Originally published at: Drunk gentleman arrested in NYC subway station carrying bizarre homemade gas-powered rifle | Boing Boing
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Yikes! That is at least as dangerous as my never built steampunk propane “lightsaber” would have been!
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Why even conceal it, considering it looks more like a piece of plumbing than a gun.
Also, is the barrel truly “rifled”? I have my doubts.
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And yet the Supreme Court’s fascist wing wants to make it easy for people to carry guns on the subways. Fuck them!
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An inelegant weapon for a less civilized age.
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Montoya, you say…
There’s a you killed my father joke hiding in there but I haven’t the reach to find it.
le sigh
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This one?
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Felons can’t possess devices that use gas pressure to fire projectiles? I guess these are out then:
This one.
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Wow, I don’t even recognize most of those parts!
Hydraulics it is then!
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This being USA, was that gas-powered as in the stuff you put in your vehicles or as in non-liquid, non-solid substance? 
(Yeah, but before I read beyond the headline I was seriously trying to visualise a two-stroke motor on a rifle.)
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I’ve seen outdoor survival folks on youtube using air powered hunting rifles talking about how they are becoming more popular because they didn’t need a license. There are brick and mortar stores that just sell these powerful air rifles. I’d like to see them become as regulated as firearms are/used to be.
That construction appears to be a basic potato gun. I thought those were legal in the US? Or is the illegal part that he was concealing it? Or carrying it in the subway?
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