Guns don't kill people ....

[sexobon]

That's nothing, I've downloaded the plans for a thermonuclear hand grenade.

When I went through US Army basic training, the hand grenade training was conducted by a cadre with imagination. Recruits were seated in outdoor bleachers on a firing range as an instructor presented a lecture followed by a demonstration in which the instructor threw a grenade (inert; but, the recruits didn't know it) out to a predetermined spot on the range. When the dummy grenade hit the ground, another cadre member set off a nuclear explosion training simulator (a relatively new pyro-technique that sent up flames and smoke in a massive mushroom cloud) prepositioned on that spot. The results were spectacular and the recruits gave the demonstration a standing ovation. The legend of the thermonuclear hand grenade was born.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by sexobon

That's nothing, I've downloaded the plans for a thermonuclear hand grenade.

Well, not quite a hand grenade, but about as close as you can get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Cr...lear_device%29

tl;dr recoilless rifle, range 2 km, yield 0.02 kilotons, nasty radiation.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by sexobon

That's nothing, I've downloaded the plans for a thermonuclear hand grenade.

Here.

[Lamplighter]

Bloomberg
By Greg Stohr
Apr 15, 2013

New York Gun Limits Intact as High Court Rejects Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a rebuff to gun-rights
advocates including the National Rifle Association,
leaving intact New York’s requirement that people wishing to carry a
handgun in public show a special need for protection.

Refusing for now to be drawn into the fractious nationwide debate over firearms,
the justices today let stand a federal appeals court decision that said
the century-old New York law didn’t infringe the Constitution’s Second Amendment.
The court made no comment, turning away an appeal by five New York residents
and a gun-rights group as part of a list of orders released in Washington.
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In upholding New York’s law, which requires applicants to show “proper cause"
to get a permit to carry a weapon, a federal appeals court pointed to what it called
“a longstanding tradition of states regulating firearm possession and use in public because
of the dangers posed to public safety.”
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