Unofficial List of Dumb Laws

[Sniper1]

Nyc Paintball Ban

Here is the offical press release concerning the ban and the fines for the stores that were carrying paintball markers.

http://home.nyc.gov/html/dca/pdf/si.pdf

Here is the second press release.

http://home.nyc.gov/html/dca/pdf/imitationguns.pdf

Here is the petition link again the ban of paintball markers.

http://www.petitiononline.com/pb101/petition.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ny/ctap/088_0163.htm

The premise: Items are outlawed or regulated because their lawful use is dangerous (drugs, alcohol, driving, etc.). If you purchase any item which has a benign purpose (toy guns, pencils, baseball bats, screwdrivers) and use it to conduct an unlawful act (each item previously mentioned has been used in a crime at some point in time), do we ban the sale of the item?

The big question here is the purpose of the law: To protect the innocent or protect the guilty. We're protecting the guilty (no one accidentally used a toy gun to get themselves injured or killed), not the innocent.

You'd think they'd outlaw real guns instead of toy guns first. Oh, yeah, they can't, because they are too easy to get in the black market. Oh, yeah, toy guns are easy to buy in New Jersey and Connecticut.

What's the point?

[Lohman446]

The worry here is not the crafting of new laws but the application of old ones (did I see 1955?) by someone who, it appears, is targetting paintball. A mass difference between the laws earlier this year where the crafters did not see paintball as the target.

[Sniper1]

The worry here is not the crafting of new laws but the application of old ones (did I see 1955?) by someone who, it appears, is targetting paintball. A mass difference between the laws earlier this year where the crafters did not see paintball as the target.

Basically and they have been running this old law into the ground around paintball dealers since 1995 now? It is a shame really.

[Lohman446]

Basically and they have been running this old law into the ground around paintball dealers since 1995 now? It is a shame really.

My concern is by close reading of MI law a paintball marker is a firearm... and then falls subject to dueling laws, etc.

[beam]

My concern is by close reading of MI law a paintball marker is a firearm... and then falls subject to dueling laws, etc.

My concern is that this thread is so old.

But hey, it was a good read this time around too!

[Sniper1]

My concern is that this thread is so old.

But hey, it was a good read this time around too!

I know how to revive old threads

[Indignant]

jeez, i didn't even look at any post dates until i saw a post by EsPo and wondered if he was back, haha.

[ScatterPlot]

(BTW, yes, I know the thread is old but I don't care)


I think I might have to raise the BS flag on this one. In TN, it's illegal for frogs to croak after 11 PM. That's just rediculous. No one, in their right mind, could come up with this law. It's beyond funny or have-to-be-there for it to apply- you can't make a law about frogs! It could be something about having frogs as pets, but methinks some important details have been left out of most of these things.

[Jonneh]

That whole 'No abortions' thing!
Oh snap!

[Indignant]

jonneh?!


snap homie.

[MoeMag]

[Target Practice]

Every gun law in California.

Hooray!

[Sniper1]

Every gun law in California.

Hooray!

lol but you could buy a CA Legal AK47 thats like buying a BMW but the engine is a honda :)

[Target Practice]

lol but you could buy a CA Legal AK47 thats like buying a BMW but the engine is a honda :)

lol no u cant lol