Timeline for Legally speaking, would shooting fire out of your hands, count as a Firearm? [closed]
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| May 16, 2018 at 3:00 | vote | accept | MnIce | ||
| May 16, 2018 at 3:00 | vote | accept | MnIce | ||
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| May 14, 2018 at 16:17 | comment | added | Jack R. Woods | I think even in today's legal definition definitions.uslegal.com/w/weapon , the term can be generalized to anything that can be used to defeat, injure or destroy. So, sure, superpowers could be used as a weapon. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 18:53 | comment | added | BKlassen | weapon - a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage, if you use fire to cause harm it is by definition a weapon | |
| May 11, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | Brythan | Why would you need a precedent for altering laws? It would make more sense for precedent to prevent altering laws to make an inherent ability illegal to ... what exactly? Go within a thousand feet of a school? Walk around at all? Attack someone? Rob a liquor store? Sell his arms? | |
| May 11, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | GrandmasterB | In our mundane world, you could in theory harm someone by spitting on them while infected with something. That would not be considered a firearm - but there are still other laws that apply. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 17:28 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| May 11, 2018 at 17:13 | history | edited | MnIce | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Unholding edit, made more cohesive, made question more obvious.
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| May 11, 2018 at 16:57 | history | closed |
Mołot John SPavel Anketam James K |
Needs more focus | |
| May 11, 2018 at 16:30 | comment | added | Aify | @AndyD273 I'd assume that a firearm is an arm made of literal fire... | |
| May 11, 2018 at 16:26 | answer | added | xCovelus - Слава Україні | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 14:10 | comment | added | AndyD273 | @chrylis Well, a weapon is something that you hold in your hand, and a firearm is when fire shoots out of your arm. At least in this case... | |
| May 11, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | ScottishTapWater | Why not ask Law.SE? | |
| May 11, 2018 at 12:07 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | "I AM the law." Problem solved | |
| May 11, 2018 at 10:32 | comment | added | user | You might want to compare What could cause normal people to hate magicians? (Full disclosure: the accepted answer is my own.) While the question is obviously different, some of the reasoning in the answers given may apply to interpretations of existing legal texts as well. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 10:32 | comment | added | Mawg | Lolx ! "can shoot fire out of their hands" ... "laws pertaining to firearms" :-) | |
| May 11, 2018 at 10:12 | answer | added | Bilkokuya | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 7:40 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 11, 2018 at 7:25 | comment | added | Mołot | We have hundreds of law systems with thousands of precedents and interpretations in each. It would be a really broad task to answer this question fully. What country / state you are thinking about? | |
| May 11, 2018 at 5:04 | comment | added | Nuloen The Seeker | First of the person would be in a lab, so no laws are necessary. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 3:50 | comment | added | Karl Bielefeldt | There are hunting rifles that aren't subject to laws pertaining to firearms, depending on jurisdiction. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 3:49 | comment | added | chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- | And you jump from "weapon" to "firearm". There are reasons for having different words. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 3:22 | answer | added | Tim B II | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 2:58 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 2:22 | answer | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 2:11 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | Remember to state what country you mean this for (as a minimum). Laws are different from place to place. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:56 | comment | added | kingledion | Under current law, no, because no one can shoot fire out of their hands. I suspect, however, that in a world that does have people who shoot fire out of their hands, the be-fired would have some legal recourse after being singed, or at least their next of kin would. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:16 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 20 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:13 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 1:01 | history | asked | MnIce | CC BY-SA 4.0 |