Friday, April 07, 2017

Not Exactly 'In Common Use at the Time'

When homemade Rube Goldberg contraptions are outlawed... [More]

What a nutjob.  Still, it shows you can't stop the signal.

[Via Neil W]

2 comments:

Henry said...

Interestingly, airguns and black powder guns (antique or modern, law varies) are often NOT on the prohibited list (depending on the laws of various states) for people who are prohibited from buying typical guns. Lewis and Clark traveled across uncharted America, at risk from animals and mobs of unfriendly indigenes, with a repeating airgun as their go-to weapon.

Anonymous said...

I've been reading some of a biography of Frederick Law Olmstead* the
designer of Central Park (NYC) and many other parks.

He was part of those in the North that purchased arms from the anti-
slavery party in Kansas. Not only rifles, but at least one howitzer.
The biography says something about this but I don't remember what.

* Witold Rybzcynski, A Clearing in the Distance.

OT but WR also mentions border-crashing pro-slavery ballot-box stuffers
all the best cycjec