The yo-yo was the first choice of the Spartans in the phalanx formations. The yo-yo was subsequent banned by international law. Rule one of the yo-yo ban: Never speak of the yo-yo ban. Even Japan signed the ban. But, they secretly issued them to the ninja. That’s what made the ninja so deadly. To hide their use of the yo-yo, ninja would plant shurikens stuck in the bodies were the yo-yo struck. That is why shurikens are now banned in some countries. They need to know if yo-yos are being used. The more you know. As a side note, a blow gun is what fired the magic “bullet” that killed Kennedy. That’s the real reason Canada banned blow guns.
Better to use pins for sewing, tape, and yarn plus 3 straws. Cut a short slit in two of the straws so they can go over the end of another without crimping the straw then tape them together. Now for the pins, yarn, and tape you cut a 1 to 1.5 bit of yarn and fold it in half then insert the pin in the fold and roll the fold between your fingers to make it taper down then use the tape to secure to the pin with the fat end the same diameter as the straw. Last get out a dart board and have fun trying to get a bullseye. Yeah used to do that as a kid.
+Tim Stahel (Moustached Viking) Let's ban hands, legs, arms and teeth, they can bludgeon, choke, cut, slap and scratch. Don't forget about the Nerf guns, and rocks too.
The weapon's purpose is to injure, its made and created to be that. The human users are the one with the intention. No clap would be made if you try to do it with one hand
@@JA-sn1or funny story, in a D&D game, I had an enchanted axe that did just that. It spoke telepathically to my character and told him, "do it", "you can take this guy", and other such things. Of course, that was in a make believe fantasy GAME, which the Canadian courts seem to not be able to differentiate.
oh the horror of mass blowings... One can barely walk down the street without people coming out of the woodwork to just blow them, randomly. Oh the humanity...
Wait...Australia banned "hollow wooden tubes"? ...Why did we (I'm Australian) ban _didgeridoos_? The cultural, traditional instrument of many Aboriginal tribes?
because they are cisgendered white patriarchal nazis? unless of course it is only illegal for white people, you know cause you need privilege to be responsible for your actions.
@@satannstuff Well with just the right technical expertise, one could in theory turn a nuclear bomb (or the parts making up one) into a reactor to produce energy, but that would be a very small percentage of individuals, and still incredible difficult to actually do.
Banned in Guatemala, Canada, Australia. . . These are all countries with native peoples who use blowguns for subsistence. Could dominating the first nations be the real reason for these bans?
Aboriginal Australians, as far as I'm aware, didnt make use of blowguns. Their main weapons/tools were clubs, spears and the boomerang. They had some pretty bloody deadly spears.
@@Pepperoniman776 I have never heard of a Canadian Native of any tribe using a blowgun, unless it was metal and the gasses wear caused by a small explosion that was set off by a primer. Seriously though, there are a lot of exemptions for natives anyways, they don't have to follow our (that is white people) hunting laws and can fish using projectiles. This is how we try to make up stealing all their shit, they get to fish more, I think you have to live on a reservation to qualify or something, which is a horrible den of inequity (in the literal, not comedic sense, boil the water first). So Cherokee seem to be the most northern tribe that use blowguns, they are actually in California, Oklahoma and the Carolinas, so southern US. Make it out of river cane, they have a bunch on it actually, fairly cool. There are some tribes that use them in "SE Asia", but I can't find anything more specific. That region blends a bit with Oceania, Australia is on the wrong end though.
Most weapon laws are mostly written for the poor and indigenous minorities. If they have a specific or affordable way to have a weapon it’s most likely illegal only because it can be used against the powers that be. They’re scared. Law driven by fear.
Butterfly knifes, i can't get one because they are iligal. You can carry a pocketknife up to 28 centimeters in total length and it can have a spring so you can open it with one hand in less than a second. But a knife that twirls? No, thats too scawy.
Minecraftdemon99 The blade does not spin. The handles spin around the blade. What the blade does it the same kind of movement the normak pocket knives do.
+theSollundForYou if blowguns are so ineffective i doubt indians would have bothered using them instead of just throwing the dart. BEsides its only meant as a means to deliver poison anyways. Cant really see the physical damage you could do with a toothpick
+Dorfanable 1) Blowguns were first designed for small game hunting. they were loaded with pebbles or clay balls. 2) Darts were introduced later with poison for hunting large game or assassinations. 3) the main factor is range. a dart, pebble, etc. can fly 40+ meters, while arm thrown darts sail 20-30 meters.
Leadanvil yes but throwing a dart is much harder and requires more skill to hit propperly. Im not really defending its ban. Im just providing a thought on why its a dangerous and deadly thing.
+rubbers3 I wouldn't be surprised if there's still a box of projectiles stored at the attic from my childhood days at my parents' home. We used to make them out of a page of tv guide/whatever else was printed and no longer needed, cut 3 long strips out of them roll it up and glue the tip to gether so its a long pointy thing and then cut the back off at roughly the diameter of electrical tubing. Kinda funny thinking how it's probably still up there in a box now that I'm over 30 years old but really who wants to clean up the shit that is stored at an attic? Too much work easier to keep piling up the boxes until its full and preferably never ever look at them again unless you really need something that you know is up there "somewhere". Oh and for short range during our experiments we discovered if you get the right type of nails and get them glued stuck into the tip that works pretty well too! Don't make them too heavy though they won't fly well anymore. Also don't mix those up with the "safe for shooting at other people as long as they are wearing eye protection" piles because they will hurt :D
rubbers3 Saliva works as well and will make the projectiles I mentioned above stay in shape, at least for a few shots but they won't survive being stored for a few days well. It was convenient for us to have a few boxes of ammo ready to use at a later time and long term it does save a bit of time using your dads paper cutting machine to quickly turn a tv guide or other similarly a4 shaped piece of paper into strips then efficiently making them into projectiles and when a good pile has been made cut them off. But your method is familiar to me as well, I think we started with that at some point until these projectiles proved to be more consistent especially for longer distances. I vaguely recall having made contraptions as well with multiple electrical tubing (so that you're not limited to one shot!) taped to a thing with wooden handles all nicely filed/sanded to hand ergonimics. That may actually have been what motivated me at least to learn the basics of using woodworking tools. Saw the right length of planks off, attach handles with nails, do most of the shaping with various files (flat, round, triangular depending on what is needed) and then finally use some sandpaper that was always around somewhere. Can't say my skills have gotten far from what I picked up in those early days but I know enough about the basics to make something that isn't pretty out of wood but strong enough and functional.
as an English guy, when I went to America I went to gun shop and wanted to shoot a single action revolver (you know the one, ocelot). but due to being under 21 I was only able to shoot an assault rifle, large m16. seems baffling to me that one must be older to use a 6 shot manual cock pistol than a full auto assult rifle :s
I doubt that it was full-auto. Most M-16s you see in the US are only semi-auto since full-auto weapons are heavily regulated at the federal level. In other words, same method of operation as those M-1 Garands that were carried during WWII. The reason they are so popular in the US is because they are practically as heavy as a nerf gun and have only slightly more recoil, making them great guns for novice shooters. Keyword: "Novice". There's also the fact that full-auto weapons are harder to control so I doubt they would be the only thing allowed to under-21 buyers.
+Eboreg2 my mistake. I clearly am a novice and assumed full auto was when you hold the trigger and it shoots continuously. they said if I was 21 I could of had any other gun, I was 2 months away. so I think it was more of a legal thing. not complaining, it was still fun
This reminds me of the time I was in high school and one of my friends had an art project and brought a piece of PVC piping to school so she could make the rest in class, cuz she couldn't do it at home (For valid reasons). During lunch break, she, another friend and I were out in the "Shady" part of the campus, where it was just us 3, goofing around, being 14-15 year old idiots. We were kinda playing around with the PVC a bit, acting as if it was a sword. It wasn't sharpened in any way. It was a hollow plastic tube and it wasn't even that sturdy, it was covered in duct tape so it was kinda softened too. A security guard came up with their golf cart (Yes they have their own vehicles lol) and started telling us to stop messing around, and said to the girl something like "Are you intending to use that pipe as a weapon?" She obviously said no, it was for an art project, but he didn't believe her and took her into the principal's office. The art teacher had to be called in and had to verify to the security guard it in fact was for a project. Something as simple as a plastic tube can be mistaken for a weapon lol... I can probably identify 100 things in my room right here that can be used to kill or injure but are not intended as weapons.
"In Canada, the blowgun is classified as a prohibited weapon and is defined as any device that "being a tube or pipe designed for the purpose of shooting arrows or darts by the breath".[4] Any imported blowgun must be deactivated by either drilling a hole or by blocking it." lmao, what the heck is wrong with those people who decide such nonsense
I never understand the point of making weapons illegal because of murders... If someone is desperate enough to murder someone is an illegal weapon going to stop them?
Not to mention that Home Depot sells everything you need to make these illegal weapons. Power tools, hammers, pipes, etc. You can make an gun out of anything they sell there.
Availability and familiarity of weapons can indeed facilitate murder, especially if "passional" (i.e. not thought twice). Some of the highest murder rates happen among hunter-gatherers, because well, they have weapons at hand, are used to kill (at least animals) and have no law enforcement beyond personal or collective revenge. And that in spite of their collectivistic and peacenik high ideals. Said that I'm still in favor of controlled right to have weapons at home and even bear them (that part is a bit more tricky) because I'm persuaded it's the ultimate barrier against tyranny. That won't prevent people to misusing them though but it's a con I'm willing to live with for the sake of freedom.
@I AM ALIVE !!!!! if the govermemt is tyranical doesnt matter how many weapons do you have they will have more and better, or do you think you can destroy a tank with a gun?
@@guairefernandezamil4084 Exactly. Pretending like you can actually defend yourself from your goverment today is just fucking ridiculous. "Oh, you have a thousand rounds and several guns? That's adorable, we'll just drone strike your house."
You asked a rather complicated question there. I agree that illegalizing things is not really a solution. If i want to hurt (or even kill) someone, i don´t require weapons to do so, i served in military (the little Austria has...) and know how to use my head for killing. Means i can think of ways to injure or kill with things that are not weapons, even my own hands. But at the same time, limiting the usage of certain things to spezialized persons with a certain schooling/diploma/training makes perfectly sense.
I only discovered this channel a few days ago, but it has become one of my favourites. Skall really comes off as reasonable, amusing, friendly, and pretty well informed and knowledgeable. I'm not much of a weapons collector (I've only got a Hanwei Katana which I bought on a whim years ago and didn't know what the heck I was doing with it, for shame), and I'm for gun regulation and the like. But I agree that responsible collectors and even just the average not-insane casuals should not be restricted on the basis of 'because reasons'. If someone screws up and hurts themselves, that's on them. If I managed to chop my own arm off somehow, I wouldn't blame the government by saying "But why didn't you save me from myself?!?!" I actually did look into blow guns some years ago, only to find out they were illegal in Canada (which is where I live as well). I'm not some nut seeking to torture squirrels, cats, or dogs. I just wanted something fun to play with when I was bored. But nope, my impromptu parade was rained on. It's not the first time I've been disappointed. I was also curious about switchblades at one point. "Oh hi officer in my yard, I'm just minding my business, blowing some darts into a wooden/cardboard target, what are you up to?" "Ruining your day" "But why?!?" "You own a pipe and some pointy bits of metal." "Ooooook then." *glances at his sword* "What about that?" "That's A-OK!" "Riiiiiiiight." Banning slingshots would make more sense (but would still be ridiculous), and I remember playing with one from time to time when I was a lad. I got it from Canadian Tire, as i recall. BTW: I recall that you were not terrible impressed with your Mosin-Nagant. I'm not much of a gun guy, but if I ever got one, it would probably be one of those. Relatively cheap because they were mass produced to the point of a large surplus, historical significance (more than one well known sharpshooter used one), etc. I'd get one with a scope (one that hadn't been 'adjusted' like some of the old ones had been, or rather had been fixed. I think it was because they were given to inexperienced soldiers and the adjustment was intended to improve the chance of hitting center mass when they aimed at their target's head?). I vaguely recall seeing one with a scope that was going for about $900 Canadian? Or $1200? Something around there.
+Chris Bradshaw In italy it's illegal to hunt with a rifle that has a bayonet under the barrel... If you take off the bayonet, it's ok, with the bayonet on it's illegal
Interesting. A decent bow can shoot an arrow 150-200 meters far and still manage deep enough penetration to wound or maim. And it's not as noisy as a firearm! Not as easily concealable though.
Pieter-Jan The law has actually just changed! Now a knife is legal most places up to 12 cm. And at any length at your private property. But yes, bows legal, slingshots are not.
Just want to add that we have licences for weapons, so even though it is illegal to own without the proper papers, you can still easily get weapons for collecting, sports & hunting. All you have to do is pay a fee, pass a background check and have a safe way to store them. So not totally unreasonable but just annoying for lawful people... but on the other hand we don't have an epidemic of people shooting each other.
+anonymous man Doesn't Japan ban private ownership of all weapons, katana or otherwise? I know they historically banned all but samurai from owning weapons, so that samurai could kill at will without risk of retaliation. (because... honor?)
+BaseDeltaZero Japan didn't ban shit. The terms of their surrender after Japan lost WWII was complete disarmament. Of course, at the time, Japan couldn't be trusted with weapons anyway, but I think if they had the choice, they'd probably stay a disarmed people.
+aednil If you'd instead label it as a "tool" because then afterwards you can harvest the rocks and ore I'm sure it'd be all good! And if the government does complain well... you could accidentally misfire on them right?
+drowmonk I was just about to say that -- let's not forget the 5d6 sneak attack damage. Everyone knows a rogue doesn't really care that much about his weapon's damage die. That's why they can use daggers without sucking.
+Teddy Boragina Nope, I've actually had this video on my to-do list for months. I always found this ban stupid, even though I have no interest in blowguns.
+Teddy Boragina is right, this law is not stupid at all, +Skallagrim ... Now let me drink my tea with my perfectly legal stra...OMFG A WEAPON! MY STRAW IS NOT LEGAL. +Teddy Boragina hope you understand now.
+Lion Reichelt I´m sure pommels will get banned soon. Anything you can possibly throw at someone should be banned. Ban pebbles, ban any kind of ball, ban water, ban atoms, ban electrons, ban radiation.
Holly shit, I'm a hardened criminal! I built many blowguns for my son when he was small. Concealable too, as they were mostly built with 10 in long straws! OMG!
+Bob Lake omg indeed! first it starts off with small weapons like a blowgun before you know it you will be sending your son to school with a .38 revolver. Hand yourself in before this thing spirals out of control.
I had a blowgun dart hit my girlfriend(not on purpose) it left a small bruise on her leg so I don't see why they would ban them criminals are not going to obey the laws or bans last time I checked there is a law against murder but that still happens everyday I agree with you on the explosive(s) though
Canada sound similar to Australia. I bought some powder designed to help people lose weight or something. It's something that is usually in vitamins anyway. But they didn't label it well enough so I got a letter from customs "we have your white powder please prove what it is because we think its drugs but we can't figure it out, show us all correspondence with the seller" etc etc. I'm just like... I really can't be bothered, it was like $15 and I was saving $5 buying it from overseas. The time involved is not worth the money so I just ignored them. You are exactly right, it is guilty until proven innocent. They are basically admitting their incompetence with a stand of "we can't tell what a drug is so we're stopping everything that looks like drugs to the naked eye". Which is quite disturbing when you think about it, because if that's their stance it's no wonder millions of dollars of drugs get smuggled into the country. It honestly sounds like a piece of piss.
The saying "innocent until proven Guilty" is a misnomer, no such legal founding exists in Australia. It often gets mixed up with the Burden of Proof. Import laws require you to be able to define what you are importing and its use, thus you have the burden of Proof. It is unreasonable to suggest that protection can be obtained by simply ignoring all the things that authorities are new to or unaware of.
Kael Hate I don't think so. Furthermore It would have been extremely easy to forge enough proof for them to let it through. I didn't do it because I have a code of ethics. I know innocent until proven guilty doesn't exist in Australia. But it's not something that gets mixed up with burden of proof, it's saying the burden of proof is specifically on the accused (in the case I'm talking about)... Not sure if that's what you meant, but yes I'm aware. My point was that it's so easy to forge things like that it should not be an option. The technology exists...
5:43 supposedly there was some people doing blowgun drive bys in tucson at some point.. could have just been ripples from the washington one though i suppose. The account i remember involved homemade darts if i remember right
Why would a criminal care if something is illegal ? He is breaking the law any way, will he be like i'm going to use a gun beacause is legal. And if he can poison a dart can't he just poison your food or drink ? And why use a weapon that will be full of you DNA after use so you will need to carry with you until you clean it ???
What is the point of banning blow guns? I mean if I truly wanted to murder someone with a blowgun could I not make a blowgun rather easily with pvc pipe? This is so stupid.
I live in Australia and my little brother and I made a very strong blowgun out of a pvc pipe, duct tape and some hot glue the darts were made out of screws and the heads of silicone tubes they are ridiculously easy to make especially considering my brother was 8 at the time when we made these and all the materials are readily available not only that but we tested out the pipe before modifying anything to it and it was still just as strong as the finished blowgun obviously since it doesn't really matter what we changed because it was still just a hollow tube you could find in plenty of stores
haha we used to make them in grade 7 in Nova Scotia out of pvc conduit and moms sewing pins pushed through the ereaser from a pencil with some yarn threads to seal it in the tube and help it fly lol.
+Max Harris But... what's the point 0_o? Maybe a rather bizare geo-engineering project... But it would probably not work. If you want practical uses of nukes, other than, well, intimidation... it's pretty good a caping oil/gaz leaks at drilling sites, or potentially deflecting asteroids.
***** No. Something is only radioactive if the material inside the asteroid itself releases radiation, exposing it to radiation isn't enough. A nuclear bomb produces both energy and radiation in parallel, using nuclear reactions. However,the radiation isn't produced by the energy, just the nuclear reactions themselves. As you obviously know, the source of energy in an asteroid impact just comes from it's kinetic energy. The only radiation you will get from that is heat and light (Maybe U.Vs if it get's hot enough, but not sure about that).
I do agree its stupid to ban blow guns. But the presumption of innocence is always true in Canada. An easy exemple is finger print. You CAN argue in court that finger prints are not unique and so you are not guilty even if they found your prints on the murder weapon. But then its up to you to prove it. Not to the court to prove that finger prints are incriminating. On a side note, US customs have banned Kinder Surprise eggs. They are considered dangerous. In a country that allows open carry of AK-47 in an airport.
MiningwithPudding It depends on what state. And no you wont get shot in the parking lot, there is a viral video of someone actually arguing with security his right to carry his rifle in the airport. You just cant try to board the airplane with it.
lol, this was my favorite toy as a kid, we would get pvc pipes and made darts out of paper, just paper and we would play with them. no one got hurt from them for generations in my hood. We would make teams and play like you would play with air soft, laser tag, etc.
+Riles Mattix oh man im subbed to joerg since 2011 i didnt miss any of his videos he's so badass. he haves a nice concept tough but the rifle with a iron canister that he made is much better than the coke bottle
Its like knife laws in NY for instance. Be it hunting, fishing or even kitchen knives. Even if you're literally out fishing, it's happened to quite a few people, they get charged with possession of an illegal weapon and also have the knife confiscated, just for using it for it's intended purpose and not breaking any other laws. Technically, if you go to a store and buy a kitchen knife set and the blades are longer than 3 inches or whatever the limit is, you get pulled over by police and they see the knives you purchased in your back seat, you can hypothetically be charged with possession of an illegal weapon, and then it's up to you to go to court and prove they weren't weapons. It's pure insanity.
+linus smith which is why since people started making blowguns, some folks would go out of their way to engineer safeties that prevented such a thing from happening, or be mindful enough during the usage of the blowgun and possess the right amount of responsibility and knowledge to NOT hurt themselves carelessly. Darwinism is as Darwinism does.
thedaryl Again I understand this but the reason or one of the reasons that was given was kids inhaling the darts I have no opinion as to the banning of the dart gun.
+Josiah Mann Also as a kid I made a couple of blow guns. you really need 6-8 feet in length to achieve any significant accuracy and hunting distance. I used it to hunt sparrows but never got any. lol
Canada customs once took a pencil sized medieval flail that i had bought in Vegas at Excalibur i think. I just stood there in disbelief as they explained. I knew about the ban on flails but that still blew my mind.
When I was a kid we used to have real good blowguns: a meter long aluminium pipes, about 10 mm in diameter. Great for shooting improvised darts we fashioned out of timothy-grasses, totally harmless. Are they ready to control the selling of ordinary aluminium pipes in hardware stores?
I'm in total agreement about the ban, and that intent matters, and that in the rare case that someone would try to kill someone with a nonstandard weapon, (such as a blowgun or crossbow or something) it would just make the murder all the less effective and more easy to trace back to the perp. However, I slightly disagree about nuclear bombs having only two purposes. They were also considered for demolition of nonliving structures/landscapes.
Your speaking common sense my friend , which unfortunately is a dying trait in a person nowadays. At least the more perceptive of us know this ban is too stupid to make up. It’s sad really . 😔keep up the good work skallagrim 🍻 I would never have known this otherwise.
I'm surprised you didn't mention spitballs for obvious reasons. And also pellet guns that can shoot darts. I had one as a kid. Same principal but with compressed air.
I am for gun control and weapon control in general, but damn... this is getting out of hand. When I say gun control, I don't mean "take away the gun", I mean have the gun registered and have the owner go trough training on how to safely operate the gun. Edit.1: Ironically, Blow-guns are designed to be used with poison darts. Because the darts by themselves are not likely to kill anything larger than a rabbit.
its also extremely hard to find or make a poison that would be effectve on humans in a small enough dosage to be delivered by a blow gun. maybe if youre shooting syringes full of something but youd need a bolt that was heavy enough to push the plunger so youd need a bow probably
On the topic of nukes, I have heard of a space ship design where a nuke was ejected from the ship and detonated a short distance away. This process would be repeated to propell the ship on the shock waves.
Hi skall, I live in toronto and i am a blowgun enthusiast (ha ha), and i just recently found out of the ban. I enjoy it as recreation but recently realized that there aren't nor will there be any blow gun competitions in my country. its ridiculous
You should make more rants, very entertaining!^^ And yes, this is true, I own antique swords and I own a crossbow, but I'd never hurt people with them.,actually I'm extremely careful when it comes to anything you could use to hurt someone, having a weapon doesn't automatically make you a reckless criminal.
im in the UK and have a blow gun, ( so called blow gun) its a pipe with a mouth piece that can be used to fire darts. I have shot pigeons with it and concrete walls, plaster board walls, wood and cardboard and my conclusions are i would much rather 100% be hit by a blow gun dart than a gun or knife or well any other illegal weapon. A blow gun is not used on people it just isn't My one for example only cheap but still it may cause bleeding or infection if untreated but death no. Aslong as the wound is treated (the very very tiny pin prick wound) then all is fine. Its just stupid. Anyone can make a blow gun out of a damn pipe, paper and nails it isn't difficult why are police wasting time on blow gun when there are guns and knives on the streets. Deal with them. P.S. Great video Keep it up as always skallagrim :)
Damn... and I complaining about Argentina, where they put millions of obstacles and rape your pocket to have a miserable carbine 22, but we have no legal problems or restrictions with any other things, as long as it is not a firearm. But well, as they say here, as long as they do not see it, it is not illegal. After all, it's just a pipe ._.
Something i think is absurd about de question of baning weapons: here in Brasil it was recently banned the Acetone (nail polish remover) because it apparently can be used to craft bombs.
I have a foam sword I made for nerf, it’s made of pool noodle and 1/2” pvc. The pommel is a 1/2” slip to 3/4” threaded adapter. By its nature it can fit and fire a nerf dart with a decent pop and the pommel acts as an embouchure. The law (in Canada, not my state) states it’s an illegal weapon. PVC pipe intended for use in toy combat is illegal in Canada.
haha this is hilarious :D and thanks a lot btw, this video reminded me of the great times I had as a child when my father gifted me a blowgun for my birthday. It was made of two seperate...well... tubes... connected via a handle. The darts were simply small metal sticks with a plastic thingy at the end. You couldn't call it fletching, really. But with a little practice even with this it was possible to get some relatively accurate shots over some meters.
"I'm so offended by those hollow wooden tubes" I lost it there.
+Fuhrer Pingas
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BAN ALL TREES, STICKS CAN BE SHARPENED!
EXACTLY WE THOUGHT THE SAME
no we must ban everything becoas you can use rock as weapon or dirt as flashbang when you throw it to someones face
I agree
You have to ban people because people can kill other people!
Ralakus you' re a... a... a FUCKING GENIUS
Hey i got this gun.
-Ok.
I also got this wooden tube.
-Cant have it. Its a dangerous weapon.
why?
well I'm not proving your innocence.
Hello is this the police?
Yes, someone's got a wooden tube
Snoop Azlan SWAT on the way. Go get him!
call the feds i have a bag of drinking straws in my kitchen. You can use them to fire small objects with the breath.
looks like plumbers are going to get arrested.
The yoyo was created as a weapon..... :o
It should be banned immediately
B A N
The yo-yo was the first choice of the Spartans in the phalanx formations.
The yo-yo was subsequent banned by international law.
Rule one of the yo-yo ban: Never speak of the yo-yo ban.
Even Japan signed the ban. But, they secretly issued them to the ninja. That’s what made the ninja so deadly. To hide their use of the yo-yo, ninja would plant shurikens stuck in the bodies were the yo-yo struck. That is why shurikens are now banned in some countries. They need to know if yo-yos are being used.
The more you know.
As a side note, a blow gun is what fired the magic “bullet” that killed Kennedy. That’s the real reason Canada banned blow guns.
Straight to jail
How to make an illegal assault weapon - step 1: take a drinking straw step 2: put in a buckwheat grain
Better to use pins for sewing, tape, and yarn plus 3 straws. Cut a short slit in two of the straws so they can go over the end of another without crimping the straw then tape them together. Now for the pins, yarn, and tape you cut a 1 to 1.5 bit of yarn and fold it in half then insert the pin in the fold and roll the fold between your fingers to make it taper down then use the tape to secure to the pin with the fat end the same diameter as the straw. Last get out a dart board and have fun trying to get a bullseye. Yeah used to do that as a kid.
JETWTF Your way is useful and sensible but my way is art.
CHEMICAL WEAPONRY!
Let's ban kitchen knives, forks and all other utensils. Actually, let's ban everything sharper than pillows!
+Rush4in Pillows are used to asphyxiate people.
+Tim Stahel (Moustached Viking) Let's ban hands, legs, arms and teeth, they can bludgeon, choke, cut, slap and scratch. Don't forget about the Nerf guns, and rocks too.
+AVicious Hunter I can use my own hard skull to bludgeon you!
+Rush4in what about blunt trauma? ban all stones and sticks. also water people can drown in it lol
+Rush4in my pillow corner poked me in the eye once..... they must be banned! haha
no, not the pipe, anything but the pipe! so terrifying
This explains the war on drugs.
+юрий игкк Just look at Mario. That man is fucked up beyond belief, and he uses pipes CONSTANTLY.
+The Rez (GhoulTV) I think I'd be more afraid of the club aspect of a pipe than the darts coming out of it.
+The Rez (GhoulTV) You could pipe smoke a joint in there...
+The Rez (GhoulTV) The only thing more terrifying is the stick, mainly because of potential (unconsented) rectal rupture.
It's the weapons fault. NEVER the user's fault! The user was coerced into using the weapon BY the weapon!
The weapon's purpose is to injure, its made and created to be that. The human users are the one with the intention. No clap would be made if you try to do it with one hand
I can feel the sarcasm in this one
Just like this beer made me drink it.
Weapon: "do it"
@@JA-sn1or funny story, in a D&D game, I had an enchanted axe that did just that. It spoke telepathically to my character and told him, "do it", "you can take this guy", and other such things. Of course, that was in a make believe fantasy GAME, which the Canadian courts seem to not be able to differentiate.
So if a kid shoots spitballs at his teacher, is that assault?
Not arrows or darts.
+Sasha Kubichka stop proving that child's innocence! he needs to prove it himself........ *kid looks up..... cries*
Riles Mattix On second thought, you're right. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS YOU DISRESPECTFUL BRAT!!!
Let's not forget that they use pens for that so ban pens
T.A.D G.R Pencils are, famously, often sharpened to an extremely sharp point, which then breaks off inside the victim's flesh. So ban pencils.
"A kitchen knife could do more damage potentially."
Don't worry they banned those too.
oh the horror of mass blowings... One can barely walk down the street without people coming out of the woodwork to just blow them, randomly. Oh the humanity...
Shannon Barger id like to blow someone
Saw this typo in a headline once: "This soldier blew himself to save his friends. Here's what he looks like now."
@@roadhouse6999 "A soldier blew his enemies to stay alive"
Reminds me of a video I saw the other day.
Wait...Australia banned "hollow wooden tubes"?
...Why did we (I'm Australian) ban _didgeridoos_? The cultural, traditional instrument of many Aboriginal tribes?
Because the Australian government considers them to be offensive, offensive weapons that is.
PokeMaster22222 becuase fuck our polititions mate.
Aboriginals use fired sticks as weapons too, we should ban sticks as well.
because they are cisgendered white patriarchal nazis? unless of course it is only illegal for white people, you know cause you need privilege to be responsible for your actions.
Because politicians want to be reelected, so they need to act like they're doing something the general public is ok with.
"You cannot use a nuclear bomb recreationally".... that is the funniest statement I've heard all day, excellent.
Challenge accepted.
@@satannstuff Well with just the right technical expertise, one could in theory turn a nuclear bomb (or the parts making up one) into a reactor to produce energy, but that would be a very small percentage of individuals, and still incredible difficult to actually do.
I lost it at recreational atomic bombs...i think i've found a new hobby.
+CycloSarin There are soooo many viable targets actually...People would be okay with it....I think....In some points...
+Terrorkekx I could make a nuclear powered wave pool!
+CycloSarin well elon musk wanted to use nukes to terraform mars...
Dont ride the bomb! (in the spirit of Dr. Strangelove) ....
+Samson Wu There was also a suggestion years ago to use nukes for space travel, but the fallout returning to Earth would have been a problem.
Banned in Guatemala, Canada, Australia. . . These are all countries with native peoples who use blowguns for subsistence. Could dominating the first nations be the real reason for these bans?
You pretty much nailed it, at least in the case of Guatemala. Not sure if natives in Canada and Australia traditionally use those types of weapons.
Aboriginal Australians, as far as I'm aware, didnt make use of blowguns. Their main weapons/tools were clubs, spears and the boomerang. They had some pretty bloody deadly spears.
@@Pepperoniman776 plus us Australia people's are more likely to snort stuff through the blowgun in the first place bcs we stoopid
@@Pepperoniman776 I have never heard of a Canadian Native of any tribe using a blowgun, unless it was metal and the gasses wear caused by a small explosion that was set off by a primer. Seriously though, there are a lot of exemptions for natives anyways, they don't have to follow our (that is white people) hunting laws and can fish using projectiles. This is how we try to make up stealing all their shit, they get to fish more, I think you have to live on a reservation to qualify or something, which is a horrible den of inequity (in the literal, not comedic sense, boil the water first).
So Cherokee seem to be the most northern tribe that use blowguns, they are actually in California, Oklahoma and the Carolinas, so southern US. Make it out of river cane, they have a bunch on it actually, fairly cool. There are some tribes that use them in "SE Asia", but I can't find anything more specific. That region blends a bit with Oceania, Australia is on the wrong end though.
Most weapon laws are mostly written for the poor and indigenous minorities. If they have a specific or affordable way to have a weapon it’s most likely illegal only because it can be used against the powers that be. They’re scared. Law driven by fear.
Butterfly knifes, i can't get one because they are iligal. You can carry a pocketknife up to 28 centimeters in total length and it can have a spring so you can open it with one hand in less than a second. But a knife that twirls? No, thats too scawy.
yep. daddies and mommies in the local assembly reprensentative will spanked you, rightly
The knife is intended to be twirled this means the blade spins and you could hurt yourself. The government needs to protect you from your self
Minecraftdemon99 The blade does not spin. The handles spin around the blade. What the blade does it the same kind of movement the normak pocket knives do.
Artrysa well-that is one scawy knife l.o.l
Nurlinda F Sihotang Exactly! But it's still illegal for some stupid reason. It's more a toy than it is a knife.
i think regular darts that you throw on dartboards are more effective weapons than blowguns
+theSollundForYou Even more effective: skip the darts altogether and just whack 'em with the pipe. xD
indeed
+theSollundForYou if blowguns are so ineffective i doubt indians would have bothered using them instead of just throwing the dart. BEsides its only meant as a means to deliver poison anyways. Cant really see the physical damage you could do with a toothpick
+Dorfanable
1) Blowguns were first designed for small game hunting. they were loaded with pebbles or clay balls.
2) Darts were introduced later with poison for hunting large game or assassinations.
3) the main factor is range. a dart, pebble, etc. can fly 40+ meters, while arm thrown darts sail 20-30 meters.
Leadanvil
yes but throwing a dart is much harder and requires more skill to hit propperly. Im not really defending its ban. Im just providing a thought on why its a dangerous and deadly thing.
In my school years we used to blow pieces of paper through the pen's tube. Sooo... Thug life, gangsta wars?
+rubbers3 lot of children did that x), i also did that when i was alot younger ;)
+rubbers3 I wouldn't be surprised if there's still a box of projectiles stored at the attic from my childhood days at my parents' home. We used to make them out of a page of tv guide/whatever else was printed and no longer needed, cut 3 long strips out of them roll it up and glue the tip to gether so its a long pointy thing and then cut the back off at roughly the diameter of electrical tubing.
Kinda funny thinking how it's probably still up there in a box now that I'm over 30 years old but really who wants to clean up the shit that is stored at an attic? Too much work easier to keep piling up the boxes until its full and preferably never ever look at them again unless you really need something that you know is up there "somewhere".
Oh and for short range during our experiments we discovered if you get the right type of nails and get them glued stuck into the tip that works pretty well too! Don't make them too heavy though they won't fly well anymore. Also don't mix those up with the "safe for shooting at other people as long as they are wearing eye protection" piles because they will hurt :D
ToKeepTrackOfRandomSubs Holy shit, you took it to annother level :O We just tore a piece of paper from a notebook and "glue" it with saliva xD
rubbers3 Saliva works as well and will make the projectiles I mentioned above stay in shape, at least for a few shots but they won't survive being stored for a few days well.
It was convenient for us to have a few boxes of ammo ready to use at a later time and long term it does save a bit of time using your dads paper cutting machine to quickly turn a tv guide or other similarly a4 shaped piece of paper into strips then efficiently making them into projectiles and when a good pile has been made cut them off.
But your method is familiar to me as well, I think we started with that at some point until these projectiles proved to be more consistent especially for longer distances. I vaguely recall having made contraptions as well with multiple electrical tubing (so that you're not limited to one shot!) taped to a thing with wooden handles all nicely filed/sanded to hand ergonimics.
That may actually have been what motivated me at least to learn the basics of using woodworking tools. Saw the right length of planks off, attach handles with nails, do most of the shaping with various files (flat, round, triangular depending on what is needed) and then finally use some sandpaper that was always around somewhere.
Can't say my skills have gotten far from what I picked up in those early days but I know enough about the basics to make something that isn't pretty out of wood but strong enough and functional.
+rubbers3 Oh hey there, Johan Hegg.
as an English guy, when I went to America I went to gun shop and wanted to shoot a single action revolver (you know the one, ocelot). but due to being under 21 I was only able to shoot an assault rifle, large m16.
seems baffling to me that one must be older to use a 6 shot manual cock pistol than a full auto assult rifle :s
+Liam Noble
Yeah, that is quite bizarre.
I doubt that it was full-auto. Most M-16s you see in the US are only semi-auto since full-auto weapons are heavily regulated at the federal level. In other words, same method of operation as those M-1 Garands that were carried during WWII. The reason they are so popular in the US is because they are practically as heavy as a nerf gun and have only slightly more recoil, making them great guns for novice shooters. Keyword: "Novice". There's also the fact that full-auto weapons are harder to control so I doubt they would be the only thing allowed to under-21 buyers.
+Eboreg2 my mistake. I clearly am a novice and assumed full auto was when you hold the trigger and it shoots continuously. they said if I was 21 I could of had any other gun, I was 2 months away. so I think it was more of a legal thing. not complaining, it was still fun
+Liam Noble can't edit comments on my phone, just wanted to add it was Michigan Detroit
Liam Noble What? How? And it actually was full-auto? Uh ... buh ...
I give up.
This reminds me of the time I was in high school and one of my friends had an art project and brought a piece of PVC piping to school so she could make the rest in class, cuz she couldn't do it at home (For valid reasons). During lunch break, she, another friend and I were out in the "Shady" part of the campus, where it was just us 3, goofing around, being 14-15 year old idiots. We were kinda playing around with the PVC a bit, acting as if it was a sword. It wasn't sharpened in any way. It was a hollow plastic tube and it wasn't even that sturdy, it was covered in duct tape so it was kinda softened too. A security guard came up with their golf cart (Yes they have their own vehicles lol) and started telling us to stop messing around, and said to the girl something like "Are you intending to use that pipe as a weapon?" She obviously said no, it was for an art project, but he didn't believe her and took her into the principal's office. The art teacher had to be called in and had to verify to the security guard it in fact was for a project. Something as simple as a plastic tube can be mistaken for a weapon lol... I can probably identify 100 things in my room right here that can be used to kill or injure but are not intended as weapons.
"In Canada, the blowgun is classified as a prohibited weapon and is defined as any device that "being a tube or pipe designed for the purpose of shooting arrows or darts by the breath".[4] Any imported blowgun must be deactivated by either drilling a hole or by blocking it."
lmao, what the heck is wrong with those people who decide such nonsense
+LKVideos Block the hole with a finger, like it's a flute LMAO.
+Mathaius833 Isen't liberalism about rights? That you can be free to do whatever you want unless it hurts others. Like smoking weed and shit.
I'm planning to buy a claymore for itching relief purposes
"Front towards back"
@@jjtomecek1623 i know im 3 years late to this one, but i dont think thats the kind of claymore they meant XD
Have they banned straws? I can launch a mean wad of paper that could hit someone in the eye and cause injury.
+Evirthewarrior Damn that's a biological projectile I'm sure the US army invaded Iraq over similar weapons.
+Matt Bartholomew Thanks, now the mental image of Iraqi soldiers using straws and wads of paper against the US soldiers is stuck in my head.
+Mister Babadook hahahaha
give or take some has
+Evirthewarrior No, they banned paper
+Evirthewarrior Those straws you get at McDonald's basically come with munition.
"Hey, have you got a license for that?"
OMFG THE DILDO LINE IM DYING
Make a dildo launcher that's powerful enough to break ribs see what the libtards think
so if i made a dart gun that was powered by compressed air it would be legal in Canada
+Jon J hmm, that's a good point.
Being i live in texas i can get a dart gun a Walmart. if i hooked up a co2 tank to a tube its legal, but my own lungs is ilegal..... hail Canada
+Jon J "You'll put you eye out!"
Its ok because i have 2 of them
Jon J Get glasses -suddenly 4 to work with :D
I'm pretty sure baseballs, bats, and hockey sticks are more dangerous than blowguns...
+Noah Weisbrod And easier to use
stupid ass blind liberals think that the more exotic the weapon is the more efficient it is at killing. they completely ignore facts.
Akamaholic
That's how people are in general. It's human nature to be cautious of and assume the worst about things that seem unknown.
+Akamaholic Actually not liberals my friend, the big issue is with this "Progressives" that are the exact opposite of liberals.
***** wat
"Instead of blowing band guns..." -Skall, 2015
I never understand the point of making weapons illegal because of murders... If someone is desperate enough to murder someone is an illegal weapon going to stop them?
Not to mention that Home Depot sells everything you need to make these illegal weapons. Power tools, hammers, pipes, etc. You can make an gun out of anything they sell there.
Availability and familiarity of weapons can indeed facilitate murder, especially if "passional" (i.e. not thought twice). Some of the highest murder rates happen among hunter-gatherers, because well, they have weapons at hand, are used to kill (at least animals) and have no law enforcement beyond personal or collective revenge. And that in spite of their collectivistic and peacenik high ideals.
Said that I'm still in favor of controlled right to have weapons at home and even bear them (that part is a bit more tricky) because I'm persuaded it's the ultimate barrier against tyranny. That won't prevent people to misusing them though but it's a con I'm willing to live with for the sake of freedom.
Ryjak Yep, nothing has killed more people than Blunt Force Trauma!
@I AM ALIVE !!!!! if the govermemt is tyranical doesnt matter how many weapons do you have they will have more and better, or do you think you can destroy a tank with a gun?
@@guairefernandezamil4084 Exactly. Pretending like you can actually defend yourself from your goverment today is just fucking ridiculous. "Oh, you have a thousand rounds and several guns? That's adorable, we'll just drone strike your house."
Honestly, was that mix-up intended or acutally accidental? Because your "blowing banguns" almost blew ME off my chair.
You asked a rather complicated question there.
I agree that illegalizing things is not really a solution. If i want to hurt (or even kill) someone, i don´t require weapons to do so, i served in military (the little Austria has...) and know how to use my head for killing. Means i can think of ways to injure or kill with things that are not weapons, even my own hands.
But at the same time, limiting the usage of certain things to spezialized persons with a certain schooling/diploma/training makes perfectly sense.
+Sim. Frischh
That was intentional. :)
+Sim. Frischh ban hands?
+Rumi Can´t do that, all the massagists would be jobless. And the handcrafters. And the pickpocketeers.
that was a joke
You're suggesting I wouldn't be allowed to make a nuclear bomb propelled rocket? (Aka Project Orion)
+Christian Gerefalk
You know, usually I use them to sterilise larger field of fungus infected wheat. It works quite well. :-D
+Vojtěch “Mortis” Ptáček Can I borrow it? I need to sterilize some shit! lol
As a trans blowdart, I find this oppression horribly offensive.
I only discovered this channel a few days ago, but it has become one of my favourites. Skall really comes off as reasonable, amusing, friendly, and pretty well informed and knowledgeable.
I'm not much of a weapons collector (I've only got a Hanwei Katana which I bought on a whim years ago and didn't know what the heck I was doing with it, for shame), and I'm for gun regulation and the like. But I agree that responsible collectors and even just the average not-insane casuals should not be restricted on the basis of 'because reasons'. If someone screws up and hurts themselves, that's on them. If I managed to chop my own arm off somehow, I wouldn't blame the government by saying "But why didn't you save me from myself?!?!"
I actually did look into blow guns some years ago, only to find out they were illegal in Canada (which is where I live as well). I'm not some nut seeking to torture squirrels, cats, or dogs. I just wanted something fun to play with when I was bored. But nope, my impromptu parade was rained on. It's not the first time I've been disappointed. I was also curious about switchblades at one point.
"Oh hi officer in my yard, I'm just minding my business, blowing some darts into a wooden/cardboard target, what are you up to?"
"Ruining your day"
"But why?!?"
"You own a pipe and some pointy bits of metal."
"Ooooook then." *glances at his sword* "What about that?"
"That's A-OK!"
"Riiiiiiiight."
Banning slingshots would make more sense (but would still be ridiculous), and I remember playing with one from time to time when I was a lad. I got it from Canadian Tire, as i recall.
BTW: I recall that you were not terrible impressed with your Mosin-Nagant. I'm not much of a gun guy, but if I ever got one, it would probably be one of those. Relatively cheap because they were mass produced to the point of a large surplus, historical significance (more than one well known sharpshooter used one), etc. I'd get one with a scope (one that hadn't been 'adjusted' like some of the old ones had been, or rather had been fixed. I think it was because they were given to inexperienced soldiers and the adjustment was intended to improve the chance of hitting center mass when they aimed at their target's head?). I vaguely recall seeing one with a scope that was going for about $900 Canadian? Or $1200? Something around there.
I literally made a blow gun today. I didn't realise I'm now a criminal.
Remember: It's only illegal if you get caught.
slings are banned in some states, they're just a strip of leather. Nanny state's fucked up.
let me guess its illegal in the people's Republic of California.
yup
it's also illegal to hunt with a sling in missouri iirc.
+Chris Bradshaw In italy it's illegal to hunt with a rifle that has a bayonet under the barrel...
If you take off the bayonet, it's ok, with the bayonet on it's illegal
+magic1wizard I used to live in CA, and they got really suspicious when I bought a TOY slingshot. I freakin' hate California.
Gabriele Magnabosco Do Italians actually use bayonets to hunt deer? If you would do that it would logically be cheaper to go back to spear hunting.
*Blighttown flashbacks*
Not like this...
Not like this
! TOXIC !
Ah, I see youre a man of culture as well.
Blighttown
Do i even want to know what that is?
You don't.
@@spartanwar1185 you don't, dear god
here slingshots and any blade longer then 7 cm is illegal. but bows and arrows are not...
Even though bows are basically super slingshots...
Where is "here" by the way?
MiningwithPudding Denmark
Interesting. A decent bow can shoot an arrow 150-200 meters far and still manage deep enough penetration to wound or maim. And it's not as noisy as a firearm! Not as easily concealable though.
Pieter-Jan
The law has actually just changed! Now a knife is legal most places up to 12 cm. And at any length at your private property.
But yes, bows legal, slingshots are not.
Just want to add that we have licences for weapons, so even though it is illegal to own without the proper papers, you can still easily get weapons for collecting, sports & hunting.
All you have to do is pay a fee, pass a background check and have a safe way to store them.
So not totally unreasonable but just annoying for lawful people... but on the other hand we don't have an epidemic of people shooting each other.
11:24 you came dangerously close, there.
He tried, he really did, but it was too late.
He *C* *A* *M* *E*
Canada: Not that hard to get a gun if it’s capacity is 5 or less
Also Canada: IS THAT A HOLLOW STICK
They can never ban the katana. If legislature ever tried, the soul of the moonlords would smite them instantly.
+SpliefDaGrief
I'm imagining an army of neckbeards marching on parliament with their 100$ katanas.
+MrPanos2000 But if you use a straight sword, then it's totally ok.
+anonymous man
Doesn't Japan ban private ownership of all weapons, katana or otherwise? I know they historically banned all but samurai from owning weapons, so that samurai could kill at will without risk of retaliation. (because... honor?)
+BaseDeltaZero Japan didn't ban shit. The terms of their surrender after Japan lost WWII was complete disarmament. Of course, at the time, Japan couldn't be trusted with weapons anyway, but I think if they had the choice, they'd probably stay a disarmed people.
I was reffering to the weapons bans which existed before the Black Ships ever arrived, so...
because politicians are so childish they think the ban hammer is a toy
So I can't have a recreational Death Star?
+JimPlaysGames its just for blowing up unpopulated solar systems >.>
+JimPlaysGames why shouldn´t you be able to have a death star? there are so many uninhabited planets that you could destroy with it recreationally.
+Xenibalt far too remote to make an effective demonstration.
+aednil If you'd instead label it as a "tool" because then afterwards you can harvest the rocks and ore I'm sure it'd be all good! And if the government does complain well... you could accidentally misfire on them right?
+ToKeepTrackOfRandomSubs not sure I'd want to risk that. I'd end up getting screwed right up the exhaust port.
Pah, you jest now, but wait till my rogue rolls a 20 while handling his blowgun.
+Sir Evilmustache and causes incredible 1d4x2 +4 damage!
TheGobbomage
*Hits the orc in his big toe, making him stumble down the ladder, taking all of his friends with him.
+TheGobbomage You forgot to add in the d6s for sneak attack damage. :)
+drowmonk I was just about to say that -- let's not forget the 5d6 sneak attack damage. Everyone knows a rogue doesn't really care that much about his weapon's damage die. That's why they can use daggers without sucking.
+Sir Evilmustache Nope. Sorry good sir, you Fumbled (1).
Why do I think these "silly weapon law" videos are always a day after skal tried to get some neat weapon but was told they don't ship to Canada
+Teddy Boragina
Nope, I've actually had this video on my to-do list for months. I always found this ban stupid, even though I have no interest in blowguns.
Skal only buys pommels
+Lion Reichelt The only way to end your enemy rightly, of course!
+Teddy Boragina is right, this law is not stupid at all, +Skallagrim ...
Now let me drink my tea with my perfectly legal stra...OMFG A WEAPON! MY STRAW IS NOT LEGAL.
+Teddy Boragina hope you understand now.
+Lion Reichelt I´m sure pommels will get banned soon. Anything you can possibly throw at someone should be banned. Ban pebbles, ban any kind of ball, ban water, ban atoms, ban electrons, ban radiation.
Also people have died from food poisoning yet food is still legal?! WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS END!!!
I mean, poisonous food isn't, there are in fact quite a lot of regulations to deal with food, pretty much everywhere in the world.
@@Lowlandlord it is really easy to poison food that has already been made and passed the FDA and other regulations
Holly shit, I'm a hardened criminal! I built many blowguns for my son when he was small. Concealable too, as they were mostly built with 10 in long straws! OMG!
+Bob Lake omg indeed! first it starts off with small weapons like a blowgun before you know it you will be sending your son to school with a .38 revolver. Hand yourself in before this thing spirals out of control.
+Bob Lake
Please state Your address, and wait in front of Your house with hands up, police officer will be there shortly.
+jhjkhgjhfgjg jgjyfhdhbfjhg What about legs? and he can blow the officers full of paper
TheShadow960
He can blow the officer, but only if he is a gay, and so the officer.
jhjkhgjhfgjg jgjyfhdhbfjhg
That's assault.
I am offended by blowguns, because it ruins my self esteem.
+fxDELTAx blowguns trigger me
I had a blowgun dart hit my girlfriend(not on purpose) it left a small bruise on her leg
so I don't see why they would ban them
criminals are not going to obey the laws or bans
last time I checked there is a law against murder but that still happens everyday
I agree with you on the explosive(s) though
I ordered my first blowgun in a catalog when I was 16. Had steel darts and everything! Fun fun toy.
Canada sound similar to Australia. I bought some powder designed to help people lose weight or something. It's something that is usually in vitamins anyway. But they didn't label it well enough so I got a letter from customs "we have your white powder please prove what it is because we think its drugs but we can't figure it out, show us all correspondence with the seller" etc etc. I'm just like... I really can't be bothered, it was like $15 and I was saving $5 buying it from overseas. The time involved is not worth the money so I just ignored them. You are exactly right, it is guilty until proven innocent. They are basically admitting their incompetence with a stand of "we can't tell what a drug is so we're stopping everything that looks like drugs to the naked eye". Which is quite disturbing when you think about it, because if that's their stance it's no wonder millions of dollars of drugs get smuggled into the country. It honestly sounds like a piece of piss.
The saying "innocent until proven Guilty" is a misnomer, no such legal founding exists in Australia. It often gets mixed up with the Burden of Proof. Import laws require you to be able to define what you are importing and its use, thus you have the burden of Proof. It is unreasonable to suggest that protection can be obtained by simply ignoring all the things that authorities are new to or unaware of.
Kael Hate
I don't think so. Furthermore It would have been extremely easy to forge enough proof for them to let it through. I didn't do it because I have a code of ethics. I know innocent until proven guilty doesn't exist in Australia. But it's not something that gets mixed up with burden of proof, it's saying the burden of proof is specifically on the accused (in the case I'm talking about)... Not sure if that's what you meant, but yes I'm aware. My point was that it's so easy to forge things like that it should not be an option. The technology exists...
so... are straws banned?
In California...yes...but wildfires are legal...so are date rape drugs aparently
Yes, turtles man
man, this ban blows my mind
5:43 supposedly there was some people doing blowgun drive bys in tucson at some point.. could have just been ripples from the washington one though i suppose. The account i remember involved homemade darts if i remember right
what about an artillery gun 175 mm howitzer. that could be used for recreational purposes. A little pricey but imagine the fun??!!
I agree
Why would a criminal care if something is illegal ? He is breaking the law any way, will he be like i'm going to use a gun beacause is legal. And if he can poison a dart can't he just poison your food or drink ? And why use a weapon that will be full of you DNA after use so you will need to carry with you until you clean it ???
For videos like these I wish I had two thumbs :(
+Europe Channel
How did you lose your other thumb?
+Skallagrim lel
***** blow tube accident... I don't really like talking about it
+Europe Channel
That blows.
+Europe Channel =DDDD i can't stop laughing
Officer: what is that?
Me: plumbing..
Officer: what are those?
Me: plumbing darts.
that dildo part killed me xD
th-cam.com/video/1D37IIjXT0E/w-d-xo.html
"You cannot use a nuclear bomb recreationally!"
You sure? Kim Jong Un does it all the time ^^
He's using a nuke as a self-defense (self = North Korea)
What is the point of banning blow guns? I mean if I truly wanted to murder someone with a blowgun could I not make a blowgun rather easily with pvc pipe? This is so stupid.
I live in Australia and my little brother and I made a very strong blowgun out of a pvc pipe, duct tape and some hot glue the darts were made out of screws and the heads of silicone tubes they are ridiculously easy to make especially considering my brother was 8 at the time when we made these and all the materials are readily available not only that but we tested out the pipe before modifying anything to it and it was still just as strong as the finished blowgun obviously since it doesn't really matter what we changed because it was still just a hollow tube you could find in plenty of stores
Real talk though, they're banned because of Teemo.
MusicMakesYouBraver fucking teemo
I'm glad I live in Georgia and can just buy whatever weapons I want.
Custom: Hey! Your face is illegal!
Some guy: wtf? No!
Custom: Proove it.
"what law does it break?"
haha we used to make them in grade 7 in Nova Scotia out of pvc conduit and moms sewing pins pushed through the ereaser from a pencil with some yarn threads to seal it in the tube and help it fly lol.
you could use a nuke to turn a dessert to glass :)
+Max Harris To turn a *desert* into glass, not a dessert. But it would be radioactive. What about a meteor ?
+Max Harris But... what's the point 0_o? Maybe a rather bizare geo-engineering project... But it would probably not work.
If you want practical uses of nukes, other than, well, intimidation... it's pretty good a caping oil/gaz leaks at drilling sites, or potentially deflecting asteroids.
***** That is where I got the Idea
***** No. Something is only radioactive if the material inside the asteroid itself releases radiation, exposing it to radiation isn't enough.
A nuclear bomb produces both energy and radiation in parallel, using nuclear reactions. However,the radiation isn't produced by the energy, just the nuclear reactions themselves.
As you obviously know, the source of energy in an asteroid impact just comes from it's kinetic energy. The only radiation you will get from that is heat and light (Maybe U.Vs if it get's hot enough, but not sure about that).
deflecting asteroids for terraforming purposes?
I do agree its stupid to ban blow guns. But the presumption of innocence is always true in Canada. An easy exemple is finger print.
You CAN argue in court that finger prints are not unique and so you are not guilty even if they found your prints on the murder weapon. But then its up to you to prove it. Not to the court to prove that finger prints are incriminating.
On a side note, US customs have banned Kinder Surprise eggs. They are considered dangerous. In a country that allows open carry of AK-47 in an airport.
You can openly carry an AK-47 in airports here? I... don't think we're talking about the same U.S....
Legally, you can.
In reallity, you will be killed in the parking lot.
MiningwithPudding It depends on what state. And no you wont get shot in the parking lot, there is a viral video of someone actually arguing with security his right to carry his rifle in the airport. You just cant try to board the airplane with it.
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I have repurposed a nuclear bomb as an efficient paperweight. And it is a collecter's item LOL =P
You still have paper?! ;)
CSharp LOL I'm more worried about if I'll still be able to breath tomorow due to the radiations. Forget about the paper LOL!!!
lol, this was my favorite toy as a kid, we would get pvc pipes and made darts out of paper, just paper and we would play with them. no one got hurt from them for generations in my hood.
We would make teams and play like you would play with air soft, laser tag, etc.
Blowguns are legal were i live and i can confirm that we dont run around blowing each other.
Lol blowing each other
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HEY GUYS! Its okay, just don't blow the darts with your breath, just use something that blows air.
like a compressor
gatunazo07 yes
+gatunazo07 or hook a canister to the side filled with compressed air. check out the "slingshot channel" for some of his coke bottle "dart guns"
+Riles Mattix oh man im subbed to joerg since 2011 i didnt miss any of his videos he's so badass. he haves a nice concept tough but the rifle with a iron canister that he made is much better than the coke bottle
hook up a blowgun to a bike pump and BOOM! you have created a death machine
You can teraform with nukes :D
Its like knife laws in NY for instance. Be it hunting, fishing or even kitchen knives.
Even if you're literally out fishing, it's happened to quite a few people, they get charged with possession of an illegal weapon and also have the knife confiscated, just for using it for it's intended purpose and not breaking any other laws.
Technically, if you go to a store and buy a kitchen knife set and the blades are longer than 3 inches or whatever the limit is, you get pulled over by police and they see the knives you purchased in your back seat, you can hypothetically be charged with possession of an illegal weapon, and then it's up to you to go to court and prove they weren't weapons.
It's pure insanity.
The reason they where banned in the us was that kids would sometimes inhale the darts and choke on them.
+linus smith kids can choke on everything small, EVERYTHING
Raka Nggaknormal I know that but that was the reason they gave as why they banned them.
+linus smith which is why since people started making blowguns, some folks would go out of their way to engineer safeties that prevented such a thing from happening, or be mindful enough during the usage of the blowgun and possess the right amount of responsibility and knowledge to NOT hurt themselves carelessly. Darwinism is as Darwinism does.
thedaryl Again I understand this but the reason or one of the reasons that was given was kids inhaling the darts I have no opinion as to the banning of the dart gun.
Shit, we better ban food too then.
I think the pipe is more deadly if you hit people with it. LOL
+Josiah Mann Also as a kid I made a couple of blow guns. you really need 6-8 feet in length to achieve any significant accuracy and hunting distance. I used it to hunt sparrows but never got any. lol
Well, what's the point of ANY weapon ban... No weapon has EVER killed anyone, it's always human who kills, weapon is just a tool
Basspro shops in Toronto had cold steel blowguns for sale.
Baseball bats are the technically one of the most dangerous weapons out there, should we ban or require the be registered lmfao
+metaldave1990 they* i should get more sleep lol
Agreed we will ban all the things!
Yo Washington is FUCKING LAME when it comes to weapons laws.
pretty good compare to california.
+Newman Gan california weapon laws make me want to shoot myself. Wait. I'm in California i would have to go to arizona to do that.
It could be worse. We could all be in the UK where BOTH weed and these weapons are illegal at the same time.
Everything is banned in the U.K. A little pin knife is illegal there.
Canada customs once took a pencil sized medieval flail that i had bought in Vegas at Excalibur i think. I just stood there in disbelief as they explained. I knew about the ban on flails but that still blew my mind.
When I was a kid we used to have real good blowguns: a meter long aluminium pipes, about 10 mm in diameter. Great for shooting improvised darts we fashioned out of timothy-grasses, totally harmless. Are they ready to control the selling of ordinary aluminium pipes in hardware stores?
I'm in total agreement about the ban, and that intent matters, and that in the rare case that someone would try to kill someone with a nonstandard weapon, (such as a blowgun or crossbow or something) it would just make the murder all the less effective and more easy to trace back to the perp.
However, I slightly disagree about nuclear bombs having only two purposes. They were also considered for demolition of nonliving structures/landscapes.
"Drive blowings"
Sounds like a good thing if you know what I mean
Your speaking common sense my friend , which unfortunately is a dying trait in a person nowadays. At least the more perceptive of us know this ban is too stupid to make up. It’s sad really . 😔keep up the good work skallagrim 🍻 I would never have known this otherwise.
All your videos are fun to watch, but rants are by far the very best XD
In Queensland New South Wales and Victoria slingshots are banned as well
I'm surprised you didn't mention spitballs for obvious reasons. And also pellet guns that can shoot darts. I had one as a kid. Same principal but with compressed air.
'Blowing each other- shooting darts into each other's skulls.' Almost died!
I am for gun control and weapon control in general, but damn... this is getting out of hand. When I say gun control, I don't mean "take away the gun", I mean have the gun registered and have the owner go trough training on how to safely operate the gun.
Edit.1: Ironically, Blow-guns are designed to be used with poison darts. Because the darts by themselves are not likely to kill anything larger than a rabbit.
its also extremely hard to find or make a poison that would be effectve on humans in a small enough dosage to be delivered by a blow gun. maybe if youre shooting syringes full of something but youd need a bolt that was heavy enough to push the plunger so youd need a bow probably
On the topic of nukes, I have heard of a space ship design where a nuke was ejected from the ship and detonated a short distance away. This process would be repeated to propell the ship on the shock waves.
Blow darts are banned here (Australia) too, well in nsw anyway.
Hi skall, I live in toronto and i am a blowgun enthusiast (ha ha), and i just recently found out of the ban. I enjoy it as recreation but recently realized that there aren't nor will there be any blow gun competitions in my country. its ridiculous
You should make more rants, very entertaining!^^ And yes, this is true, I own antique swords and I own a crossbow, but I'd never hurt people with them.,actually I'm extremely careful when it comes to anything you could use to hurt someone, having a weapon doesn't automatically make you a reckless criminal.
Lol what the.. 2:10 of all the analogies (no pun intended)... I almost died, I just wasn't expecting that it caught me a little off guard... lol
im in the UK and have a blow gun, ( so called blow gun) its a pipe with a mouth piece that can be used to fire darts. I have shot pigeons with it and concrete walls, plaster board walls, wood and cardboard and my conclusions are i would much rather 100% be hit by a blow gun dart than a gun or knife or well any other illegal weapon. A blow gun is not used on people it just isn't My one for example only cheap but still it may cause bleeding or infection if untreated but death no. Aslong as the wound is treated (the very very tiny pin prick wound) then all is fine. Its just stupid. Anyone can make a blow gun out of a damn pipe, paper and nails it isn't difficult why are police wasting time on blow gun when there are guns and knives on the streets. Deal with them. P.S. Great video Keep it up as always skallagrim :)
Damn... and I complaining about Argentina, where they put millions of obstacles and rape your pocket to have a miserable carbine 22, but we have no legal problems or restrictions with any other things, as long as it is not a firearm.
But well, as they say here, as long as they do not see it, it is not illegal. After all, it's just a pipe ._.
Something i think is absurd about de question of baning weapons: here in Brasil it was recently banned the Acetone (nail polish remover) because it apparently can be used to craft bombs.
I have a foam sword I made for nerf, it’s made of pool noodle and 1/2” pvc. The pommel is a 1/2” slip to 3/4” threaded adapter. By its nature it can fit and fire a nerf dart with a decent pop and the pommel acts as an embouchure. The law (in Canada, not my state) states it’s an illegal weapon. PVC pipe intended for use in toy combat is illegal in Canada.
haha this is hilarious :D and thanks a lot btw, this video reminded me of the great times I had as a child when my father gifted me a blowgun for my birthday. It was made of two seperate...well... tubes... connected via a handle. The darts were simply small metal sticks with a plastic thingy at the end. You couldn't call it fletching, really. But with a little practice even with this it was possible to get some relatively accurate shots over some meters.
Weapons often don't kill people, the people kill people.