Brickbat: Don't Shoot

Police in Bedfordshire, England, were mocked after posting online a flintlock pistol they seized during a drug raid. A photo of the pistol indicates it has no trigger and no hammer. The police report they also found a sword and drugs. The man, who wasn't named, faces drugs and firearms charges.

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[SQRLSY One]

That's very triggering to me! Reason should get HAMMERED for triggering me like that! Flintlock Charlie Oliver up and throw away the key!

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[CE]

he was just a flash in the pan anyway.

[SQRLSY One]

Maybe the British bobbies (and boobies) were afraid that the offender was a time-traveler from feudal Japan, and that he'd shogun them down!

[Vernon Depner]

Shogun is only one letter from shotgun! That could be triggering!

[The Encogitationer]

You mean the Brits are threatened by a weapon like this?:

Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. Go Mouse Hunting
https://youtu.be/Mzm_slffhsk

Hell, you're just likely to kill yourself as anyone else with that thing!

But I guess the Brits have to keep their citizens alive long enough to get their taxes to the National Health Service and the Welfare State, right?

[Fist of Etiquette]

If only we could all exist in an accountability-free, shame-free bubble.

[Earth Skeptic]

Coming soon to a Democratic city near you! (Cuz the pilot programs in Chicago, DC, NYC, etc. have worked so well.)

[Vernon Depner]

Like the samurai.

[Earth Skeptic]

Yeah, if only our modern US elites would kills themselves if they did something dishonorable.

[markm23]

At least in the 20th Century, not even the Japanese elites that proclaimed that Samurai BS killed themselves when they screwed up. That was only for lower officers.

[Jerryskids]

Imagine getting clubbed in the head with that thing! It's fully as dangerous a weapon as a hammer, a pipe wrench or a golf club.

[Commenter_XY]

Clearly, we need to outlaw those too: a hammer, a pipe wrench or a golf club

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

Noone dneeds more than one type of golf club

[MatthewSlyfield]

And limits on the capacity of golf club bags.

[American Mongrel]

That'd make for an interesting tourney.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

They're working on that; "what you doing wi' 'at 'ammer guv'nor? You got a license fo' that?

[Brandybuck]

England has already outlawed kitchen knives without a permit. It's like a parody come to life. Next thing you know they'll be requiring fish licenses.

[MatthewSlyfield]

That's already in the works. Wait until they come out with the license license.

[CE]

I think the full list of weapons to be banned is as follows:

candlestick, revolver, lead pipe, rope, wrench, and knife

[Dillinger]

still don't know what a conservatory is

[MatthewSlyfield]

Conservatory

Conservatory (greenhouse), a substantial building or room where plants are cultivated, including medicinal ones and including attached residential solariums

Music school, or a school devoted to other arts such as dance

Sunroom, a smaller glass enclosure or garden shed attached to a house, also called a conservatory

For the purposes of the game clue, the first or last definitions.

[Vernon Depner]

Col. Mustard, with the lead pipe, in the ass.

[markm23]

"candlestick, revolver, lead pipe, rope, wrench, and knife"

So semi-auto pistols, rifles, shotguns, and a 155mm howitzer are OK? Also axes, swords, spears, billhooks, crowbars, and baseball bats?

[Ben of Houston]

Only when wielded by people with color-themed names an in a large mansion with a curiously consistent tile floor and secret passages.

[Jgalt1975]

You're joking, but I believe Reason has reported before on people in the UK being charged for carrying a "weapon" for having things like a length of chain with them.

[MatthewSlyfield]

I remember an article with a picture of "knives" confiscated by London PD. They had put it out to tout the success of their knife control law.

The picture included several serving/carving forks and several serving spoons.

[SQRLSY One]

A contractor demolishes a building in the UK. Lorry driver will have to inspect the entire cargo of rubble, to make sure there is not ONE instance of a pipe connected to wood in the rubble, or lorry driver might be stopped, searched, and charged with having a "gun"! And, as he hauls away the rubble, HE will be hauled away!

[Chumby]

The penis mightier than the sword.

[Vulgar Madman]

“The penis is evil! The gun is good!”

[Vernon Depner]

From the GOP platform?

[Chumby]

Feminazis.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland]

The police also foun dozens of "wood supported graphite mini spears" and "metal 4 tined mini harpoon" their only guess is that he was planning a mass assualt

[Vulgar Madman]

Maybe they nabbed captain Ahab.

[mad.casual]

metal 4 tined mini harpoon

4-tined harpoon is a loaded political term created and used by hoplophobes to advance their agenda. The correct term is tetradent.

[Earth Skeptic]

AKA frog sticker.

[SQRLSY One]

French frog-legs party!

[CE]

Or a cocktail party.

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[mad.casual]

The FF couldn't have conceptualized a non-functioning flintlock pistol when they wrote the 2A.

[Earth Skeptic]

You all have missed the point. In this century, just the idea of something is the moral and physical equivalent of a thing, especially when considering risk and harm. For snowflake nannies, a non-functioning antique gun is way more real that the word "trigger", which they have proved to be a major threat to sensitive people.

[CE]

somebody took Plato's theory of forms a little too seriously

[Vernon Depner]

Philosophy is white supremacy.

[Brandybuck]

Usually rules like this are at the city level, England being England, so it's quite easy to find the silly cities and mock them. And mocked they rightly shall be! But this is not a national law that non-functional flintlocks are banned.

This is also the first case of someone being charged with possessing a non-functional antique firearm I have ever heard of. Usually the most ardent of gun control nuts usually leaves carve out for non-functional as well as antiques.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Some English city forbade their fire fighters from using 3-step stepladders in homes for smoke alarm inspections, because they hadn't been trained on them.

There was a flurry of similarly stupid reports about the same time, 5-10 years ago. A school canceled their Easter weekend festivities because the grass-covered ground was rough and the kindergartners might fall down. Apparently none of those fine admins had ever noticed that is what kindergartners do: run around, fall down, get up, rinse, repeat.

[Earth Skeptic]

The Brits have become a sad parody of themselves, and a model for the rest of the world: drunken football hooligans vs. extreme statist pussies.

[Vernon Depner]

Extreme Statist Pussies would be a good name for an Emo band.

[SQRLSY One]

https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/02/new-jersey-gun-laws-felony-possession-antique-flintlock/
New Jersey gun laws: felony for possession of antique flintlock

New Jersey is a shithole!!!

https://www.overlawyered.com/?s=brian+aitken also....

[mad.casual]

But this is not a national law that non-functional flintlocks are banned.

Yeah, because that interpretation would be ridiculously inconsistent with other evidence.

[Agammamon]

Uhm, no - non-functional flintlocks are nationally banned without the proper permit in the UK.

The UK really doesn't get to do regulations by city - except for a tiny number that have special privileges like the City of London. They have national police forces and laws are made on the national level.

Which isn't necessarily as horrible as it seems - the UK is smaller than half our states and even its largest internal nations (Scottland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland) are smaller than most East Coast states.

Its laws are horrible because their government is full of horrible people.

[CE]

A flintlock pistol AND a sword? No one needs an arsenal of weapons like that.

You know who else carried a flintlock pistol and a sword?

[SQRLSY One]

Martin-went-a-fartin', of the "Zimmerman/Martin" case?

The lost OTHER part of the truth (Martin threw away the sword and the pistol by his side, before he died, and the cops never found it, bumbling fools that they were), but here is the REAL truth:
Martin went a fartin’,
And he did ride,
With a sword and a pistol
By his side,
Lookin’ for a “creepy ass cracker”
To help him eat his skittles,
So when he couldn’t find his spittoon,
He spit instead in his shittooon,
And shit instead in his spittoon,
While the cow jumped over the moon,
And the dish snorted coke with a spoon,
And we’ll all know the truth real soon!

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Johnny Depp?

[CE]

Jack Sparrow is the worst pirate I've ever heard of.

[Kevin Smith]

Ah, but you *have* heard of him!

[Earth Skeptic]

Hamilton?

[Agammamon]

Frog?

[Vernon Depner]

Florida Man?

[Chumby]

Patrick Fleming (likely subject of Whiskey in the Jar)?

[Dillinger]

there were wood-made toy pirate pistolas when I was a kid looked alot like that.

[Lester224]

Not a peep on this story in a so-called libertarian magazine:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/opinion/poolaw-miscarriage.html

[Quo Usque Tandem]

https://reason.com/2021/10/14/woman-convicted-manslaughter-miscarriage-abortion-oklahoma-brittney-poolaw/

[Jgalt1975]

Well, yeah, but that's an article, not a peep!

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[RedPilledConservative]

Oh, it's a non-functional antique type weapon - throw the book at them!! SMH

[Restoring the Dream]

Also missing frizzen. Utterly non-functional except as a club.**

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