Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ohio has a ban too? The company that makes these is based in Ohio lol

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    • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not a ban, a restriction. Like California, you need a permit.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok new life goal. Be that guy at the DMV with a permit for a flamethrower arguing with the civil servant that “because it is cool” is a valid reason

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course they are…

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    flamethrower aren’t considered weapons by the government

    Considered firearms.

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    • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No they’re not. The ATF does not consider flamethrower a firearm and there exists no country wide law about flamethrower, and by law, even a felon can own a fully working flamethrower.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right. I’m saying that you wanted to use the term “firearm”, not “weapon”.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    California allows roofers to have flamethrowers. They use them for curing something in the roofing tiles(? I don’t know the proper term for those things. They’re basically cardboard covered in tar and gravel, possibly a thin layer of asphalt?).

    It was a bit unnerving the first few times I heard the roofers doing their thing.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re called asphalt shingles.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok how the hell did Ohio limit flamethrowers? We’re the Florida of the north

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    • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apparently the company is even based here in Cleveland

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Didn’t expect Cleveland felt more dayton with the whole lunatic idea with military applications thing

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But… why?

  cartoon gopher peeking up out of his hole

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  • mriguy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, the question is why not?

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The next question is whether they can stick a couple chemical tanks with variable-flow fuses on that thing to inject into the stream so that they can get RGB flames.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where’s the robot to clean up the flaming, decapitated gopher carcasses off my lawn?

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They have an app for that now. It’s like Uber but somehow even treats their “contractors” in a worse fashion. It’s called Flameaway.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where’s the robot to clean up the flaming, decapitated gopher carcasses off my lawn?

      Not needed, because they get flamed while they’re in their burrows underground. So all you have to do is plug up the holes after the bot comes out and you’re done.

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• NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because, Awesome!

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Screw those states, flamethrowers are awesome and I want to see more of them.

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