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Not sure what the deal is with tennis balls, raquet balls hurt a whole lot more!

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[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 102 points 3 months ago (1 children)

""[It's] utterly ridiculous," Robert Bauman, a Milwaukee City Alderman who proposed adding guns to that city ordinance, told ABC News. "I mean, I could just picture this image of somebody coming up to the entry point with, you know, an AR-15 strapped over one shoulder, a long rifle over another, and two pistols in his belt, and the cops asking him, 'You got any tennis balls?'"

^^I would pay money to see that scene^^

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 19 points 3 months ago

Which one of you lemmings in Milwaukee gonna go show off your 2nd amendment rights? Leave the tennis balls at home, tho!

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Cut a hole in the tennis ball, stick it on the muzzle of your AR-15 and call it a silencer. Bet you could smuggle in a number of tennis balls that way

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ATF would like to disagree and kill your dog

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What if my dog is my silencer?

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As long as you've accounted for point-of-impact shift and paid your $200 tax, you're good to go.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

No, I will not and this Davey Crockett tactical nuke in my home museum agrees.

This is a Wasteland 2 joke I do not have a tactical nuke, a silencer, or even a working gun. I do have a 100 plus year old broken revolver though.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Never block your muzzle or you risk a "Bugs Bunny".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfGZ7AU5Cs

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That’s disappointing that tennis balls will not be allowed. Do the people with walkers coat check them in with there guns?

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

No. They don't have to coat check the guns.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If they’re going to allow guns in the RNC, I hope they at least manage to round up a handful of competent secret service agents, if that still exists.

[–] Darukhnarn@feddit.de 50 points 3 months ago (31 children)

Im fine with republicans getting the secret detail they deserve.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They aren't allowing them in the RNC, that's the hard perimeter established by the SS.

The soft perimeter surrounding that is where they allow guns but not tennis balls.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That abbreviation is kinda unlucky, ...you know

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The secret service had it first. Also boats.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

The incompetent ones are so easy though! You just bait them with prostitutes! :)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-17747793

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

but tennis balls will not

Are they worried that Ryoma Hoshi might be real?

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My life is being infected with DRv3.

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[–] mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This tells me the explosives they found in Crooks’ vehicle were hidden in tennis balls

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The restriction on tennis balls is apparently a city restriction that pre-dates the attempt so... 🤔🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤔

[–] mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Aww that’s a lot less silly and therefore less fun (still pretty silly though I guess)

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[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They should be allowed inside the venue. After all, gun free zones are a big problem.

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I want the right to bare balls

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Not sure if that's what's meant by 'open carry'

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I wonder what would happen if someone drove by one of those places and played bullet sounds on their ghetto blaster...

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Or the sounds of a tennis match

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Republican events and rallies are the one place I support as many guns as possible being there.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

They should live their values.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Why tennis balls ? Strange.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I took a golf ball to the forehead off a tee box. That wasn't fun.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago

trump is a World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer

Odds are they are terrified that people will toss a tennis ball around the same way people tossed a beach ball around to "protest" Super Roman (... while making sure to buy every available ticket).

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

This sounds like a Monty Python sketch or something. It's just so absurdist.

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about a loaded soup-can gauge shotgun?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You kid, but the 2 gauge (not a typo!) "Punt Gun" was a thing! Used for shooting mass numbers of ducks and geese!

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

both these guys were deaf shortly after firing this

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this photo was just for scale, the normal use case was mounted in a small boat or "Punt".

But geeze... these pictures...

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[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

Please proceed

[–] thirstyhyena@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Are 4G/5G phones allowed? Because those can fry your brain.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But what if my tennis ball is a gun? Which law overrides the other?

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Don't be silly, you can't make a gun out of a tennis ball. You have to make the tennis ball a grenade before the 2A fanatics will protect your right to take it into a political convention.

[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Not sure what the deal is with tennis balls, raquet balls hurt a whole lot more!

They consider tennis balls to be raquetball furries.

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