• CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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    10 days ago

    They’re firearms under Canadian law, if they fire reasonably fast or have high muzzle energy, at least. And they can - Lewis and Clarke took them as weapons on their expedition. Before precision machining you would have needed quite the craftsmen to make one, though!

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Yeah well, under the law anything can be anything.

      But like if you had to be pedantic and define it.