My experience watching Hollywood films tells me flamethrowers are a more effective tool at killing/maiming large groups of people than traditional firearms, so

My experience watching Hollywood films tells me flamethrowers are a more effective tool at killing/maiming large groups of people than traditional firearms, so I expected them to be outlawed for the same reason you can't buy hand grenades or rocket launchers at Walmart. Of course, now that I know they are legal I have decent reason to believe that Hollywood's propensity for exaggeration didn't end with their use of flame throwers.