Dangerous assault weapons are legal; but these are NOT

[zebonaut]

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[NYC_SKP]

1. High Capacity Machine Guns are NOT Legal. Not since the 1934 National Firearms Act.

Don't believe what you see in movies or wherever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

[Unknown Beatle]

3. I read the headline

and watched the video and I failed to see or hear about High Capacity Machine Guns. It reads that dangerous assault weapons are legal and I immediately thought of an AR-15 and those are legal dangerous assault weapons.

[Scootaloo]

5. Maybe thos weapons aren't dangerous?

I don't expect an explanation will be forthcoming.

[NYC_SKP]

11. Click on "Thread Info" button bottom left under the OP...

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0. High capacity machine guns are legal; but these are NOT

And your explanation has been delivered.

[Scootaloo]

18. Ah-HAAA. Well, I guess that makes sense.

[Fred Sanders]

12. "Harmless weapons", the oxymoron the gun folk never get.

[NYC_SKP]

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[Unknown Beatle]

22. Well, I'll be...

I stand corrected.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. TYT is awesome!!!

Thanks for Posting.

[SoapBox]

4. America...where we might be offended by a pair of briefs named Comfyballs...

All while going to strip bars, that seem to be on every corner.

[freedom fighter jh]

6. I'm with the patent office on this one.

Their problem is not with the product but just with its name.

For better or worse, there are things we don't talk about in public.

Imagine you're shopping at Target with your 7-year-old daughter, who is just learning to sound out words. She sees a display for this product, reads the name, and asks you what it is. First you have to give her at least a sketchy lecture about the male anatomy. Then (and this is the hard part, IMO), you have to explain that she should not use this word you just explained to her because it's not a nice word. If she starts using that word casually, the way we grown-ups do, people will think she's vulgar. You don't want your kid subjected to that.

*Should* society be more open about this kind of language? Maybe so. But I don't think the patent office is where this kind of social change should start.

[DRoseDARs]

7. Truck nutz.

Your move.

[Scootaloo]

19. You make a poor argument

1) Your kid is probably already well aware by age seven that different people have different parts. Thanks to mainstream American comedy, she is going to be aware of pretty much every slang term for those parts, as well. She might not know what "testicles" mean, however.

2) Even if you're a parent who wraps their kids in cotton batting and bubble wrap and only permits them to watch veggietales until they are fifteen, odds are the child is still aware of different parts, simply because she has walked in on you taking a pee. or because of a few minutes of curiosity with a boy at some remote corner of the school playground. Or maybe she asked her mother what makes boys and girls different, and your wife, being a more sensible person than you, gave her an anatomy rundown.

3) Do many situations arise in your household where your hypothetical child would be discussing the subject of male genetalia? probably not, unless your home doubles as a frat house. if that's the case, then you're not the only person she's seen standing up to pee.

4) Finally, odds are the child, being a child, will simply think it's a funny name for pants, and will go back to trying to hide in the rack-of-T-shirts "fort' nearby.

Seriously. hang out with some actual kids. make friends with parents. There's been thousands of generations of them, and not once have they ever been fragile hothouse orchids.

[freedom fighter jh]

21. Please go back and read my post carefully.

It's not about body parts. I mentioned body parts on the way to dealing with the language issue. Kids have to learn about different kinds of body parts sooner or later.

I personally don't have a problem with kids throwing around any language they want. But you don't want to put your kids into a position where someone else will judge them for their language. And our society is much more judgmental of children's language than it is of adults'. Until that changes, until kids speak without being judged as bad kids just because of their choice of words, they do need to be protected from exposure to those words.

[DRoseDARs]

23. The lack of response to "truck nutz" is telling.

Completely undermines whatever silly argument is made about protecting the delicate little flowers from unseemly things.

[heaven05]

8. america???

stupid ban. High powered rifles in the hands of private citizens are vulgar, barbarous and uncivilized. Police brutality is vulgar. Racism, homophobia and misogyny are vulgar.Those shorts I could use sometimes when 'squeezed' by my regular shorts and pants...

[truth2power]

9. Duluth Trading ad...Ballroom jeans.

&index=10&list=PLC930D3EF0DA8A52D

Hilarious!

Watch their other ads, too.

I bought my son a couple of their t-shirts for Christmas. Good quality stuff.

[PotatoChip]

14. Lol! I've learned quite a lot from this thread.

I've never really given much thought to these 'issues' before.



Eta: You guys have my sympathy, though. We women have 'issues' of our own...

[libodem]

15. Perhaps "Ballroom Briefs"

Or "Junk Drawers" could bounce by.

[PotatoChip]

13. I bet this is REALLY about some US company wanting a patent for themselves.

They probably want to grab the US market on this product. Some already established company like Hanes or Fruit of the Loom will probably just change the name, obtain a US patent, then get one of their Chinese contractors to produce them.

It would probably become a very high selling item, if Mr. PotatoChip's reaction is any indication. Heh.

Seriously, I'm wondering how difficult it would be to order directly from the Norwegian company?

[libodem]

16. It might make a nice sideline

At a fertility clinic. Snowballing.

[whereisjustice]

17. lol - the false modesty of the USPTO on display

[PeoViejo]

20. Keeps the padding from dropping out of your pants while dancing

but they're going to find out sooner or later that you have a tiny Dick.