desidog
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I was in West Marine getting ready for the sailing season, and this occurred to me... The Coast Guard requires visual safety aides - flares - on boats over 26 feet.
Obviously, this needs clarification, but bear with me. Grenade launchers were banned already in CT, but now they've added "flare launchers." So, either all CT boaters will have to declare their flare guns, and passing through CT waters will get RI boaters in the clink....or, if i read the law to the letter, only semi-auto grenade and flare launchers are banned, in which case an M-79 should be legal to own (after DD paperwork.) But they're not....
To further confused the situation, most any 12ga. could shoot a 12ga. flare...
Rationally, boaters won't get arrested for having a safety device required by Federal law, but this new AWB is not rational. The two laws conflict.
How do you read it? Is West Marine an illegal arms dealer now?
Obviously, this needs clarification, but bear with me. Grenade launchers were banned already in CT, but now they've added "flare launchers." So, either all CT boaters will have to declare their flare guns, and passing through CT waters will get RI boaters in the clink....or, if i read the law to the letter, only semi-auto grenade and flare launchers are banned, in which case an M-79 should be legal to own (after DD paperwork.) But they're not....
To further confused the situation, most any 12ga. could shoot a 12ga. flare...
Rationally, boaters won't get arrested for having a safety device required by Federal law, but this new AWB is not rational. The two laws conflict.
How do you read it? Is West Marine an illegal arms dealer now?