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X_Digger

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20. Tell me you're not serious.

Reply to bluestate10 (Reply #18)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 12:38 AM

Dec 2012

If a person can make a rocket from scratch, then any iron pipe would serve as a launcher (a la mortar tube).

What, you think that the launcher imparts a special flavor of deadly?!?

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] sasha031 Dec 2012 OP

Yeah, just try and conceal-carry that one and you'd sell it too NoOneMan Dec 2012 #1

What total bullshit ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #2

They're called launchers. Doesn't that mean they can be loaded and re-loaded for launching? nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #6

Those are single-use launchers NickB79 Dec 2012 #13

That seems incredibly wasteful NoOneMan Dec 2012 #16

They're not very heavy, no. X_Digger Dec 2012 #21

Maybe a large bong? krispos42 Dec 2012 #23

Holder for knitting needles? Squinch Dec 2012 #34

Just an empty tube, at this point - designed to be discarded after use. OneTenthofOnePercent Dec 2012 #7

Can you reload them? NoOneMan Dec 2012 #9

No ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #25

Yes Jim Warren Dec 2012 #11

The Launcher is not like a condom, use it once and throw it away. bluestate10 Dec 2012 #15

Do you even know what kind of launcher this is? NickB79 Dec 2012 #24

Hunters never know when they will have to shoot down a freakin' flying reindeer... Agnosticsherbet Dec 2012 #3

"Rocket Launchers" are just empty tubes with a battery and a button. X_Digger Dec 2012 #4

But it's good press. nt NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #5

A person that know what he or she is doing can build a rocket to fire out of the bluestate10 Dec 2012 #18

Tell me you're not serious. X_Digger Dec 2012 #20

If someone has the know-how to build a rocket NickB79 Dec 2012 #22

BATF and everybody who know about them disagrees ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #28

Maybe a bottle rocket sarisataka Dec 2012 #32

That's like netting a Coelacanth Loudly Dec 2012 #8

If there were two turned in, you can bet there a lot more hidden away.... OldDem2012 Dec 2012 #10

They are empty worthless tubes ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #27

For a gun buyback to work it has to be no questions asked, no names taken. bluestateguy Dec 2012 #12

Oh and I bet they are wondering, wondering.... LeftInTX Dec 2012 #35

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Gun makers love gun turn-in programs that destroy old guns. krispos42 Dec 2012 #17

And? It's an empty AT4 launcher tube NickB79 Dec 2012 #19

Bet that HK ends up in a policeman's trunk former-republican Dec 2012 #26

The wood on that M14 has some nice grain patterning NickB79 Dec 2012 #29

Post removed Post removed Dec 2012 #31

It is nice former-republican Dec 2012 #33

If not him, the man with the smoke wrench and anvil... Brother Buzz Dec 2012 #30

did I end up in a gun forum by accident? sasha031 Dec 2012 #36