Potato Gun Ban...LOL

[Lumpy 1]

a 1994 column written by a humorist

There is no law in Floriduh that says potato guns are illegal

(((LOL= laugh out loud)))

There are so many threads about guns, I'm sure every point of view has been discussed several times over, maybe in honor of New Years we could lighten up a little.


I haven't seen a potato gun in a toy store for years, maybe I'm wrong, maybe in California there illegal, maybe not...

You're always wrong.
spud gun - Google Search

..and you're very in touch with your feminine side..Yes

 

[Spoonman]

When I was a kid we had hand held potato guns, you would stick the end of the gun into a potato twist then turn the gun, a pellet of potato remained in the gun, which you promptly shot at a friend.

mmm. I believe the liberal insisted that these guns be made illegal and they were successful..


Liberals....DEDICATED TO RUINING ALL THE FUN....



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Potato Guns Threaten Life and Limb -- And They're Really Cool
By Dave Barry

Copied from Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Sunday, September 11, 1994

(NOTE FROM THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT: The activities described in this column are dangerous and stupid and possibly illegal and should be performed only by trained humor professionals who are good at sneaking around. This newspaper assumes no responsibility or liability for any injuries, deaths, maimings, cripplings, eyes getting poked out, pregnancies, fires, riots, ointments or suppositories that may or may not occur as a result of some moron attempting any of these activities or any other actions, forfeitures, debentures, indemnifications, and such other big scary legal words as we may or may not think up at some future point in time. Thank you.)

For more than a year now, alert readers have been sending me alarming newspaper articles about the "potato gun," a bazooka-sized device that can shoot a potato several hundred yards at speeds up to 1,000 feet per second. To give you an idea how fast that is, an ordinary potato, on its own, will rarely travel more than four feet per day, even during the height of mating season.

Potato guns -- which have already been banned in some municipalities -- can be easily made from plastic pipe available in any plumbing supply store; the explosive force comes from ordinary hair spray, which is ignited by an electrical spark. Needless to say I will not provide any specific details concerning how to construct these devices, because a great many young people read this column, and they already know how to construct these devices.

Anyway, I recently got a fax from an individual whom I will identify here only as "Buzz Fleischman, 810 Pinecrest Drive, Miami Springs, Fla. 33166, telephone (305) 885-4817." Buzz, who makes his living performing humor at corporate meetings and other functions, and who by the way currently has some openings on his calendar, informed me that he had constructed a potato gun, and was willing to demonstrate it for the purpose of helping me, as a responsible adult, better understand just how alarming this menace is.


Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters

I made one of those about 10 years ago with the boys. They had such a blast with it.

 

[jknowgood]

Aww, really?

I understand stuff like a potato gun is harmless.
Some people go way too far with control. All I want is regulation for actual firearms.

A potatoe gun is harmless? Have you ever shot one?

 

[skookerasbil]

 

[Luddly Neddite]

When I was a kid we had hand held potato guns, you would stick the end of the gun into a potato twist then turn the gun, a pellet of potato remained in the gun, which you promptly shot at a friend.

mmm. I believe the liberal insisted that these guns be made illegal and they were successful..


Liberals....DEDICATED TO RUINING ALL THE FUN....



----------------------------------(((((Go To the link, I recommend it))))


Potato Guns Threaten Life and Limb -- And They're Really Cool
By Dave Barry

Copied from Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Sunday, September 11, 1994

(NOTE FROM THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT: The activities described in this column are dangerous and stupid and possibly illegal and should be performed only by trained humor professionals who are good at sneaking around. This newspaper assumes no responsibility or liability for any injuries, deaths, maimings, cripplings, eyes getting poked out, pregnancies, fires, riots, ointments or suppositories that may or may not occur as a result of some moron attempting any of these activities or any other actions, forfeitures, debentures, indemnifications, and such other big scary legal words as we may or may not think up at some future point in time. Thank you.)

For more than a year now, alert readers have been sending me alarming newspaper articles about the "potato gun," a bazooka-sized device that can shoot a potato several hundred yards at speeds up to 1,000 feet per second. To give you an idea how fast that is, an ordinary potato, on its own, will rarely travel more than four feet per day, even during the height of mating season.

Potato guns -- which have already been banned in some municipalities -- can be easily made from plastic pipe available in any plumbing supply store; the explosive force comes from ordinary hair spray, which is ignited by an electrical spark. Needless to say I will not provide any specific details concerning how to construct these devices, because a great many young people read this column, and they already know how to construct these devices.

Anyway, I recently got a fax from an individual whom I will identify here only as "Buzz Fleischman, 810 Pinecrest Drive, Miami Springs, Fla. 33166, telephone (305) 885-4817." Buzz, who makes his living performing humor at corporate meetings and other functions, and who by the way currently has some openings on his calendar, informed me that he had constructed a potato gun, and was willing to demonstrate it for the purpose of helping me, as a responsible adult, better understand just how alarming this menace is.


Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters

This is a stooopid very childish thread but, as with any weapon, I am still dead set against you gun nuts wanting to make sure that criminals, illegal aliens and those on our terrorist list being able to buy anything they want.

 

[Lakhota]

Last I heard, spud guns are not federally regulated. Check your state and local regulations...

 

[Lumpy 1]

When I was a kid we had hand held potato guns, you would stick the end of the gun into a potato twist then turn the gun, a pellet of potato remained in the gun, which you promptly shot at a friend.

mmm. I believe the liberal insisted that these guns be made illegal and they were successful..


Liberals....DEDICATED TO RUINING ALL THE FUN....



----------------------------------(((((Go To the link, I recommend it))))


Potato Guns Threaten Life and Limb -- And They're Really Cool
By Dave Barry

Copied from Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Sunday, September 11, 1994

(NOTE FROM THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT: The activities described in this column are dangerous and stupid and possibly illegal and should be performed only by trained humor professionals who are good at sneaking around. This newspaper assumes no responsibility or liability for any injuries, deaths, maimings, cripplings, eyes getting poked out, pregnancies, fires, riots, ointments or suppositories that may or may not occur as a result of some moron attempting any of these activities or any other actions, forfeitures, debentures, indemnifications, and such other big scary legal words as we may or may not think up at some future point in time. Thank you.)

For more than a year now, alert readers have been sending me alarming newspaper articles about the "potato gun," a bazooka-sized device that can shoot a potato several hundred yards at speeds up to 1,000 feet per second. To give you an idea how fast that is, an ordinary potato, on its own, will rarely travel more than four feet per day, even during the height of mating season.

Potato guns -- which have already been banned in some municipalities -- can be easily made from plastic pipe available in any plumbing supply store; the explosive force comes from ordinary hair spray, which is ignited by an electrical spark. Needless to say I will not provide any specific details concerning how to construct these devices, because a great many young people read this column, and they already know how to construct these devices.

Anyway, I recently got a fax from an individual whom I will identify here only as "Buzz Fleischman, 810 Pinecrest Drive, Miami Springs, Fla. 33166, telephone (305) 885-4817." Buzz, who makes his living performing humor at corporate meetings and other functions, and who by the way currently has some openings on his calendar, informed me that he had constructed a potato gun, and was willing to demonstrate it for the purpose of helping me, as a responsible adult, better understand just how alarming this menace is.


Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters

This is a stooopid very childish thread but, as with any weapon, I am still dead set against you gun nuts wanting to make sure that criminals, illegal aliens and those on our terrorist list being able to buy anything they want.

After the hogwash you just posted, I'm forced to agree..

 

[Spoonman]

When I was a kid we had hand held potato guns, you would stick the end of the gun into a potato twist then turn the gun, a pellet of potato remained in the gun, which you promptly shot at a friend.

mmm. I believe the liberal insisted that these guns be made illegal and they were successful..


Liberals....DEDICATED TO RUINING ALL THE FUN....



----------------------------------(((((Go To the link, I recommend it))))


Potato Guns Threaten Life and Limb -- And They're Really Cool
By Dave Barry

Copied from Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Sunday, September 11, 1994

(NOTE FROM THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT: The activities described in this column are dangerous and stupid and possibly illegal and should be performed only by trained humor professionals who are good at sneaking around. This newspaper assumes no responsibility or liability for any injuries, deaths, maimings, cripplings, eyes getting poked out, pregnancies, fires, riots, ointments or suppositories that may or may not occur as a result of some moron attempting any of these activities or any other actions, forfeitures, debentures, indemnifications, and such other big scary legal words as we may or may not think up at some future point in time. Thank you.)

For more than a year now, alert readers have been sending me alarming newspaper articles about the "potato gun," a bazooka-sized device that can shoot a potato several hundred yards at speeds up to 1,000 feet per second. To give you an idea how fast that is, an ordinary potato, on its own, will rarely travel more than four feet per day, even during the height of mating season.

Potato guns -- which have already been banned in some municipalities -- can be easily made from plastic pipe available in any plumbing supply store; the explosive force comes from ordinary hair spray, which is ignited by an electrical spark. Needless to say I will not provide any specific details concerning how to construct these devices, because a great many young people read this column, and they already know how to construct these devices.

Anyway, I recently got a fax from an individual whom I will identify here only as "Buzz Fleischman, 810 Pinecrest Drive, Miami Springs, Fla. 33166, telephone (305) 885-4817." Buzz, who makes his living performing humor at corporate meetings and other functions, and who by the way currently has some openings on his calendar, informed me that he had constructed a potato gun, and was willing to demonstrate it for the purpose of helping me, as a responsible adult, better understand just how alarming this menace is.


Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters

This is a stooopid very childish thread but, as with any weapon, I am still dead set against you gun nuts wanting to make sure that criminals, illegal aliens and those on our terrorist list being able to buy anything they want.

pssst, most aren't going through legal channels. Ban all you want. they are the only ones who will have them

 

[Mr. H.]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dtItRQJpVM]TATER GUN.AVI - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Lumpy 1]