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Your farcical take is predicated on an interpretation of the above paragraph in which the bill claims anything from which a projectile may be expelled is a fire

by dcrazy 1y ago

Your farcical take is predicated on an interpretation of the above paragraph in which the bill claims anything from which a projectile may be expelled is a firearm barrel. That is clearly not what the bill says, nor can it even be tortuously misconstrued as such.

mothballed 1y ago
A firearm barrel includes any forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body, or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacture where it may readily be completed, assembled, or converted to be used as a firearm barrel “firearm barrel” means the tube, usually metal and cylindrical, through which a projectile or shot charge is fired It's not farcical. A PVC pipe is an extrusion that is "readily converted" into a tube that fires a projectile. It's clear as day. Have you never seen someone fire a "potato" gun and use PVC as a barrel? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tS2jKYbzsnA https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tS2jKYbzsnA
doctorpangloss 1y ago
I am sympathetic to the guy’s crank interpretation, because that’s exactly how lawsuits against development that drag on for ages work.
- mothballed 1y ago
  It's also the way prosecutors constantly charge people with other laws. They can drag in a potato cannon, maybe light it with some black powder if compressed air doesn't "count", and show that the PVC pipe readily expelled the projectile and thus the pipe by itself is a "firearm barrel" if it can readily be placed into such a potato gun. It would be no problem to prosecute someone for selling the PVC pipe to a plumber and 100% meet the letter of the law. I don't see that as farcical but rather a straightforward application of the law. Maybe you find the law farcical/cranky but my interpretation isn't.
- epistasis 1y ago
  That's a bug of the judicial system's speed rather than the interpretation of law. A groundless lawsuit still needs to be heard through a glacial system before the result can be determined. When time is money, such delays are takings from the applicant, and work like mafia protection money.

by dcrazy 1y ago

mothballed 1y ago

A firearm barrel includes any forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body, or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacture where it may readily be completed, assembled, or converted to be used as a firearm barrel “firearm barrel” means the tube, usually metal and cylindrical, through which a projectile or shot charge is fired It's not farcical. A PVC pipe is an extrusion that is "readily converted" into a tube that fires a projectile. It's clear as day. Have you never seen someone fire a "potato" gun and use PVC as a barrel? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tS2jKYbzsnA https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tS2jKYbzsnA

doctorpangloss 1y ago

I am sympathetic to the guy’s crank interpretation, because that’s exactly how lawsuits against development that drag on for ages work.

mothballed 1y ago
It's also the way prosecutors constantly charge people with other laws. They can drag in a potato cannon, maybe light it with some black powder if compressed air doesn't "count", and show that the PVC pipe readily expelled the projectile and thus the pipe by itself is a "firearm barrel" if it can readily be placed into such a potato gun. It would be no problem to prosecute someone for selling the PVC pipe to a plumber and 100% meet the letter of the law. I don't see that as farcical but rather a straightforward application of the law. Maybe you find the law farcical/cranky but my interpretation isn't.
epistasis 1y ago
That's a bug of the judicial system's speed rather than the interpretation of law. A groundless lawsuit still needs to be heard through a glacial system before the result can be determined. When time is money, such delays are takings from the applicant, and work like mafia protection money.