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lee n. field

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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #25 on: April 24, 2013, 01:44:25 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on April 24, 2013, 12:56:47 PM
Not sure why they just don't design an "air" gun to work that way  ???

It's been done.  Details in "Gas and Spring Guns of the World" (an old book).  Didn't work all that well on purpose.
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #26 on: April 24, 2013, 01:45:20 PM »
I would so buy any airgun that had a flame jet emerge from the barrel every time I fired off a pellet.
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #27 on: April 24, 2013, 08:51:03 PM »
Would deliberate deiseling make it a "firearm" in places that use an explosion or chemical reaction as the defining characteristic?
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #28 on: April 24, 2013, 10:34:48 PM »
Quote from: Matthew Carberry on April 24, 2013, 08:51:03 PM
Would deliberate deiseling make it a "firearm" in places that use an explosion or chemical reaction as the defining characteristic?

Not legally different than a muzzleloader, since there isn't a fixed self-contained cartridge.
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #29 on: April 25, 2013, 05:26:26 AM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on April 24, 2013, 10:34:48 PM
Not legally different than a muzzleloader, since there isn't a fixed self-contained cartridge.

Going the other way, I wonder if you could detonate oil with a percussion cap ???
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2013, 06:21:45 AM »
^ They did.
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2013, 10:43:28 AM »
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #32 on: April 28, 2013, 01:42:43 PM »
And then there is this guy...

http://now.msn.com/william-daniel-lloyd-injured-hunting-squirrel-with-bb-gun

Tape a real bullet to the muzzle of a crossman 760 and then fire, the BB detonated the primer.  It worked out about as well as one would imagine.
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Re: Murder by BB gun
« Reply #33 on: April 28, 2013, 07:46:05 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on April 28, 2013, 01:42:43 PM
And then there is this guy...

http://now.msn.com/william-daniel-lloyd-injured-hunting-squirrel-with-bb-gun

Tape a real bullet to the muzzle of a crossman 760 and then fire, the BB detonated the primer.  It worked out about as well as one would imagine.

"There is no report on the squirrel's condition."    =D
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