Young man in UK sentenced to 8.5 years for making crude gun

Sure a tiny little amount. How much flash powder do you think is in an average firecracker now?

I believe a cherry bomb used to have two and a half grams.

I bet you it's a tenth of a gram at most. And don't even get ripped off by those stupid " m80s " they sell at the fireworks tents now.

Those are nothing more than a standard size firecracker put into a larger paper tube with m80 on it.

Fireworks are lame as hell nowadays. I say let Darwin have control of it ! Bring back the cherry bombs and the silver salutes and the cracker balls of yesteryear !!!

And by the way.... It's Rita to you sir !
I'm throwing a party today to celebrate my first week of girlhood. YaYYyy!!!!! Go me !!!

 

Enough to kill 9 and send 11,500 to the emergency room every year.

 

We can't try to protect everyone from a lack of common Sense. We need to let Darwin out of his cage to have free roam.

We boys were probably about 6 years old when we learned that firecrackers hurt when they go off in your hand that you better be really careful if it has a short fuse.

 

Well, that 'tiny amount' of gun powder can do a lot of damage in wrong hands, and same is true with many other things. But as you know we live in Florida where most fireworks are strictly forbidden by the big brother in Tallahassee.

 

I think they might fall under the consumer safety protection commission or something like that.

You can still buy firecrackers and bottle rockets and Roman candles and aerial shells.
But now you have to sign some stupid release form stating that you're going to use them for agricultural purposes such as scaring off birds or signaling on a railroad.

 

Quote: "It is illegal in Florida to use fireworks, which include: shells and mortars, multiple tube devices, Roman candles, rockets and firecrackers, when such use is not in strict compliance with Chapter 791.012, Florida Statutes. Floridians should not sign "waivers" in order to purchase fireworks."

A Roman candle contains about 20 grams of powder.

 

And yet there are still tents everywhere and the neighborhood sounds like a war zone on the 4th of July and New Year's.... It was the exact same way when I lived in Tampa.

That Florida statute probably has something to do with the aforementioned agricultural or railroad use.

Roman candles contain Stars separated by lift powder. It's not all just one composition of explosive powder.
Lift powder is just very coarsely granulated black powder, pretty sure it's the one FG. It does exactly what the name suggest.... It's designed to lift your stars and also ignite them

 

My neighbor gets real fireworks from North Carolina. The tents down here sell stuff, but not real fireworks which you can shoot in the air.

 

It might be some sort of county ordinance.
The tents here sell bottle rockets and Roman candles and mortar shells. When I was a kid in Marion county they weren't allowed to sell firecrackers or anything that went in the air.

Maybe that's why here we have to sign that stupid release form. For a small rural town there are a lot of people here that piss away a lot of money every 4th of July.

And then you got your bubba cracker rednecks.... That just go out in the yard and shoot off guns.... Hopefully into the ground or with blanks. But of course I'm sure a lot of the dummies are shooting them up into the air

 

Guns are illegal in the UK, Australia, and Sweden. But it is still easier for criminals to buy guns in the UK than it is to buy pizza.

 

No, they are not illegal. Hunting is popular in Sweden and AUS. Gun ownership in Sweden it fairly high, with about 22% of citizens owning them. In Australia its about 15%.

No, its not.

 

You have been disinformed. Google: "1996 Dunblane Gun Ban" for The Inconvenient Truth.

"Chris, a stocky but affable thirty-something South
Londoner recently retired from a career in armed robbery,
comes bounding back from the bar with a cheeky grin on
his face. 'It'll be about 20 minutes,' he says. 'Less time than
it takes to deliver a pizza and plenty of time for another
drink. Same again?'

We are sitting behind a busy pool table in the dingy annexe of
a pub on the outskirts of Catford which, according to Chris, is
one of the easiest places in the capital to buy an illegal gun. ...
Few will be surprised that the number of illegal guns used on
the streets of London is currently at an all-time high, with at
least two shootings and four armed robberies every day since
the start of the year...."
THE EVENING STANDARD, ***Welcome to gun city 2002***, By Danny Brown, 12, April, 2012. (*** mine)
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/welcome-to-gun-city-2002-6302217.html

Disarming the public always encourages criminals to buy and carry guns. That is why all crime including gun crime soars after strict gun control laws are passed.
Only an armed public can actually keep the peace. Police states and other Utopian schemes are deadly.

 

Yes, a lot of people (such as yourself apparently) are perfectly okay putting a man in prison for EIGHT AND A HALF YEARS if he makes a single shot rifle (even one that doesn't work very well) when guns have been made illegal.

Everyone else should pay attention to the existence of people like you, and know that plenty of people like you exist.

 

Yea, its all about me.

Troll away my friend.

 

what we often see from the left are calls for ridiculously harsh sentences for malum prohibitum offenses while criticizing harsh sentences for malum per se offenses.

 

Yup, and I think it's an intentional attack on property rights. That's what socialism and communism amount to - the abolishing of property rights.

 

as I have noted before-lots of movements require enhanced or accentuated government control or restrictions on private property to achieve their stated goals. these groups include

1) gun banner/gun restrictionists
2) animal rights activists
3) Global warming hysterics
4) environmental crusaders

and while governmental control over the property of others is merely a MEANS to their Ends-those organizations invariably become the tools and pawns of people and organizations that see GOVERNMENTAL control of private property to be their real objective.