Helpful or harmful?

[grimjaw]

I haven't been able to listen to everything in this video yet so I'm undecided whether or not this guy is a complete idiot or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uym_YlX1LNw

It seems he's promoting a method for and advocating breaking the law (promoting a way for felons or children to get handguns). However you feel about whether those two groups having firearms, the current law says otherwise. He says he's in California, and says he got all the items he has without an age check. Almost like ripe footage for Brady Bunch educational videos.

jm

 

[Wastemore]

Watching him handle(mishandle?) the firearm in the first 52 seconds tells me all I need to know about the rest of his video.

 

[kingpin008]

I'd like Harmful for $100, Alex. The guy's certainly not doing gun owners any favors with a video like that.

 

[brboyer]

I vote dumb.

But having said that, in many states (and under federal law) black-powder weapons are not legally considered Firearms and are not regulated.

 

[Zack]

Its a firearm IMO, it shoots a projectile. You just need gun powerd and and that other stuff.

 

[Big Boy]

He converted it to fire cartridges with a new cylinder. And...yeah. He's retarded. That video needs to be removed.

 

[Dokkalfar]

Its a firearm IMO, it shoots a projectile. You just need gun powerd and and that other stuff.

You wouldn't happen to be a judge would you? Because if not, your opinion doesn't really matter if the law doesn't define black powders as firearms. Sorry if this seems harsh, but if the law doesn't say its illegal, then it isn't.

That notwithstanding, the guy is still an idiot for posting this. Not something helpful to us.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

probably neither

The who and why sourcing of the video would be interesting, especially the motivation (if any). I don't watch youtube (or MTV Jackass or read VPC "studies" to name wastes of time): I have seen enuf to know they are either braindead stupid, staged or dishonest and a waste of my time and energy. However it would be a perfect medium for staged propaganda promoting a ban on black powder revolvers "readily convertible to killer diller assault weapons capable of bringing down an airliner of refugee orphans".

I grew up in a "low income high crime" neighborhood, have known cops and crooks alike as friends, relatives and neighbors, and my personal experience and everything I have seen and been told by real people from real streets is this: crooks and criminals get armed black market--theft, burglary, fencing, war trophies, smuggling, crooked cops or military, family or friends. I also grew up in a "dry" county meaning rampant bootlegging, so I have no faith in prohibition or other voodoo criminology--scapegoating a symbol and banning it.

Yes, the antis could use this jackass video to promote yet-another-useless-gun-ban. It might work since there there is little criminal black market interest in BP revolvers even if they were converted to fire cartridges.

 

[Art Eatman]

Good summary, Carl.