:30
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I think it's just his stupid hat that makes me think he just came out of some barely successful brain surgery.
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chitoryu12 posted:Australia also has very strict rules on replicas. Paintball guns and air rifles are Category A firearms (the same as .22 rimfire non-automatic rifles and double-barrel shotguns) and require a "genuine reason" to be provided to petition for ownership. Deactivated guns are easier to get, but airsoft guns that: thanks crazy gun person for yet another crazy gun derail
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Feb 25, 2016 23:45
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Yeah, it's not worth banging on about because barely anyone in Australia gives a poo poo about gun laws as we don't have a gun culture.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:54
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RabbitWizard posted:I watched one of my grandmothers die in a retirement home while I was 5-15 years old, visiting every year to see her loosing more and more of herself.
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skander posted:What was loosing, besides her bowels? What the gently caress sort of a question is that? Seriously wtf.
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Birb Katter posted:What the gently caress sort of a question is that? Seriously wtf. Edgy humor involving a common spelling error. Probably not the best timing for it given the post was about someone's grandma dying, but you know, goons, etc.
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Karma Monkey posted:Edgy humor involving a common spelling error. Probably not the best timing for it given the post was about someone's grandma dying, but you know, goons, etc. I get the how it happened just not the why.
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Feb 26, 2016 00:51
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Birb Katter posted:I get the how it happened just not the why. [img-xkcd-wrong-on-internet]
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Birb Katter posted:I get the how it happened just not the why. Goons are edgy, man.
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Birb Katter posted:I get the how it happened just not the why. Goooooooooooooonnnnnnnssssssssss. That is always the why.
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Woman, 23, Begs To Die After Insect Bite Leaves Her Bed-Ridden For 11 Years
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I know this is the Schadenfreude thread and all, but who the hell would find pleasure in that?
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What exactly is the schadenfreude in this?
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Karanas posted:I know this is the Schadenfreude thread and all, but who the hell would find pleasure in that? Goons
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MODS!!!
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Serephina posted:I don't think this belongs here Jesus christ, man!
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http://i.imgur.com/CSfMarJ.gifv
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Lupus from an insect bite? That...doesn't seem likely.
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There's a video of someone passing out about three times on a ride like that. I can't even imagine how scary it would be to wake up after passing out and, in that first second of consciousness, when you still have no idea where you are or how you got there, to discover OH GOD you're a million miles in the air and falling to earth! Funny, though.
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Gorilla Salad posted:There's a video of someone passing out about three times on a ride like that. Pretty sure that's the same clip just cut before he wakes up again.
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