Slingshots

[Admin]

A friend of mine runs TheSlingShot Channel and I figured you guys would appreciate his work.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AySuafZ8to[/ame]

 

[Cogsy]

Very cool, but slingshots are one of the many 'weapons' illegal to possess in Western Australia. You guys in the US get to have all the fun .

 

[mu38&Bg#]

I love that channel! He has a lot of fun, and his accent and laugh make it whole.

 

[AussieJimG]

Lots of fun. The way life should always be.

Jim

 

[Admin]

Very cool, but slingshots are one of the many 'weapons' illegal to possess in Western Australia. You guys in the US get to have all the fun .

Why are they illegal?

I love that channel! He has a lot of fun, and his accent and laugh make it whole.

I've never got to talk to him over the phone but I agree, his accent is great.

Lots of fun. The way life should always be.

Jim

I don't know how he finds the time. I would love to see some pics of his shop.

 

[Cogsy]

Why are they illegal?

I have no idea. We live in a 'nanny state' here. The only slingshot legal to possess (apart from the Nerf ones) have to be homemade for use by a minor. So rubber bands on a fork of a branch is OK, as long as you are UNDER 18...

It's also very difficult to obtain a firearm here (not impossible though) and extremely hard to get, and keep, a handgun. Fireworks for public use are limited to hand held sparklers, nothing that goes bang.

Signal cannons, air cannons, spud (potato) guns, all banned.

I dream of moving to the U.S. one day, where you have a great deal more freedom than we do. I also dream of watching the Sox smash the Yankees at Fenway but that's another story.

 

[Swifty]

Al, it's the same over here in the eastern states. We had a lot of fun as kids with fireworks, but I suppose that there were too many accidents with them, so the government banned them. You can still get then in Canberra though. Even air rifles need a permit and a licensed owner to use them. The nanny state has gone too far again. ( to our non Australian members, a nanny state is where the government behaves like your grandmother, and won't let you have anything that may hurt you)

Paul.

 

[Tin Falcon]

( to our non Australian members, a nanny state is where the government behaves like your grandmother, and won't let you have anything that may hurt you)

To some extent the US government and states do the same thing. And I expect UK and Europe as well. Cant let the little children harm themselves or each other.

Cant help but wonder if things like the airplane would have ever been invented if the people like the wright brothers had to follow current law.
Tin

 

[Admin]

I have no idea. We live in a 'nanny state' here. The only slingshot legal to possess (apart from the Nerf ones) have to be homemade for use by a minor. So rubber bands on a fork of a branch is OK, as long as you are UNDER 18...

It's also very difficult to obtain a firearm here (not impossible though) and extremely hard to get, and keep, a handgun. Fireworks for public use are limited to hand held sparklers, nothing that goes bang.

Signal cannons, air cannons, spud (potato) guns, all banned.

I dream of moving to the U.S. one day, where you have a great deal more freedom than we do. I also dream of watching the Sox smash the Yankees at Fenway but that's another story.

So wait. If you're carrying a slingshot on your 18th birthday you can get in trouble?

 

[Swifty]

So wait. If you're carrying a slingshot on your 18th birthday you can get in trouble?

That's about right, prohibited weapon.

Paul.