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What Time Is It?

By Boquisucio on May 10, 2011 | | Comments (8)
It's Jörg Time, Of Course!  Come Kids - Gather 'round and watch Jörg play with his beehive implement of destructshion.



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By Gary on May 10, 2011 1:40 PM
 Well,  everyone needs a hobby..      Don't tell the guy about the invention of gunpowder,  what he would do with that would be incredible..
 
By Spiff on May 10, 2011 2:26 PM
Betcha TSA and BATF are worried and have him on their "Watch" list!!
Spiff
 
By Mark Matis on May 10, 2011 4:41 PM
Well, Spiff:
He's a German in Germany, so unless he's foolish enough to come stateside he shouldn't have to worry about them very much.  And if he DOES decide to fly across the Pond, all he needs to do is convert to the Religion of Peace and he'll be good to go!
 
By Quartermaster on May 10, 2011 7:52 PM
 German law is retrogressive for shooters. I can't remember for certain, but a reloader, for example, is allowed something like 5 pounds of smokless powder in 10 years. I think Black powder is essentially unavailable to them.

What he's doing with slingshots is just good fun for him, I'm sure. He's just a German version of a red nek and has a pick 'em up Truck which is the badge of all right thinking personnel the world over.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 10, 2011 8:04 PM
I don't recall black powder being a problem like that in Germany.  I used to buy it in bulk for the black powder cannon I had, and there was no special "Ami exemption."  I bought it at Waffen Franconia (my favorite German gun store, in Wurzburg). 

I can believe the limits on smokeless.  But - that was a long time ago, too.
 
By Argent on May 11, 2011 2:01 AM
We won't need nukes if him and Murray get together.
 
By Grumpy on May 11, 2011 1:56 PM
**GREAT, JUST GREAT, THANKS ALOT, GUYS**, now they're going to think elastic is a National Security Threat! Just think where YOU wear elastic! Elastic WILL NOT be permitted on aircraft. Y'all know what that means for the passengers, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING will flopping in the COLD FROSTY WIND! (Snark switch: OFF)  8 ^ )   
 
By Quartermaster on May 11, 2011 7:36 PM
 The limits on smokeless weren't so draconian when we were in Germany in the late 60s. I went into one German Gun Shop near Stuttgart and noted the absence of Black Powder (1969) and the clerk I spoke with said they couldn't sell it at all. Perhaps it was local conditions.

When were you in country? My father did two tours, '58-'61 and '66-'69. I was too young to remember much from the first, but was old enough to ride a bicycle amny places my father would just as soon I didn't. We lived in Pattonville from Aug '67-Oct '69 and I was rode to Flak Kaserne, which was about 5-6 miles away, and into Northern Stuttgart many times.

My father caught me almost to Robinson Barracks (the same trip I went to the gun shop) and he threatened to take my bike (which I bought as junk and rebuilt) to the sheet metal guys at Echterdingen Airfield and have them take a cutting torch to it if he caught me that far away from home again. I don't think he would have had the heart to do it, but I was much more circumspect and the test never came. The bike got passed on to the son of one of my father's buddies after I tried to seel it for $5 and no one bit. There were still too many around who remembered the original state of the hardware.