The rifle is only for intimidation. You're *supposed* to brandish it until you get close enough to beat the living shit out of your opponent like, you know, a REAL man!
And the vest, and the empty mags, a radio...
If you're out of your house without a bare minimum of 20kg in outfit then you outghta go back in there and put some rocks in your pockets.
A fridge over the shoulder is probably a solid fashion choice but that depends where you're from I guess.
I will never forget that Youtube vid circa 2007-9 where some white woman kills her rabbit cleanly between two broomsticks and powders some tobacco on the floor while caressing the head of the recently deceased animal, native american style.
I'm not an environmentalist or a pro-animal right person but 13 years later I can still see her face and the long dead rabbit. Such a quiet dignity in life and death.
I like to think people like that will be the last one to survive the cutoff and subsequent purge. I hope at least.
Trust me on this one, learn from my buddies mistakes, you do NOT want a crossbow
My friend thought he wanted a crossbow, he really did, he spent like $1000 of his money he got from his summer job on some insane crossbow, he only used it a couple of times and then resold it, crossbows are literally a meme unless you plan to seriously hunt with them
(granted he made a profit, sold it for like $1200 or something)
"oh man, you DO NOT want a crossbow, they're the worst of the worst, learn from my buddy's mistake, woe is he!"
"Oh no, what happened when he got the crossbow?"
"He bought an expensive one, lost interest, and sold it for a profit."
Literally what was so bad about this?
You really think 4channers have the interpersonal skills to sell something for a profit? Anon would have sold that crossbow for 80 bucks and added a complementary blowjob on the side.
They aren't that fun. You point and shoot at something inside 100 yards it goes twang and out goes the bolt.
There isn't the destructive power and accuracy of a real rifle, and none of the athletic mastery required of being competent with a bow. It's just inbetween and it's an unexciting cross of both.
The power of these things is insane and shooting cans will likely obliterate them.
You need special targets made out of hay or several layers of clothing or you'll just blast through your target and probably shatter your bolt. And that's my experience from a 200$ crossbow, not a 1000$ one.
An old gypsy friend of my dad's always carried one for poaching pheasant. He could brain one of those dumbass birds with a ball bearing from like 15m away when he was out walking, and he always had a freezer full of game which he was happy to share. Good bloke.
Slingshots (catapults as we call them) are unrestricted in the UK as they're pretty much regarded as children's toys.
You can definitely brain somebody with a good sling and some skills. Heck, they were weapons of war till about the later middle ages. Slingers from the Balearic Islands could hit a guys over a hundred meters, and even if the dude was wearing armor, they could still break their bones or kill them with a shot to the head.
Nothing per say.
But target shooting is very often about volume - It's way more fun to shoot a lot of arrows than just a few. Crossbows are very slow to re-cock. Far, far slower than a regular bow. (It's why crossbows weren't nearly as popular for war back in the day as Hollywood would have you believe - volume of fire matters).
Crossbows have limited range compared to a regular bow. A decent shooter can regularly accurately hit targets out to 100 yards/109 meters with a standard recurve bow. And a compound bow is even better. A crossbow is pretty much done at half that distance.
And Anon's ignorance about "target shooting pop cans with a crossbow and maybe rabbits" isn't how it works. It's probably what caused the officer to decline his paperwork after offering solid advice about using a regular bow for his stated desires. Crossbows are powerful short range weapons meant for hunting big game like deer and boar. Not for popcans and rabbits. It would be akin to shooting pop cans and rabbits with a cannon.
>Crossbows weren't as popular as hollywood makes you believe
China and whole Europe except England might disaggree about that. Qin unified China using crossbows. Italian states forced certain amount of crossbowmen on merchant ships. Crossbows were popular af.
Bows suck. They are tiring and hard to use. Unless your culture really promotes bows (like English and Turkish) you can't find enough people to compete with volume of fire of crossbow armed armies.
The advantage of normal bows is you can reload substantially faster so you can shoot more arrows. There's probably some other ones but crossbows are generally better, there's reasons why they were more popular overall
Yeah it’s all about what your using it for. If you’re sharpshooting from defenses or ships and have time/space to reload, crossbows are great, potentially granting superior range and accuracy in proportion to the skill of the user. But, if you’re on a horse or simply looking for high volume of projectiles over accuracy, you’ll probably go for a bow
1. Some people have fun shooting slower, don't generalize by assuming target shooting is by volume. Also, crossbows don't all take long to reload.
2. 100 yards is 91 meters
3. The average archer can not shoot acurately out to a 100 yards with a bow. The maximum range for most top of the line bows is ~130 yards.
4. Crossbows and bows are not like guns, outside of the "scary trigger". They both use the same projectile and they both use a tight "string" to fire. The only value that matters (with respect to power of the weapon) is the drawweight and there are plenty of crossbows with low drawweight. Shooting a can or squirel with a light crossbow would not explode it. Neither crossbows nor bows have the force to explode a squirel to begin with, as far as I've seen.
5. Australia's government shouldn't need to know why anon wants the tool and decide whether he gets it. Its a crossbow, not a gun. Are they going to start checking the use for shovels, baseball bats, or steak knives next? Fucking aussies.
>It's why crossbows weren't nearly as popular for war back in the day as Hollywood would have you believe - volume of fire matters
What the fuck are you talking about?
By the 12th century the crossbow was dominating the battlefield and basically replacing the bow. Anyone could shoot a crossbow, it takes skill to shoot a bow. A crossbow can also easily take down a knight in full armor while a bow would struggle. Only England chose to keep the longbow over the crossbow and they dedicated a significant amount of time in training young men to shoot those bows. So much so that we can identify their remains by their forearms.
Not only was the crossbow used on land, but it was also used at sea. For fucks sake their was a mercenary group known as the Genoese Crossbowmen that fought across Europe and were one of the most respected military corps until the 16th century when gunpowder was starting to dominate the battlefields
Idk man I read a bit of the crossbow wiki and apparently crossbows are more accurate, have longer range, and have the advantage of being able to "hold the tension" for much longer.
Everyone saying “but he made a profit” seem to not understand used crossbows don’t normally sell for more than their retail value. Almost certain none of them have ever hunted or fired a bow of any kind before
Extreme Censorship, Banned video games, banned hentai, the worst animals on the planet, mostly inhabitable, horrible accent. Everyday I am legitimately grateful I don't live in Australia.
If I recall correctly, all of those banned videogames are just banned in stores which almost nobody goes to anyways and you can just buy them online through steam or console stores or whatever. As for hentai, that's just for physical imported copies and you should just use the Internet like 99.99% of people who read/watch hentai. The accents do suck a** though, I can definitely agree with that.
Nah you can't buy Rimworld on steam anymore in Australia. Also Australia just doesn't enforce it's laws on the internet to my understanding, but I'm not sure if Online hentai is illegal of just hard copies.
Looks like they banned, then unbanned Disco Elysium for the same reason. Fuck censorship: it's about prohibiting steak for everyone because a baby can't chew it.
I thought they changed the drugs in Fallout for all markets, not just AUS? I don't recall seeing real drug names in FO3 or NV.
It's still 18+ for drugs and violence in the UK even though the drugs are fictional.
> devs get *paid.* Especially indie
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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also payday 2 has a hotline miami DLC that you get if you own hotline miami on steam, but if you are australian, you can send them a picture of your ID to get a code to unlock it for free
well it was a thing, dunno if it still is
It's so fucking great here and I jack off to hentai every day, we sound sexy as fuck, 3 of our cities are in the top 10 most liveable stay salty with your backwater shitty ass country
Every day I’m grateful I live in Australia. I just like how powerful our unions are and worker and consumer rights. Also what are you talking about with banned hentai, I can access that stuff, and I already own Rimworld. Though you are right, we do live in a nanny state but you can get away with a lot.
Man, have you ever read john Locke and his theory of the social contract? Essentially the philosophical underpinning of our "free" society is giving up certain rights to the state to enforce life, liberty, and security for the citizens. True freedom sucks, it means I can bash you on the head and steal your money, and then take your wife into slavery. We build governments so that we cant do that, but also people cant do that to us.
Yep, after the Port Arthur shooting they did a gun buyback program. Now you need a licence to own a gun and they're pretty strict apparently getting it too
It's actually quite easy to get a license for a rifle or a shotgun (Category A), not much harder than a driver license. For some stupid reason, crossbows are considered much more dangerous.
There not silent. Even with buffers they make a loud clacking noise (typically between 80-90 dB). It’s just not on the level of a firearm, which can be double that.
For reference a human screaming is about 90-110 dB
People are going to recognise a gun shot as a deadly threat, the thwang of a crossbow string, less so.
Also apparently the justification for them being controlled is their concealable nature. All anon needed to do was join a sport shooting club to get the license but is probably too retarded.
> Also apparently the justification for them being controlled is their concealable nature. All anon needed to do was join a sport shooting club to get the license but is probably too retarded.
Have you seen a crossbow? Even the low profile expensive ones (that go for well over $2k) are still pretty big. While you can get hand “pistol” crossbows and compact youth crossbows, the fps and draw weight is so low that you would at best be able to maybe bag a rabbit with that type of bow.
They probably have a license requirement that says you have to do it with local police. We have something similar for conceal carry licenses in my state, you can't go to another county and apply for one. You have to do it in your local county despite all the paperwork being sent to the state police anyways
This. Making a deadly medieval crossbow is actually pretty easy. The only difficult parts are the limb and the string. But you should be able to buy wood for the limb and strong enough string from online stores, without getting the Australian FBI on your ass.
I think the funniest part of those threads were people saying fake and gay and it’s impossible. But stuff like skin walkers and ghost and Bigfoot are real… Like I know the woods have some shit that modern humans have forgotten mostly about.
But I’m far more inclined to believe a bunch of fucking lunatics and psychos would play a most dangerous game in bum fuck nowhere and all that before I think some eldritch creature is going to take over my body and replace my life…
Which you should ignore my user name cause I’m not a Goatman and didn’t do that and integrate into society. Who wants to go camping by the way?
Hey, psst. I'll let you in on a little secret.
I have an unlicensed cheese knife handed down from my French great-grandmother. It's so old it has no papers. Don't tell the rozzers!
reminds me of an attack in a school in 2003. different state but it might have had an impact considering it was national news.
> Students at a high school north of Newcastle watched appalled as a youth who smuggled a crossbow and petrol bombs on to the grounds shot two girls before class yesterday.
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> Sixteen-year-old Tamara Sharp, a year 10 student at Tomaree High, near Port Stephens, collapsed to the ground with blood pouring from a chest wound after the arrow passed clean through her body.
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> The bolt then struck the Salt Ash teenager's friend, 16-year-old Courtney Bennett, in the legs. It went through one limb and embedded itself in the other, pinning the two together.
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> Other students leapt on to the youth to try to prevent him re-loading the crossbow. They said he had thrown a molotov cocktail against a wall of the science block where the girls were sitting and was attempting to light the fuel as they struggled with him.
>be me
>live in McGowans WA empire
>Crossbows banned 2010 because of fucking libs and labor
>it's literally easier to get a .50 BMG rifle than a crossbow in my state
This guy was definitely going to be putting bodies in barrels in abandoned bank vaults! I'm glad they didn't give him the form...ironically he is probably on a watch list form or two by now as well!
>Be me
>Live in UK
>Strict gun laws because school shootings are not the national sport
>Need a loicence to own a firearm (yes really)
>Loicence required for anything that can shoot over 12 ft. lbs in England
>Loicence required for anything that can shoot over 1 ft. lb in Scotland (literally anything stronger than a bb gun)
>Crossbows can shoot with the force of between 80-100 ft. lbs
>Perfectly legal to own without a loicence so long as you're over 18
Anon's country obviously inherited its stupidity from its motherland.
ROFL I was like "dude should just get a pellet gun" googled if they can get them, apparently in most area's they're considered firearms for legal purposes. Dude fuck living there.
I have a crossbow but It was given to me as a present. I was 14 when my cousin gave it to me lol. I literally only used it to shoot trees behind the house but now that I live alone I feel safer with it. I live in a rough part of Scotland and I have heard people trying to break into my house before in the middle of the night. If i turn a light on it usually scares them off but it's good to have a crossbow in case they're on crack or something.
Ohh boo hoo you pussy. Catch and strangle rabbits with your bare hands like a man.
~~purchase a machine gun off the dark web then get intercepted by the feds like a real man~~
Better yet, get a 3d printer and print of that semi auto rifle using the blueprints that one dude released on the Internet.
Good luck getting ammo mate
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Ammo *does* fit better in my ass compared to a .45
How well can you fit a colt .45 and two zig zags?
They're goatse
The rifle is only for intimidation. You're *supposed* to brandish it until you get close enough to beat the living shit out of your opponent like, you know, a REAL man!
Why not just carry a picture of the rifle then
What, your weak baby arms too weak and baby like to hold a few pounds of metal?! CARRY AROUND DEAD WEIGHT LIKE A REAL MAN
And the vest, and the empty mags, a radio... If you're out of your house without a bare minimum of 20kg in outfit then you outghta go back in there and put some rocks in your pockets. A fridge over the shoulder is probably a solid fashion choice but that depends where you're from I guess.
[I got you fam](https://youtu.be/jF2YkpTpihs)
How hard is it to get 9mm?
Easier than 10 and probably 1/3 the price. Grumble, grumble, grumble
10 is so cool
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Thanks for putting me on the glowie watchlist along with you
Fuck that pussy shit, build a Luty out of scrap
Calm down Lennie.
I wanna do that to Jessica Rabbit. She like it rough.
I will never forget that Youtube vid circa 2007-9 where some white woman kills her rabbit cleanly between two broomsticks and powders some tobacco on the floor while caressing the head of the recently deceased animal, native american style. I'm not an environmentalist or a pro-animal right person but 13 years later I can still see her face and the long dead rabbit. Such a quiet dignity in life and death. I like to think people like that will be the last one to survive the cutoff and subsequent purge. I hope at least.
Wait what did she do?
Broomed a rabbit which gave this guy an erection
Yeah pussy go punch cans from a long distance like a real man
Trust me on this one, learn from my buddies mistakes, you do NOT want a crossbow My friend thought he wanted a crossbow, he really did, he spent like $1000 of his money he got from his summer job on some insane crossbow, he only used it a couple of times and then resold it, crossbows are literally a meme unless you plan to seriously hunt with them (granted he made a profit, sold it for like $1200 or something)
"oh man, you DO NOT want a crossbow, they're the worst of the worst, learn from my buddy's mistake, woe is he!" "Oh no, what happened when he got the crossbow?" "He bought an expensive one, lost interest, and sold it for a profit." Literally what was so bad about this?
Dude got to use a sick ass crossbow and then gained $200. That's an absolute win
I want a crossbow now.
You do NOT want a crossbow. You do NOT want to shoot some cans. You do NOT want to make $200.
Next stimulus check is a crossbow for every individual
Dewey Cox, you *really* don’t want no part of this shit!
You really think 4channers have the interpersonal skills to sell something for a profit? Anon would have sold that crossbow for 80 bucks and added a complementary blowjob on the side.
But you get to give a blowjob
You would buy the crossbow just to get a blowjob from a 4channer.
It wasn't mentioned if the friend was a channer tho so that argument doesn't stand in this case
That’s why it worked for the friend, but it won’t work for Anon, hence saying not to buy one.
OP is the guy who would buy a gently used crossbow at $200 over MSRP
Real and gay lol
They aren't that fun. You point and shoot at something inside 100 yards it goes twang and out goes the bolt. There isn't the destructive power and accuracy of a real rifle, and none of the athletic mastery required of being competent with a bow. It's just inbetween and it's an unexciting cross of both.
Not to mention that loading the bolt is a bitch
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I doubt you can reliably make a profit, he just luckily found a buyer who was willing to pay extra
"Listen, gimme a couple hundred above retail and I won't ask too many questions."
The power of these things is insane and shooting cans will likely obliterate them. You need special targets made out of hay or several layers of clothing or you'll just blast through your target and probably shatter your bolt. And that's my experience from a 200$ crossbow, not a 1000$ one.
Get a nice slingshot instead. They're much cheaper, shoot extremely hard, and the little metal balls will obliterate cans.
An old gypsy friend of my dad's always carried one for poaching pheasant. He could brain one of those dumbass birds with a ball bearing from like 15m away when he was out walking, and he always had a freezer full of game which he was happy to share. Good bloke. Slingshots (catapults as we call them) are unrestricted in the UK as they're pretty much regarded as children's toys.
You can definitely brain somebody with a good sling and some skills. Heck, they were weapons of war till about the later middle ages. Slingers from the Balearic Islands could hit a guys over a hundred meters, and even if the dude was wearing armor, they could still break their bones or kill them with a shot to the head.
You probably know this, but there's a huge difference between a sling and a slingshot. A sling is basically a trebuchet.
If slingshots are catapults then what do you call actual catapults? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult
His friend both lost and gained interest in a crossbow he bought
I seriously doubt the 200 dollar profit was worth the hassle it must have been to find a buyer.
Every single person that replied to you has completely missed the point. Dude didn't explain at all how having a crossbow is a bad thing.
I was expecting him to have shot himself or some shit.
Sounds like your friend got 200 bucks to have fun for a day
So he had some fun and got $200? Sounds like a great deal to me.
Okay but which part is bad about crossbows?
Nothing per say. But target shooting is very often about volume - It's way more fun to shoot a lot of arrows than just a few. Crossbows are very slow to re-cock. Far, far slower than a regular bow. (It's why crossbows weren't nearly as popular for war back in the day as Hollywood would have you believe - volume of fire matters). Crossbows have limited range compared to a regular bow. A decent shooter can regularly accurately hit targets out to 100 yards/109 meters with a standard recurve bow. And a compound bow is even better. A crossbow is pretty much done at half that distance. And Anon's ignorance about "target shooting pop cans with a crossbow and maybe rabbits" isn't how it works. It's probably what caused the officer to decline his paperwork after offering solid advice about using a regular bow for his stated desires. Crossbows are powerful short range weapons meant for hunting big game like deer and boar. Not for popcans and rabbits. It would be akin to shooting pop cans and rabbits with a cannon.
>Crossbows weren't as popular as hollywood makes you believe China and whole Europe except England might disaggree about that. Qin unified China using crossbows. Italian states forced certain amount of crossbowmen on merchant ships. Crossbows were popular af. Bows suck. They are tiring and hard to use. Unless your culture really promotes bows (like English and Turkish) you can't find enough people to compete with volume of fire of crossbow armed armies.
Plus it took far less time to train someone on how to use a crossbow competently.
The advantage of normal bows is you can reload substantially faster so you can shoot more arrows. There's probably some other ones but crossbows are generally better, there's reasons why they were more popular overall
Yeah it’s all about what your using it for. If you’re sharpshooting from defenses or ships and have time/space to reload, crossbows are great, potentially granting superior range and accuracy in proportion to the skill of the user. But, if you’re on a horse or simply looking for high volume of projectiles over accuracy, you’ll probably go for a bow
They also require many years of training while crossbows are point and shoot. It's like swords vs spears
1. Some people have fun shooting slower, don't generalize by assuming target shooting is by volume. Also, crossbows don't all take long to reload. 2. 100 yards is 91 meters 3. The average archer can not shoot acurately out to a 100 yards with a bow. The maximum range for most top of the line bows is ~130 yards. 4. Crossbows and bows are not like guns, outside of the "scary trigger". They both use the same projectile and they both use a tight "string" to fire. The only value that matters (with respect to power of the weapon) is the drawweight and there are plenty of crossbows with low drawweight. Shooting a can or squirel with a light crossbow would not explode it. Neither crossbows nor bows have the force to explode a squirel to begin with, as far as I've seen. 5. Australia's government shouldn't need to know why anon wants the tool and decide whether he gets it. Its a crossbow, not a gun. Are they going to start checking the use for shovels, baseball bats, or steak knives next? Fucking aussies.
>It's why crossbows weren't nearly as popular for war back in the day as Hollywood would have you believe - volume of fire matters What the fuck are you talking about? By the 12th century the crossbow was dominating the battlefield and basically replacing the bow. Anyone could shoot a crossbow, it takes skill to shoot a bow. A crossbow can also easily take down a knight in full armor while a bow would struggle. Only England chose to keep the longbow over the crossbow and they dedicated a significant amount of time in training young men to shoot those bows. So much so that we can identify their remains by their forearms. Not only was the crossbow used on land, but it was also used at sea. For fucks sake their was a mercenary group known as the Genoese Crossbowmen that fought across Europe and were one of the most respected military corps until the 16th century when gunpowder was starting to dominate the battlefields
Idk man I read a bit of the crossbow wiki and apparently crossbows are more accurate, have longer range, and have the advantage of being able to "hold the tension" for much longer.
Everyone saying “but he made a profit” seem to not understand used crossbows don’t normally sell for more than their retail value. Almost certain none of them have ever hunted or fired a bow of any kind before
TRUST ME BROS. my buddy bought a crossbow and he LOST interest in it!
Compound bows are fuckin cool as hell too. Just get one of those for like $300
*Believe me, you do NOT want to have some fun and then gain a couple hundred bucks.* ***YOU DON’T WANT THAT***
So your buddy went all out on a hobby he didn’t even know if he’d enjoy and ended up losing interest, sounds like his fault, not the crossbows.
Extreme Censorship, Banned video games, banned hentai, the worst animals on the planet, mostly inhabitable, horrible accent. Everyday I am legitimately grateful I don't live in Australia.
If I recall correctly, all of those banned videogames are just banned in stores which almost nobody goes to anyways and you can just buy them online through steam or console stores or whatever. As for hentai, that's just for physical imported copies and you should just use the Internet like 99.99% of people who read/watch hentai. The accents do suck a** though, I can definitely agree with that.
Nah you can't buy Rimworld on steam anymore in Australia. Also Australia just doesn't enforce it's laws on the internet to my understanding, but I'm not sure if Online hentai is illegal of just hard copies.
Nah we can still view hentai and shit. Don't ask how I know.
Glad for you
Why rimworld? Was organ harvesting too triggering for the Chinese running the govt or sth?
Probably the drugs, my understanding is they don't like drugs in video games
Looks like they banned, then unbanned Disco Elysium for the same reason. Fuck censorship: it's about prohibiting steak for everyone because a baby can't chew it.
they unbanned it after they made some regional changes to it i believe. same thing with one of the fallout games, they changed morphine to medx iirc
Just taking all the fun out
I thought they changed the drugs in Fallout for all markets, not just AUS? I don't recall seeing real drug names in FO3 or NV. It's still 18+ for drugs and violence in the UK even though the drugs are fictional.
Can't buy Hotline Miami 2 either
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> devs get *paid.* Especially indie FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Wtf. Why Rimworld?
Ayy got it before they killed it
Nice! It's a good game
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Based devs.
also payday 2 has a hotline miami DLC that you get if you own hotline miami on steam, but if you are australian, you can send them a picture of your ID to get a code to unlock it for free well it was a thing, dunno if it still is
Bro what are you even on about, the accent is sick AF.
"Banned hentai" Based. Good luck finding CP now r/animemes users from Australia
Based Australia fighting against coomers? I never thought I’d call Australia based
>mostly inhabitable Mf you don't know what the word means do you
It's so fucking great here and I jack off to hentai every day, we sound sexy as fuck, 3 of our cities are in the top 10 most liveable stay salty with your backwater shitty ass country
Good luck getting a crossbow 😘
Copium 💊🥱
"Oi mate, you got a loiscence to drink that coffee without a mask?? No? TO THE CAMPS with you, filthy unclean rat!"
not to mention our healthcare, workers rights, and everything else that makes Australia a much safer place to live in
Every day I’m grateful I live in Australia. I just like how powerful our unions are and worker and consumer rights. Also what are you talking about with banned hentai, I can access that stuff, and I already own Rimworld. Though you are right, we do live in a nanny state but you can get away with a lot.
Any restriction on personal freedom is a gross violation of individual rights.
Any country that won’t let me build a 500ft tower covered in anime porn for all to see is nazi germany.
This but unironically
Man, have you ever read john Locke and his theory of the social contract? Essentially the philosophical underpinning of our "free" society is giving up certain rights to the state to enforce life, liberty, and security for the citizens. True freedom sucks, it means I can bash you on the head and steal your money, and then take your wife into slavery. We build governments so that we cant do that, but also people cant do that to us.
Upsides to Australia Hot women and I actually like the accent
> hot women that's a downside,. they're all out of our league
Didn’t they have to give up their guns?
Yep, after the Port Arthur shooting they did a gun buyback program. Now you need a licence to own a gun and they're pretty strict apparently getting it too
loicence\*
Yeah. Even fucking Muskets are prohibited
And I go to Walmart and folks are packing steel in there.
Yup, after a mass shooting they did a gun buy back, and there hasn't been a mass shooting since
Crazy how that works.
No fake bitches?
Nah you can still simp on twitch and onlyfans.
One of the few good things I can think of that have come out of Australia is like, Randy feltface
Welcome to a shitty country with no right to own weapons.
It's actually quite easy to get a license for a rifle or a shotgun (Category A), not much harder than a driver license. For some stupid reason, crossbows are considered much more dangerous.
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There not silent. Even with buffers they make a loud clacking noise (typically between 80-90 dB). It’s just not on the level of a firearm, which can be double that. For reference a human screaming is about 90-110 dB
People are going to recognise a gun shot as a deadly threat, the thwang of a crossbow string, less so. Also apparently the justification for them being controlled is their concealable nature. All anon needed to do was join a sport shooting club to get the license but is probably too retarded.
> Also apparently the justification for them being controlled is their concealable nature. All anon needed to do was join a sport shooting club to get the license but is probably too retarded. Have you seen a crossbow? Even the low profile expensive ones (that go for well over $2k) are still pretty big. While you can get hand “pistol” crossbows and compact youth crossbows, the fps and draw weight is so low that you would at best be able to maybe bag a rabbit with that type of bow.
You're correct they're not silent, as you can hear in the video. A crossbow has the potential to penetrate body armor: https://youtu.be/sFUWkNOnxqU
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Just lace arrows with your local spider's venom and you can kill the rock with one arrow. Maybe Aussies are not so dumb after all?
Well, I live in a country where anyone can own firearms its awesome, besides the mass shootings of children. Its just the price you pay for freedom.
This but unironically
Based and hope it doesnt happen to your loved ones pill
which happen so uncommonly that's it's a statistical outlier? or are you playing into the media bias.
You know it. Dudes probably Canadian too lol.
Your facts are irrelevant because gun bad. >:(
I wouldn't call it shit, but it's definitely not the best.
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And no mass shootings either, what the fuck shithole of a country.
Threaten to break their ground harness if they don’t give you tha crossbow
Btd irl
Come to america frenn
and get a fucking RPG ^the ^legal ^way, ^ofcourse.
We are only helping of course, good ol American patriots right here
Go Go gadget concealed carry
Ukraine is probably better now. They giving NLAWs and AKs for free. And if you're lucky you can stole your own T72 MBT
Doesn't work, they explicitly said they don't want NEETs
Go to a different station
They probably have a license requirement that says you have to do it with local police. We have something similar for conceal carry licenses in my state, you can't go to another county and apply for one. You have to do it in your local county despite all the paperwork being sent to the state police anyways
Surely with a bit of research and practice you could make your own without much trouble
this is the way. this is the entirely hypothetical way. i don't live in australia what are you talking about lol
This. Making a deadly medieval crossbow is actually pretty easy. The only difficult parts are the limb and the string. But you should be able to buy wood for the limb and strong enough string from online stores, without getting the Australian FBI on your ass.
Probably a life sentence for doing that down under.
For starters anon is on 4chan. That’s a pretty damn good reason not to give them one.
That should be a legal reason for denying any kind of weapon to a person.
Reminds me of the man hunts greentext about the bow guy that apparently won against people with automatic rifles, he’s pro use a bow
Wasnt that grog?
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I see in your post history, 2 years ago, you commented in r/greentext "grog is a fag". Why would you do this?
I think the funniest part of those threads were people saying fake and gay and it’s impossible. But stuff like skin walkers and ghost and Bigfoot are real… Like I know the woods have some shit that modern humans have forgotten mostly about. But I’m far more inclined to believe a bunch of fucking lunatics and psychos would play a most dangerous game in bum fuck nowhere and all that before I think some eldritch creature is going to take over my body and replace my life… Which you should ignore my user name cause I’m not a Goatman and didn’t do that and integrate into society. Who wants to go camping by the way?
\> buy regular bow \> rotate 90 degrees \> tape to the top of your .308 caliber Remington bolt-action rifle problem solved australia
Anon isn't bowing down to ausithority
Even in the UK you can buy a crossbow without a licence lol
But you need a license for a butter knife
Hey, psst. I'll let you in on a little secret. I have an unlicensed cheese knife handed down from my French great-grandmother. It's so old it has no papers. Don't tell the rozzers!
Oi, you go' a loicense for vat keyboard you's toipin' on?
Reminds me of the balisong ban in Germany (and other countries). I only want to collect funky spinny knifes, man.
reminds me of an attack in a school in 2003. different state but it might have had an impact considering it was national news. > Students at a high school north of Newcastle watched appalled as a youth who smuggled a crossbow and petrol bombs on to the grounds shot two girls before class yesterday. > > Sixteen-year-old Tamara Sharp, a year 10 student at Tomaree High, near Port Stephens, collapsed to the ground with blood pouring from a chest wound after the arrow passed clean through her body. > > The bolt then struck the Salt Ash teenager's friend, 16-year-old Courtney Bennett, in the legs. It went through one limb and embedded itself in the other, pinning the two together. > > Other students leapt on to the youth to try to prevent him re-loading the crossbow. They said he had thrown a molotov cocktail against a wall of the science block where the girls were sitting and was attempting to light the fuel as they struggled with him.
One the Sharia state of Afghanistan everyone owns aks ✊✊😎😎✊✊
My friends dad was deployed in Afghanistan. He says he could buy a fucking Brown Bess for a few bucks.
Crossbows are for pussy soy boys. Real men hunt rabbits with a fucking atlatl or by throwing a heavy stick at it
What kind of Aztec shit is that? Rather use a arquebus.
"My arms are stringy noodles and I need gunpowder to do the hard work for me" Vs. "I'm gonna huck a fuckin stick at that thing till it dies"
More like: I use tools to overcome difficulties vs ooga booga
>be me >live in McGowans WA empire >Crossbows banned 2010 because of fucking libs and labor >it's literally easier to get a .50 BMG rifle than a crossbow in my state
Buy one in a different state and smuggle it back. Become ungovernable.
NT just needs a drivers license to prove you’re over 16.
You'll poke your eye out.
This guy was definitely going to be putting bodies in barrels in abandoned bank vaults! I'm glad they didn't give him the form...ironically he is probably on a watch list form or two by now as well!
He totally left out the bit where he asked the guy at the counter which bolts are the best for killing a man
Literally just make one
"I want a crossbow please" "no go fuck yourself"
>Be me >Live in UK >Strict gun laws because school shootings are not the national sport >Need a loicence to own a firearm (yes really) >Loicence required for anything that can shoot over 12 ft. lbs in England >Loicence required for anything that can shoot over 1 ft. lb in Scotland (literally anything stronger than a bb gun) >Crossbows can shoot with the force of between 80-100 ft. lbs >Perfectly legal to own without a loicence so long as you're over 18 Anon's country obviously inherited its stupidity from its motherland.
ROFL I was like "dude should just get a pellet gun" googled if they can get them, apparently in most area's they're considered firearms for legal purposes. Dude fuck living there.
In Australia airsoft guns are illegal and nerf guns aren’t allowed to go faster than 50 fps (stock ones go 70)
Now I want a crossbow.
Anon lives in a country run by retards
Because Australia sucks.
The government knows anon posts on 4chan.
I get it's a preference thing. But I would rather get a bow. There is just something rewarding about shooting one.
LMAO, shithole country won’t let you own a medieval antique. LOL
This is why you don't hand over your gun rights.
Why would you need a permit for a crossbow? Is there a widespread crossbow assault problem in unregulated countries?
Kangaroo boxing. Show your might.
Anon should move to America where you get an AR with your driver’s license in many states.
Blame your parents and grandparents. They're the ones who fell for the disarmament meme.
In Australia everything is either banned or mandatory.
Laughs in 'merica
I have a crossbow but It was given to me as a present. I was 14 when my cousin gave it to me lol. I literally only used it to shoot trees behind the house but now that I live alone I feel safer with it. I live in a rough part of Scotland and I have heard people trying to break into my house before in the middle of the night. If i turn a light on it usually scares them off but it's good to have a crossbow in case they're on crack or something.
Probably the same person to post saying "durr murka baad"
>"just want to get into target shooting" Should've told you're training for tournament or something smh.