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Post by jonksy on Mar 15, 2024 18:24:46 GMT
There are always those who can adapt other materials for use... Exactly, and with sites like TikTok (never used it myself) and Youtube (use it quite a bit) there's no real way of stopping someone learning to do just that. Give the 3D Printing technology another 5-10 years and the UK restriction on gun ownership will be all but pointless too. I am not saying that is a good thing by the way, just pointing out that technology increasingly decentralises the means of production for such things. All The Best The glock 17's 3 D printing plans are feeely available on the net... |
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 15, 2024 18:37:14 GMT
Exactly, and with sites like TikTok (never used it myself) and Youtube (use it quite a bit) there's no real way of stopping someone learning to do just that. Give the 3D Printing technology another 5-10 years and the UK restriction on gun ownership will be all but pointless too. I am not saying that is a good thing by the way, just pointing out that technology increasingly decentralises the means of production for such things. All The Best The glock 17's 3 D printing plans are feeely available on the net... Yes they are, very few private individuals can afford a 3D Printer with high enough fidelity to make a safely functioning weapon though. Another decade and almost every household will have such a printer by default, in much the same way we have fridges now. All The Best |
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Post by Vinny on Mar 15, 2024 19:17:05 GMT
3d printed guns are about as safe as letting Gary Glitter babysit your kids.
Too much risk of them blowing up in your face and ripping it off.
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 15, 2024 19:32:31 GMT
3d printed guns are about as safe as letting Gary Glitter babysit your kids. Too much risk of them blowing up in your face and ripping it off. Absolutely, for now. 10 years down the line though will be a very different story. All The Best |
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Post by Hutchyns on Mar 15, 2024 20:25:23 GMT
I seem to recall a few decades or more ago reading about a bloke who, after having stuff nicked from his garden shed one too many times, had rigged up a crossbow inside it, so that the consequences for the next burglar would be particularly nasty. But no burglars were on the receiving end, and after two or three weeks had passed, the owner absent mindedly opened the door to his own shed ..... I can't remember if he died or survived. Anyway, still on the subject of crossbows, here's a link if anyone wants to re-live the great Anglesey Crossbow Murder of 2019 link - Crossbow Killing |
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Post by jonksy on Mar 15, 2024 21:02:15 GMT
Here is a Beretta 92 built using only paper. It wouldn't fire a bean of course but the owner of one these could easily receive a third eye if they pointed it at any armed police officer...
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Post by Dan Dare on Mar 15, 2024 22:43:34 GMT
What possible legitimate use could there be a crossbow in the 21st century? The damned things should be banned completely. I am sure The Sealed Knot and the many thousands of other Historical Reenactors would disagree with you. Also much safer for something like vermin (rat) control as the Quarrel does not ricochet in the way even an air pellet can, or even pass through to potentially harm someone / something beyond the target. All The Best I'm unsure when licensed pest control operatives began to use crossbows for rodent eradication in recent times but if you have a source for that it would be much appreciated.
Similarly for the Sealed Knot which as I understand it focuses on re-enactments relating to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms during which, as far as I'm aware, the crossbow was not much used having been superseded by the musket. But I'll be happy to stand corrected if you have information to the contrary.
Of course I can't comment on the 'many thousands' of other historical Re-enactors you mention as dedicated crossbow aficianados who would now no doubt be dismayed if the government were to ban them completely.
And all the best to you too.
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 15, 2024 23:17:14 GMT
I am sure The Sealed Knot and the many thousands of other Historical Reenactors would disagree with you. Also much safer for something like vermin (rat) control as the Quarrel does not ricochet in the way even an air pellet can, or even pass through to potentially harm someone / something beyond the target. All The Best I'm unsure when licensed pest control operatives began to use crossbows for rodent eradication in recent times but if you have a source for that it would be much appreciated.
Never said anything about "licensed pest control operatives". I was talking from the point of view of someone who has used a Crossbow, .22 Air Rifle, and a 410 Shotgun to deal with vermin. I also mentioned "other historical reenactors", All The Best |
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Post by jonksy on Mar 16, 2024 8:18:40 GMT
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 16, 2024 9:32:59 GMT
Yeah, this needs investigating and the perpetrators locking up ASAP. That requires a properly funded Police Force, Judiciary and Prison System though, and we just don't have that. All The Best |
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 16, 2024 10:25:40 GMT
I see overnight two people in Londonistan were shot with crossbows, one in the head the other in the neck. I have every confidence Khan the incompetent will insist crime has gone down on his watch.
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Post by ProVeritas on Mar 16, 2024 11:26:43 GMT
I see overnight two people in Londonistan were shot with crossbows, one in the head the other in the neck. I have every confidence Khan the incompetent will insist crime has gone down on his watch. Well, factually, crimes might have gone down on his watch (not saying it has, saying that it could have). Two crimes can not ever been seen as an indicator of overall levels of crime. Here you go: LinkCrime in London is falling, but public perception of crime is increasing; likely thanks to shrill Post-Truth-Tories lying about Crime under Khan. Read the article, even the the Daily Mail was forced to retract claims about gun crime soaring under Khan because they simply had not understood the data properly. All The Best |
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 16, 2024 11:45:01 GMT
London knife and gun crime surges amid gang warfare.
Knife crime in London is rising at its fastest rate in five years with more than 40 incidents reported to the police every day, the Telegraph can reveal. Warfare between rival drug gangs combined with spiralling street robbery rates are contributing to the surge in violent offences. Gun crime in the capital is also on the increase with shootings up more than six per cent on the same period in 2022. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/25/drug-gangs-worst-spike-knife-gun-crime-five-years/The official response from the Mayors off ice - Move along folks, nothing to see here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2024 14:05:41 GMT
I see overnight two people in Londonistan were shot with crossbows, one in the head the other in the neck. I have every confidence Khan the incompetent will insist crime has gone down on his watch. He will call for crossbows to be banned to give them equivalence to the firearms the criminals are already using illegally to shoot each other in the turf wars. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 16, 2024 14:10:01 GMT
I see overnight two people in Londonistan were shot with crossbows, one in the head the other in the neck. I have every confidence Khan the incompetent will insist crime has gone down on his watch. He will call for crossbows to be banned to give them equivalence to the firearms the criminals are already using illegally to shoot each other in the turf wars. Mmm, possibly. Or he may come out with the tried and tested - minorities have resorted to crossbows because they disadvantaged. |
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