by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday August 06, 2004 @11:20AM (#9899165)
It's not a rifle. The damn thing doesn't have
a trigger, magazine, or even a goddamned
barrel. It's just an antenna
taped onto a stock with a scope mounted on it.
You're just as likely to get arrested
for carrying a squirtgun.
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
The opulence of the front office door varies inversely with the fundamental
solvency of the firm.
Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. (Score:4, Funny)
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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You're just as likely to get arrested for carrying a squirtgun.
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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