• ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]
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      3 months ago

      To be fair it’s weird in the USA where you might have states were open or concealed carry is completely legal but things like swords or knuckle-dusters are a crime to carry in public.

        • ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]
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          Yeah I believe they were all banned related to various racial and national groups. Like knuckle dusters initially for Italians and now a perception around Black people. Nun chucks etc for the various Asian diasporas.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            43 months ago

            Yeah, all the kung-fu movie weapons - nunchucks, ninja stars, butterfly knives, were banned in the 80s because boomers saw some action movies and were like “woah a new way for me to be racist!”

        • ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]
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          83 months ago

          I think a lot of them because most cannon are smooth bore and black powder which in many state aren’t even considered a firearm. So yeah you could have a swivel gun from a ship under your trench coat.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          53 months ago

          Heavy ordnance in many jurisdictions isn’t regulated differently than small arms in most states if you have teh right paperwork.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        53 months ago

        Legality of arms in the us is basically just “how white coded is this weapon?” The more strongly weapons are associated with minorities the less legal they are.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      143 months ago

      If the US was serious about “preventing tyranny” with the second amendment, it would give everyone AAA or AT missiles and launchers