Actually... you can. By law, if you're either in military or have martial art training, when you attack someone bare handed they can charge you with assault with a lethal weapon.
Bad example that the article starts out with (typical media crap that makes the kid seem like it's just a high school prank). It starts with a story about an kid brandishing a BB gun to rob people. He robbed an off-duty cop with it so the cop's partner shot & killed the kid. There's better examples of cops killing people with fake guns later in the article. But that first kid had to know if the gun looks real enough to rob someone, that someone might think it was a real enough to shoot him over.
A) It's not really a rifle. The headline is misleading. RTFA.
B) It is not illegal (here in Texas and in most of the states) to carry around a rifle with a scope. This is not even really a rifle.
Now if you're seen pointing it at people, you might get some police at the very least asking WTF is going on, at the worst, you might get shot. Explaining that you're a "hax0r" probably won't help. But it's probably not a good idea after the sniper attacks a while ago to be visibly pointing a rifle-like object
In most of the united states, carrying around an Fn sniper rifle is perfectly legal.
No, most FN (Fabrique Nationale d' Armes du Guerre, Belgian company) rifles fall under the prohibition on assault rifles and other scary-looking weapons.
(Sorry, I'll go away now...)
(I used to have an FN (-C1A1, 7.62mm NATO). I had to give it back when I left the army.)
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What, so instead of "Fucking tool" it now will mean "Fucking tool who's in jail for aiming a sniper rifle at someone"?
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B) It is not illegal (here in Texas and in most of the states) to carry around a rifle with a scope. This is not even really a rifle.
Now if you're seen pointing it at people, you might get some police at the very least asking WTF is going on, at the worst, you might get shot. Explaining that you're a "hax0r" probably won't help. But it's probably not a good idea after the sniper attacks a while ago to be visibly pointing a rifle-like object
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That would result in:
2) Nerd factor points increase in orders of magnitude
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I've seen Sixteen Candles WAY too many times. Sigh...
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No, most FN (Fabrique Nationale d' Armes du Guerre, Belgian company) rifles fall under the prohibition on assault rifles and other scary-looking weapons.
(Sorry, I'll go away now...)
(I used to have an FN (-C1A1, 7.62mm NATO). I had to give it back when I left the army.)