Posted on 02/07/2009 4:17:07 PM PST by Parody
Prices are sky high now. That thing runs for $25,000 today.
I would invest in items that are extremely hard to trace, have exceptional characteristics such as needed by resistance fighters. Thermite sticks comes to mind first.
Another good weapon that can be used to disrupt many things is the small super magnets, placed strategically can erase files, disrupt scanners and create mayhem around sensitive electronic devices.
One cannot haul a 155mm howitzer around, be able to use it and fade away, real weapons for resistance fighters are items that are commonplace, such as steel wool and aluminum powder or shavings.
I would not suggest weapons that put you in one place for any length of time and that includes flamethrowers, unless you feel like being a suicide bomber.
I could visualize a hydro seeder, pest control truck, septic tank truck or anything on the road that has a commonplace tank and having the remote controlled nozzle and a jellied fuel mix, O2 tank, pump, igniter for an urban assault vehicle.
Let them talk about taking guns away, they may succeed at that, if they do America is going to go Mad Max big time.
Hey! I just looked up trebuchet to post some info on them and you beat me to it!
Saw one in use on Modern Marvels:Bullseye edition last week.
From History Channel website : The French army used the trebuchet to batter enemy fortifications. The trebuchet could hurl 300 pound rocks up to 300 yards. Historians speculate that the trebuchet was so powerful it made medieval castles and fortifications obsolete.
Trebuchets are still legal right?
Well I’m all for keeping these things legal. For me, the problem is just that the cost of most of these things is so prohibitive.
If you own a $2,000 Tommy gun, more power to you. If you own one of those $400,000 mini-guns mentioned in the article, more power to you, and may I camp out on that private island of yours when you’re not using it?
There’s always one idiot who finds out about something (things some of us have known about for a long time) who goes telling all of his friends about how cool it is. And they tell their friends and so on and so forth...
Next thing you know, it’s illegal and there’s one loud mouthed douche to blame. Potato cannons and pop bottle hydrogen bombs comes to mind
Don’t be that douche, mr evans. Opps, too late.
Potato cannons are illegal??
A can of WD40 with the little tube attached and a lighter, is an awesome combination.
Sure! Of course you’ll need a plot of land out in the country big enough to hold your trebuchet, and don’t go hurling any of those 300 pound rocks on your neighbor’s lawn or he’ll sue. Actual fortifications at which to fling those rocks are sadly in short supply right now, but as long as you’re not violating any zoning laws, there are probably no laws against building and owning your very own trebuchet.
Moreover, if you’re not flinging rocks into his yard, your neighbor may just set up a tourist shop right next door to you and get rich selling people hats and T-shirts with pictures of your trebuchet-blessed property on them. Don’t forget to ask him for royalties.
Think I saw them on History Channel. Mine isn’t very big. It’l throw a 2lb pumpkin about 300ft. I’m thinking about building a bigger one.
That’s the impression I was under.
It could be a local ordinance though.
There was one very irritable deputy asking after one last time “a friend” had his out shooting.
The deputy didn’t find it thought...
My son made one for school. It’s huge and he still has it. Works great with 2L pop bottles and such.
Apparently the spud gun is illegal in ‘some’ places.
http://www.spudfiles.com/spud_wiki/index.php?title=Legal_issues
Show us a picture.
actually, #6 is illegal in most states now.
My uncle had a bronze yachting cannon that he kept under the front stairs. I used to get a real kick out of it when I was a boy.
The guys on Bullseye were firing watermelons and bowling balls at a target. They were having a blast. Bunch of old guys with a really big toy. Fun stuff.
20 acres should be enough. Oh man, the husband would have me committed if I even joked about building a trebuchet. I’d probably hurt myself. I’ll stick to guns.
Cool! Woe be unto your neighbors down the block . . .
Black Powder(not related to Bozo)is also legal in most states if not all. Thank GOD for that and may it always be so.
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