MD rushes to regulate new fangled weapon

swinokur · Jul 20, 2016

http://wtop.com/maryland/2016/07/maryland-rushes-to-regulate-hunting-with-new-fangled-weapon/

danb · Jul 20, 2016

Airbow: 160 foot lbs energy with 375 gr arrows @ 450 FPS

My crossbow: 130 ft lbs energy (fpe) with a 450 grain arrow @ 375 FPS. I can hit a 4" circle at 50 yards (also: it's a bullpup and OAL is 34" same as airbow).

Some crossbows now are 150 fpe.

The law may require them to regulate these as air guns because guns! but seems to me that they are just fancy crossbows**.

... and now I have another thing on my list of things I must have.

** And if they want to encourage people to kill more deer in Central maryland they should allow them as crossbows during archery season.

jc1240 · Jul 20, 2016

Wicked (as in neat) looking thing. Liberal head will explode when they start seeing it.

28Shooter · Jul 20, 2016

That is very cool!

teratos · Jul 20, 2016

Other than cosmetic features (ahem, Maryland), how is this a cross between a high powered rifle and a crossbow? It's more like an air rifle that shoots a long pointy pellet.

LONGSHOT · Jul 20, 2016

now i might be able to use my 10/22 arrow gun with nailgun blanks.i got mine 10 yrs. ago from swivel machine.they also made one out of a paint gun.his patent must have ran out,now anyone can make them.his paintbal model was used in vandam movie.

tkd4life · Jul 20, 2016

Interesting... I guess DNR is looking to regulate this as a "firearm". I wonder would this be considered a "firearm" from the ATF's perspective?

Vic · Jul 20, 2016

It's just a Benjamin Bulldog shooting arrows rather than .357 pellets. Can you convert back to the air rifle?
Vic

Kashmir1008 · Jul 20, 2016

Great - just what we need: Ghost bows - That right there has the ability with a .30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 arrows within half a second. Thirty magazine clip in half a second.

swinokur · Jul 20, 2016

squirrels said:
1000 internets for the first person who designs one that can fire semi-automatically from a detachable magazine.

It's not the 1950s any more...who the hell still says, "new-fangled"??

I was brought up in the fifties, and it seems the writer of the AP article was.as well. So the answer is WE DO.

Just cuz it's old doesn't mean we should stop using something.

K31 · Jul 20, 2016

More like a speargun that uses air. You can see the newness of this technology in the movie Thunderball circa 1960's.

swinokur · Jul 20, 2016

This knife was featured on an episode of Law and Order SVU.

Stuck knife in the perp, pushed the button-presto spaghetti.

https://www.knifecenter.com/item/WIWASPKA/WASP-Injection-Knife-5-14-inch-Blade-Neoprene-Grip

Inigoes · Jul 20, 2016

tkd4life said:
Interesting... I guess DNR is looking to regulate this as a "firearm". I wonder would this be considered a "firearm" from the ATF's perspective?

It's not from the ATF perspective, DNR has always looked at knock down power.

It's always been in the regulation for deer hunting:
"Air rifles that develop a muzzle energy of 1,200 foot pounds may be used for deer hunting."

http://www.eregulations.com/maryland/hunting/firearms-deer-hunting-regulations/

eruby · Jul 20, 2016

Stoic58 · Jul 20, 2016

A manually-operated repeater version of this would have zombie/SHTF usefulness. Projectiles could be crafted about as easily as regular arrows. Then you just need compressed air.

I can picture a gravity-feed box magazine on top of an air arrow-launcher, something like the feed mechanism of the ancient Chinese repeating crossbow:

Adolph Oliver Bush · Jul 20, 2016

"The agency is proposing to expand its definition of air guns to include those that fire arrows. The weapons would be permitted for hunting deer during the muzzleloader and conventional firearm seasons. They would also be legal during black bear season."

A regulation that expands the allowable use of a weapon. That is the kind of regulation that I can live with......

Jim12 · Jul 20, 2016

What about this old fangled weapon?

GunnerGunz · Jul 20, 2016

Jim12 said:
What about this old fangled weapon?

That is not a weapon, it is an extra long smoking device used by tribal Peruvian witch doctors for medicinal purposes (he has glaucoma).

MigraineMan · Jul 20, 2016

MoCo still considers it a firearm, just like Nerf guns, because it propels a projectile by any means imaginable.

(yes, a rubber band on the end of your finger constitutes a 'firearm' in MoCo.)

Jim12 · Jul 20, 2016

GunnerGunz said:
That is not a weapon, it is an extra long smoking device used by tribal Peruvian witch doctors for medicinal purposes (he has glaucoma).

lol. Picture cropped off the end -- blowgun.

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