07-19-2016, 11:40 AM | #31 | |
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07-19-2016, 11:54 AM | #32 | |
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That aside, if anyone elects to carefully physically search Copley while he's carrying a highly illegal weapon... yes, he's pretty much ******. As are we if anyone searches the minibus while we're smuggling 'stolen' bioroids in Dar es Salaam (who turn into illegal immigrants once in Tanganyika, so not quite as bad there). As our cyberpunk Dar es Salaam has a high rate of violent crime (mostly ignored by the weak police force as long as it takes place in the 'vagrant' neighbourhoods and doesn't involve anyone important), but bans even stun weapons to 'vagrants' or other low Status people (though cops or guards will take much less bribing over a stun wand than real guns) and makes handguns illegal to anyone not Status 1+ or otherwise 'in' with the power structure, a lot of people are willing to buy and carry black market guns. More carry knives, of course, but anyone not confident in his ability to survive a knife fight might at least dream about owning a gun for self-defence. It doesn't matter whether it's a snub revolver some 150 years old or a high-tech synthetic low-profile automatic designed by a rabid Duncanite (and pirated by nanosocialists or plain ordinary criminals), if you get caught with it anywhere Status 1+ people might work or live, possession of it probably gets you killed by a trigger-happy thug with official status or sentenced to a fate worse than death if you survive arrest. The high-tech gun is just less likely to be found on you, especially if you try to live your life without ever talking to anyone with Status 1+ or a badge.
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07-19-2016, 12:38 PM | #33 |
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Not easy at all if trying to sell it the way you do. But if properly packaged, e.g. as a fight againt the increasingly bigbrotherly governments, with a talented memeticist, it'll have chances no worse than the more ridiculous memes that manage to survive.
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07-19-2016, 02:00 PM | #34 |
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One can find idiots who'll buy anything. But that idea is so blatantly "taking stupid personal chances in a bad cause" that it'll only get a very few idiots, who'll then find themselves tagged as an anarcho-terrorist faction and practically self-discrediting.
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It would make law enforcement easier if citizens would all agree to sit quietly at home and stare at their hands. My cop friend (who, incidentally, is just now arriving to pick me up) is fond of saying that if the police could, they'd outlaw any other activity, as likely to make their jobs harder. But to me, at least, people ought to have a fundamental right to ignore the preferences of police, as long as they don't hurt anyone else. *'Stopping a citizen and asking him politely until he explains away my grounds for suspicion' is simply a very pro-government and pro-police way to describe an arrest that may or may not last for long.
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But even here and now are people doing their best to make functional guns with 3D printers even though they can legally buy FAR better firearms.
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07-19-2016, 05:32 PM | #38 | |
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You said yourself that the item is illegal. Why shouldn't even good cops be a little bit suspicious of illegally armed suspects?
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I know I remember some incident(s) where some douche wandered residential zones weilding his legally owned rifle to promote some NRA nonsense. I think it did more to promote the opposite position.
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07-19-2016, 07:06 PM | #40 | |
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It is illegal in the dystopian CR 4-5 (Corruption -2 to -3) Dar es Salaam where our campaign is set. It is likely to be illegal in many other societies. But for the purposes of vicky's example, he specified a technically legal, but nevertheless highly suspicious weapon.
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