Fear not, a clean 100% so far(since the '30s) of automatic weapons and similar military weaponry like rockets and grenades used in murders in the US are of the safe illegal kind(stolen from the military, hand built, or smuggled over the border) not the abhorrent regulated and taxed sort which can be used in a TV shoot or movie.
Machine gun laws are like laws against switchblades, something too cool to be legal but not terribly different statistically from easily obtainable weapons like automobile fuel. Too cool for school makes an easy thing to ban for a legislator who has to show he did something amongst the graft.
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Honestly, was there any doubt that itād work? I mean, thereās /nothing/ in this that was remotely unlikely.
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IIRC I believe the only hitch was that the real garage door opener was too slow, so Adam had to weld a strut or something to the wrench to get the swing speed right on the M60, but yeah, otherwise itās like a completely doable thing from the show besides garage door openers being geared for torque rather than velocity.
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There are obsessive people out there who will pay good money for any kind of morbid memorabilia.
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At one point, there was a manufacturer making reproductions of the DeLisle carbine, and that required two tax stamps, one for the silencer and one for the short barrel.
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Tell me. I am too broke to buy an original ICBM launch key, a key opening the gates of hell, for myself.
Making a replica of the Soviet one from sufficiently detailed photographs I scored from an ebay auction of the keys is on the todo list.
Like Iāve always said, please stick to the rivers and lakes youāre used to.
How much are those? That would be cool a fuck.
At this moment there are two out there. Usually thereās none, they tend to be relatively rare.
Wow. The Titian one is ratherā¦ mundane. I can see like the janitor having a spare key with 100 others, āHold on, hold on, itās one of these!ā
Though wow $55 for a <$1 blank copied from a key? Thatās one hell of a mark up.
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For real. And they provide a high enough detail image that you could probably just make your own.
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My thoughts as well. Was rather disappointing to see.
True that. Thatās why I am not buying. And itās not an original anyway, which would make the price more reasonable.
Iād upgrade the probability to ācertainlyā, given what we heard about photographs of keys in security context. The task is further simplified by not needing so much accuracy anyway, as thereās little chance to test it in the lock anyway. I could make one from a blank with just a needle file and some time, the only thing Iād need is to get the blank (anybody has an idea where, if possible with the same embossing?).
The Russian key looks quite better, more unusual. The photos are detailed, and there are enough with absolute scale reference (the measuring scales) to make a visually identical duplicate a matter of a few afternoons in the shop and some brass stock and some nickel (chrome?) plating. (Maybe steel would work too but it is less easy to machine. But is also more available in the at-hand stock.) Looks tempting to meā¦ Will need some measurements on the images, perspective corrections, and so on, and some guesses, but should not be difficult.
I saved the images away for later use.
Wasnāt this episode like months ago?
Brass policing is important.
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Bacon, an often-overlooked aspect of modern shooting sports. As with Twinkies.
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I love that he also has to take out his badass knife to open the Twinkie packaging. Thatās some serious science though.
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