Thursday, April 15, 2010

Dangerous Assault Nerfs

In another attack on the NTRA, the City of Charleston, Illinois recently expanded an ordinance barring the discharge of firearms and other projectiles within city limits. Including this:

It reads:
WEAPONS: A. Discharge of Weapons: It shall be unlawful to discharge any firearm, air gun, BB gun, pistol, cannon, toy gun, bow, mechanically drawn bow, or any type of mechanical device projecting pellets, arrows, missiles or projectiles, leaden or otherwise or any other type of missile excepting in a regularly established shooting gallery or unless fired or discharged for ceremonial purposes with a weapon that may cause a report but does not deliver a projectile capable of causing serious injury and with the approval of the Chief of Police;
So your kids playing in the yard w/ their Nerf guns are now breaking the law. Those toy bow and arrows I bought my kids on the way back from AZ last year? Might as well toss them. Don't want my kids to be hardened criminals at the ripe age of 6.

Do legislators ever actually READ these things before they pass them?


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6 comments:

Linoge said...

The national "representatives" obviously do not - why would the local ones?

Anonymous said...

Hmm, wouldn't that cover nailguns as well?

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

"Do legislators ever actually READ these things before they pass them?"

Normally, my response would be "nope!" However, this is Illinois, so it could be intentional.

Stuart the Viking said...

I went to HighSchool in Charleston Illinois. I don't think I have ever been more glad to have escaped that place than I am today. The sad thing is, it wasn't such a bad place to live. The people are nice, it's big enough that you don't have to travel to another city just to buy groceries, but small enough that you don't have all the usual big city crap. Or at least that was how it was when I lived there.

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Cargosquid said...

Goodbye homemade slingshots.

Oh, and don't shoot a paper clip from a rubber band wrapped around your fingers.

BWM said...

That nerf longshot pictured above? Awesome. My 5 year old and I have dart wars from across the yard with them. Fortunately not in Illinois