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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by mrcwinn on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @11:27PM (#42789005)
The law recognizes that a bottle of beer generally cannot be used to murder someone else.
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by rpmisms on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:15AM (#42789630)
But it easily can. Break the end off and poke.
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by karles on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:34AM (#42790118)
No more shoelaces - they are weapons.

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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by rpmisms on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:28AM (#42793193)
You joke, but the ATF museum has within it a shoelace that is registered as a machine gun.
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by beowulfey on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:24AM (#42792533)
and if a store was selling broken bottles as weapons that would probably face some legal action
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by rpmisms on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:29AM (#42793200)
Maybe. That would probably legally qualify as a knife.
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by echoangle on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:38AM (#42793293)
And stores are not allowed to sell knifes due to the danger to others?
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by rpmisms on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:13AM (#42794290)
Not in the US.
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by cooper_ganglia on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:01PM (#42795643)
What store isn't allowed to sell knives??
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Re:Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace by echoangle on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @01:13PM (#42795801)
It was a rhetorical question, that was the point.
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