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Can you buy a bazooka in the US?

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"You can just 3d print that" has now become an acceptable argument in any conversation. :colbert:
 
This guy I used to work with a few years ago kept trying to get me to go to Cambodia with him because there was some tourist attraction where you paid them a few hundred bucks and they let you throw a grenade.
 
Newell Steamer said:
There was a dude that oversaw the APAC region from a former employer of mine. His office was in Hong Kong or Singapore and for vacation,.. this dude would fly to Vietnam,.. where he would link up with some guys that he paid, to give him a bazooka and shoot it at cows.

That was pretty fucked up.
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Dude's stress-relief game is on point.
 
I wonder how much a knock-off RPG made in China costs... Everyone in the developing world seems to have one. It's like the AK-47 of the rocket based weapon world.
 
Just be some rural law enforcement office and you can have as many as you want.

Because drugs. And for the children. "FWOOOOOSH"
 
Newell Steamer said:
There was a dude that oversaw the APAC region from a former employer of mine. His office was in Hong Kong or Singapore and for vacation,.. this dude would fly to Vietnam,.. where he would link up with some guys that he paid, to give him a bazooka and shoot it at cows.

That was pretty fucked up.
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Whoa...
 
Imp said:
I wonder how much a knock-off RPG made in China costs... Everyone in the developing world seems to have one. It's like the AK-47 of the rocket based weapon world.
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Contrary to popular belief, Chinese-made weaponry is one of the few things made in China that actually is on average of good quality. The Type 69 is the Chinese improved version of the Soviet RPG-7. It is widely used due to its effectiveness and cheapness, and exported by Norinco.
 
Hell, had a buddy of mine buy a Chinese rip off AK I thik around 1988 for $80 when the first ban went on, I never fired it but didn't look bad.

Kinda weird seeing all these AR15 going for 2 grand these days thinking they were going to get banned again.

I have no use for one anyways, would rather have a good deer or varmint rifle myself.

well pistols too.
 
QuantumPion said:
Uh, I don't think you have to worry about that. Uou can't 3d print chemical explosives and rockets...
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I actually sat in on a webinar a couple months back about 3D printing in biotech and the presenter said he thought it was only a matter of time before we would be able to even print new molecular entities....


I was like "yeah, nooooo, not really, nice try though"
 
uclaLabrat said:
I actually sat in on a webinar a couple months back about 3D printing in biotech and the presenter said he thought it was only a matter of time before we would be able to even print new molecular entities....


I was like "yeah, nooooo, not really, nice try though"
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Eh, over the coming decades, probably in some limited capacities.
 
MongGrel said:
Hell, had a buddy of mine buy a Chinese rip off AK I thik around 1988 for $80 when the first ban went on, I never fired it but didn't look bad.

Kinda weird seeing all these AR15 going for 2 grand these days thinking they were going to get banned again.

I have no use for one anyways, would rather have a good deer or varmint rifle myself.

well pistols too.
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That's the Norinco MAK-90 which is no longer able to be imported to the U.S. and thus commands a price premium versus similar quality AK pattern rifles.
 
uclaLabrat said:
I actually sat in on a webinar a couple months back about 3D printing in biotech and the presenter said he thought it was only a matter of time before we would be able to even print new molecular entities....


I was like "yeah, nooooo, not really, nice try though"
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New techniques offer new opportunities. They do not automatically have superior results.

As far as explosives and the like goes it's hard to imagine a more convoluted, complex and inefficient way to make them.

It would be cool if someone could print large flawless sheets of graphene. I'd be all over that.
 
Maximilian said:
Ya know... of of these:

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Only if it is a pre 1986 product, and after filling out the proper NFA paperwork and paying the 200 dollar tax.
 
2nd amendment means we should be able to carry arms of all sorts. I see nothing that mentions guns only. Katanas, rocket launchers, hand grenades, nuclear submarines etc. The fact that I can't have these things means my rights are being trampled :colbert:
 
BudAshes said:
2nd amendment means we should be able to carry arms of all sorts. I see nothing that mentions guns only. Katanas, rocket launchers, hand grenades, nuclear submarines etc. The fact that I can't have these things means my rights are being trampled :colbert:
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Well, your mind might be blown, but private citizens actually do own all of the above except nuclear submarines.

And no, no one commits crimes with them. Because it costs $$$$$ and lots of time to acquire them legally.
 
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