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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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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In most if not all states, if you have an AAA membership, you can do your DMV stuff at AAA offices and dodge the DMV entirely.

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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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