OT: 37MM Under Barrel Flare & Smoke Grenade Launcher

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Billed as "the most fun you can legally have", these things are worth a look. Just like a 40 MM M-79 or M-203, but legit to own.

http://www.37mm.com/

Being a boat owner, this seems like an ideal solution to my seagoing safety concerns. :p Of course, it helps they also happen to look really cool.

Very serious laws if you load anything "DD" and it could blow your hand/arm off, so don't even go there. Safety/warning page with gruesome pix of just that: :eek:

http://www.freewebs.com/grog/safety1.htm

This could change the 4th of July completely, and they're legal, at least for now.

Anybody got one? Or anybody else WANT one?


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I've never played with a 37mm.

40mm is another matter, though. I'd classify these as about the most fun one can have with their clothes on.
 
....If I ever sell a book and get some real money, I'd planned on a Barret semi auto 50 cal to blow up old cars and trucks in the desert. Yes, I know better men have better dreams but that's mine....at any rate, I'd certainly consider throwing a 37 mm projectile, maybe towards an old Washinmachine.



munk
 
What makes mankind unique? Is it our humanity and compassion? Is it our understanding of our own morality and the passage of time? Is it our creativity and feeling of warmth from a higher power/deity/purpose?
Nope...it's just the paradox that we have been charged with the task of being stewards of the earth while gaining/inventing the capacity to cause the biggest most destructive BOOMs on the planet;) Fire and destruction are natural aspects of human nature as, IMHO, we were never a race designed to last long or harmonize with the earth. We are creatures of change and destruction based on adaptivity. Stagnation frightens us, and we want to see maximum action in our lives as constants would mean growing old and dying before things cycle again. Explosions offer us the most instant gratification in the most efficent amount of time. "See that freshly junked car over there?" ...KAPOW! 100 years of decay in a loud split second. Yep, Munk HAS to be human.
Mike, those things look AWESOME:D I want one. I have to be tactful all day everyday at work. Just once, i would like the ability to have an item of impulse that would both strike instant fear in the hearts of men...yet probably not kill them. How cool would it be to just step out your front door to confront the little neighborhood bastids throwing rocks in your grass with one of those things. Calmly speak, "Hey...get off my lawn." FOOMP FOOMP FOOMP FOOMP. Hellfire and screams as they run staggering away, white faced from shear terror. Sure, the civil suits would come, but that day...that day's smile would be well worth it.

Jake
 
Tiny things getting in jet engines turbine blades and creating fractures.


Jeff Cooper always said in the first Gulf war what the Pilots feared most was small arms fire.




munk
 
munk said:
Jeff Cooper always said in the first Gulf war what the Pilots feared most was small arms fire.
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If this is true I'd expect it to be because of their visibility. Tracers at night are anything but subtle.

I don't know about the utility of that adapter would be, but tell me it wouldn't be fun to rip off a few salvos at something fragile. I'm smiling just thinking about it.
 
If I see the picture correctly the launcher is attached below the rifle and when you buy the launcher you have to supply your own launch platform . In other words your own rifle . What kinda rifle will this attach to . I don,t have any militairy rifles and am not likely to acquire anything not directly related to hunting for a while .It just aint in the budget .
 
I brought up the idea of open purchasing one of those .22 adapters at work. I don't think that I was taken seriously. I'll try again tomorrow.

We can call it a training aid or something.
 
No problem, Mike. :)

Satori,

You could load up 6 .22LR tracers along with the standard stuff to get an idea of your path and trajectory...I also imagine seeing 18 rounds flying your direction at once would be disheartening (though even .22 tracer is much more expensive than solid lead or HP).
 
That thumper sure looks neat ! Even though it only shoots flares I betcha I,d have trouble getting it across the border . It just looks like too much fun and those border boys would want to keep it for themselves . Do you have an idea on the price for ordinairy flare and smoke rounds for it ?
 
Yeah, around $10 a round in a pricey catalog.

I gather most people buy reloadable aluminum hulls, and pack their own pyrotechnics. Much cheaper, I would guess around $1 a shot for flares.

Almost odd that it's legal. Must be a loophole.


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Yes. It's a flare gun (unrifled). If you fired something in it designed to kill people, you would (in ATF eyes) be using a destructive device, in this case, a weapon w/ a bore over .50 not ruled to be exempted from the prohibition...(some large bore hunting rifles are exempt, as their raison d'etre is by definition sporting; most 12 gauge shotguns are also exempted, though Stryker and Street Sweeper shotguns were arbitrarily ruled to be destructive devices, even though not functionally more effective than traditional semiauto shotguns).
 
Here's a link to an article on the Striker/Street Sweeper.

The newer, sturdier, and (I believe) more effective Saiga-12 is not federally prohibited in the US...

John

Serenity now!
 
I love that Saiga. I found out about them a couple years ago. I was like "It's a AK shotgun?!!? How much more kick ass can you get?!?!" Probably never get one though. The flare launchers are cool, but that 40MM .22 lr adapter sounds real fun. There is more than a little Beavis and Butthead in me for sure.
 
Hoo-Ha!
As long as you're outside the 5-mile limit, the ATF can't say 'boo' to you ;) Powdered aluminum repels boarders very well, might need a special primer though.
 
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