Fun fact: the black powder handguns in the picture don't even legally count as firearms in America. You don't need a background check to get one, and they can be shipped straight to your door in most states.
Of course not many people are out there committing violent crimes with percussion cap revolvers.
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
"Antique firearm", which has a completely different set of regulations.
There are local laws restricting them in some ways. Like I know in my state, if you can't own a firearm you can't legally own an antique firearm either. But I could order any one of those handguns online just as easily as anything else.
Fun fact: the black powder handguns in the picture don't even legally count as firearms in America. You don't need a background check to get one, and they can be shipped straight to your door in most states.
Of course not many people are out there committing violent crimes with percussion cap revolvers.
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Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
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The copypasta that never gets old
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this shit is gold
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I was going to make a pirate joke but I see all of Twitter has beaten me to it.
Except for that guy who tried to assassinate Andrew Jackson
Really? But if they aren't called firearms - what are they called?
Old timey pew-pew fun sticks?
"Antique firearm", which has a completely different set of regulations.
There are local laws restricting them in some ways. Like I know in my state, if you can't own a firearm you can't legally own an antique firearm either. But I could order any one of those handguns online just as easily as anything else.
How often is that law actually enforced? Just about never?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZUmtvJhLy5Y