• MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I thought of making a joke, but then I realized my argument is invalid, because this guy has knife pistols.

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    9 months ago

    These actually exist for some reason. They don’t fire or anything, it’s just a poorly made pocket knife that’s difficult to do anything useful with and it will probably get you shot by the police lol

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      9 months ago

      Ah, ye olde gunblade. Despite being a collector of weird and novelty knives, somehow I still don’t own one of those.

      I will add that one time many years ago, I took an offhanded joke from a forum post (remember those?) and developed a functional rocket propelled machete. I’m certain the video of it is still out there on the early internet somewhere. It was just bodged together out of model rocketry components and a $5 machete from K Mart. Duct tape was involved. It didn’t work very well but it was worth it for the gag.

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          9 months ago

          The rabbit hole in question being why the hell anyone in the government in the '80’s actually believed that these things could “defeat police body armor,” which is why there was a big scare regarding them and they’re now federally regulated.

          Spring loaded ballistic knives are a novelty at best. I’d be far more concerned with a theoretical ne’er-do-well stabbing me normally than pinging a ballistic knife at me with which he only gets one shot anyway.

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      9 months ago

      I can’t help but picture some moron folding up that knife without removing their finger from the “trigger guard” first.

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    9 months ago

    The knives’ handles are bigger than the gun barrel. Does he muzzle load a new knife every time? In a super hero fight?