@freemo Wouldn't siege weapons, like ballistas and catapults and siege towers, which are mobile heavy weapons platforms designed to protect their operators, be the medieval equivalent of tanks?
@freemo And, ironically, if they are, then the best defense against them was typically fire arrows, and the modern equivalent, flamethrowers, are federally legal.
@LouisIngenthron@freemo Siege engines were artillery. They were replaced by bombards, large caliber artillery, when gunpowder was available in quantity.
A fair number of Civil War reenactors own cannons, those are legal too.
@freemo For people who complain about dangerous objects, it comes in handy to point out the early 20th century.
You could buy dynamite at the hardware store, buy opium or cyanide at the drug store, and order a machine gun through the mail.
And yet society was more peaceful than it is today, at least until radicals from the failed 1905 Russian revolution started showing up here. Whatever has gone wrong, it isn't dangerous objects.
@mike805 People dont realize that all those things are still very accessible for someone who doesnt care about the law. Any schmuck can make a fully auto weapon or extract any of those chemicals with minimal effort.
@freemo Agreed, MANPADS as well. In every recent people vs state war, having such AA and AT rockets made all the difference. USA refused to supply them to Iraqi rebels and Iraq wiped the rebels out with helicopters.
Now the practicalities: they cost as much as a car per shot, and don't differentiate between armored limos, airliners, and military targets.
Where to store them? Who owns them? How to train with them? A local armoury would make sense, with two person access by the citizens.
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