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minus-squareBelgdorelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoI assume it’s because it’s hard to come up with a legal definition for flamethrower that doesn’t exclude things like blow torches, and there aren’t a lot of incidents involving flamethrowers
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoThe difference isn’t really that complicated; a flamethrower sprays flaming liquid, a blowtorch sprays flaming gas
minus-squareZron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYeah but I can set up my oxy acetylene rig to throw huge beams of fire. To a layman, it’ll look like a flame thrower.
I assume it’s because it’s hard to come up with a legal definition for flamethrower that doesn’t exclude things like blow torches, and there aren’t a lot of incidents involving flamethrowers
The difference isn’t really that complicated; a flamethrower sprays flaming liquid, a blowtorch sprays flaming gas
Yeah but I can set up my oxy acetylene rig to throw huge beams of fire. To a layman, it’ll look like a flame thrower.