Talk About REALLY STUPID Gun Laws!

Slug-Gunner

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Here is a list of some REALLY STUPID Gun Laws I got from "Politically Correct Guns" by Alan Gottlieb.

1. Did you know that in Pickens, Oklahoma, it's strictly a violation of the law for a woman over 200 lbs. and attired in shorts to carry a gun while riding a horse in public.

2. On to So. Carolina: Church-going family men are required by state law to "carry two loaded horse pistols, in good working order" when taking the family to church or to any church-related activities. That's to keep the men from carrying old rusty inoperable horse pistols, which would be unsightly.

3. Now up in Michigan: Maple Ridge forbids women to hold a gun in their lap and read the Sunday paper while sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch.

4. Old Furnace, Massachusetts, has a law against whistling while carrying a gun over your shoulder on Sunday.

5. Florida: Women can't shoot the hats from the heads of other women citizens while walking down the street. Let's see if we can figure out why that law was passed. No, let's don't.

6. Well, it sounds fair: in Mississippi's common law, "Every citizen has the right to shoot to kill, if necessary, when escorting a woman home from a quilting party and another man interferes and threatens to shoot him. Those quilting parties can get pretty wild, you know.

7. Cascade, Iowa: It's illegal to duel with water pistols. A conservation law, no doubt.

8. A law for sissies: If you're a woman in Pattonsburg, Missouri, you can be arrested if you make "silly or insulting faces" at a man while he's practicing his shooting skills. The guys in that town must need the practice.

9. They're much more reasonable in Wakefield, Rhode Island: There, a woman may not shoot in the direction of a policeman with the intent to shoot off his necktie. Just plain common sense if you ask me.

10. But you have to go to Texas for a truly rational approach to crime: Not long ago, Texas passed what is known as its anti-crime law. The statute requires a criminal to give the intended victim 24 hours' notice, either orally or in writing. The victim must be properly notified of the nature of the crime to be committed and the time and place at which it will happen. Victims, I assume, need not R.S.V.P. the criminal. That's just to cute.

11. In Spades, Indiana, you aren't allowed to open a can of food by shooting at it with a revolver. The law is silent on whether you can use a rifle or shotgun.

12. All you graduates of the Jedi Academy, tell Yoda and Luke Skywalker not to visit North Andover, Massachusetts, where a local law prevents citizens from carrying "space guns." But I wonder if you can carry your "Light Saber"?

13. Be a man, use a gun! Truro, Mississippi, requires a young suitor to "prove himself manly" to both bride and future father-in-law. The hopeful swain must proceed to the woods and there shoot six blackbirds -- or three crows if blackbirds prove uncooperative. The dead birds must then be presented to the prospective father-in-law as proof of the young man's masculinity.

14. None of this namby pamby-stuff for Kentucky: It's a criminal offense there to fire a gun that isn't loaded. Tough on crime, that's Kentucky. Can't you just hear the police dispatcher call: "Car 14, proceed to convenience store. Use extreme caution.... shots fired from unloaded gun."

15: Institutionalized racism: Okalahoma law says that the only time a person may legally carry a gun is while being "chased by an Indian." I thought Indians were persons. And can Native Americans carry a gun while being chased by non-Indians?

16. Fashion prejudice: Burdoville, Vermont, requires all woman who carry guns to avoid wearing high-heels. Gun-toting women may have shoe heels no higher than one and a half inches high.

17. In Bourbon, Mississippi, only men and law officers can carry a wooden gun. Probably because women aren't dumb enough to carry wooden guns.

Well folks, that's Gun Law, USA.

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I guess that just goes to prove that politicians have been passing STUPID GUN LAWS for almost as long as there has been politicians. They haven't gotten any smarter in over two centuries now.

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