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Posted: 10/24/2004 8:31:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2004 8:32:41 PM EDT
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Well, it must be hand held and make an explosion. AFter that I am not sure SGatr15 |
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Posted: 10/24/2004 8:33:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2004 8:34:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2004 8:34:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2004 8:34:59 PM EDT
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 From the 1968 GCA:
My definition: A device small enough for a man to carry, that goes boom and spits out a piece of metal. |
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Posted: 10/24/2004 8:38:58 PM EDT
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excellent.
I was just wondering how the BATFE percieves a firearm- legaly. So railguns, plasma weapons...arnt regulated by them...right  |
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Posted: 10/24/2004 9:33:44 PM EDT
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Firearm = fire + arm
An arm is a weapon. A firearm is a weapon which operates using "fire". Remember, the matchlocks and early cannon all literally used fire (a match or a punk was used) to initiate the propellant and expell the projectile. Hence, you would have "fired the weapon" when applied fire to the powder charge causing it to expell the projectile. Our Boxer-primed and Berdan-primed systems work when the primer mixture injects fire into the powder charge. We still use fire but we no longer need a match, or a punk. |
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