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In reply to the discussion: 2 Rocket Launchers and 75 assault turned in during LA exchange [View all]Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)41. These are non-destructive, non-reusable tubes. You can buy them in any state.
It's worth clearing up the misconception that those used tubes are anything dangerous in some kind of explosive or destructive sense.
When you asked:
Holy hell why do people on our streets have military grade rocket launchers?
I got the feeling that you didn't understand that these things are completely inert and unusable as weapons or destructive devices. They are the kind of thing one finds at a military surplus store, a flea market, gun shop or gun show. When I was younger I was staying with my sister for the summer and her husband used to bring me to the gun shows in the area. You can find endless items like those rocket launcher tubes or dummy/training rounds for all kinds of weapons and even munitions, such as cluster-type bomblets or things of that nature.
These are essentially "art". Non-functioning, non-destructive, non-usable militaria.
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2 Rocket Launchers and 75 assault turned in during LA exchange [View all]
Ichingcarpenter
Dec 2012
OP
While batons (for civilians) and nunchucks and other 'small' weapons are illegal in California
AZ Progressive
Dec 2012
#33
The one in the picture is as much a rocket launcher as a scabbard is a sword. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#43
Fuck you Charlie Beck. Fuck you Villaraigosa. Here's some quick, telling insight into those assholes
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#2
I really thought I would be in and out of the police station in five minutes with no guns.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2012
#44
These are non-destructive, non-reusable tubes. You can buy them in any state.
Poll_Blind
Dec 2012
#41