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retrospec2017-06-02 05:55 pm
standalonehuman) wrote in retrospec2017-06-02 05:55 pm
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Public Service Announcement: Weapons Laws
Hello. For those of you who haven’t met me, this is Officer Hitori Togusa, Recolle Police Department. I wanted to address the fact that quite a few people have been receiving weapons from Retrospec. We’ve been seeing weapons of all kinds, firearms, bladed weapons, things that you would normally see in a martial arts movie. Secondly, we’ve gotten reports that attempts to get rid of these items do not work. Retrospec has somehow gotten ahold of them and sent them back to users if they are thrown away or confiscated.
So let’s talk safety, instead. Weapons laws are in place for the safety of not just the public, but of the users of these weapons. There are a lot of details to these laws, but I wanted to provide a quick overview for people, so that we can all get through this situation a lot more safely and responsibly.
In short, no, we can’t go around confiscating everyone’s weapons, and frankly, we don’t want to. Especially after last month, it would be unfair to disarm everybody. But people are also getting back weapons that they don’t know how to use, or things they’ve never seen before. So my goal here is really just to make everybody safer in this situation we’ve been thrown into.
Firearms: A lot of people have been getting firearms of all kinds, pistols, rifles, even some guns that don’t fire physical projectiles. For gun ownership, my first piece of advice would be to go to the Deadeye shooting range and take their basic safety course. It is a requirement if you want to register your weapon, which we’ll get to in a minute. But learn how to handle the gun, how to store it, how to clean it, there’s a lot more than just learning to fire it properly.
Registration is a different matter. Retrospec seems to have no consideration of gun laws, so the possiblity that people under the legal age have been handed firearms is strong. In those cases, if there’s a way that the gun can be registered under a parent or guardian, I would very highly suggest it. But, if you want to carry your gun at all, it needs to be registered with the Public Safety Office. As a side note, concealed carry is a complete other matter, and requires an extra course and a background check to be able to do that. Follow up with anyone at the Police Department or Public Safety if you really want to know what you have to do for a concealed permit for a handgun.
But what about those guns that don’t fire projectiles? Despite the name, are they still firearms if they shoot fire? Or lasers? Under the national guidelines, they still count as a ‘destructive device.’ On this one, the law has taken into account that weapons technology is getting more advanced. They still can be legally registered.
What if the gun you got is older, or seems to have a flintlock mechanism? The registration you might look for here would be to register it as an antique, or as a show piece. There’s also a special registration for black powder weapons, and I can’t believe I have to point that out, but I’m trying to cover everyone’s bases here.
What if you got a fully-automatic rifle? In that case, we’re going to have to talk, there’s no two ways around it. Bring it to one of the Officers who is on the application. Again, we don’t want to confiscate it, since we can’t, but we want to make sure these are handled as safely as possible.
Knives and Swords: The good news is that there isn’t an age limit on ownership of knives and swords. There’s an age limit on purchasing swords, but for some reason, once you have it, there’s no problem.
The bad news is carrying them around. Concealed carry is illegal, so if you have to carry that katana with you because we’re six inches tall again and there are rats going to kill us? Don’t hide it. Carry of weapons with a spring-action is illegal, as are ballisong-type folding blades.
Swords also come with their own safety and care, especially katanas, but I don’t know who is the best authority on this matter. If anyone has experience in iaijitsu, kendo, or the like, please speak up, I’m sure there are people out there who suddenly have swords that they would not like to rust away.
Non-traditional blades fall under a lot of the same rules. I’ve seen people mentioning spears? Multiple people? Retrospec, you’ve got an odd sense of humor. Concealed carry isn’t permitted, even though it would be a lot harder with that sort of weapon.
I have to make a last note for weapons that don’t seem to physically exist. Things that exist as a part of a power set, or might be tied to an individual’s spirit. This last month has been very trying for my sense of what is real and what isn’t? But that’s no reason for me to ignore what I’m seeing.
We can’t regulate the powers that people are attaining. We shouldn’t regulate the powers that people are getting. They’re a part of you, you didn’t do anything wrong to get them, and even if they feel like they might be dangerous? Persecuting you for it is absolutely wrong. I can only urge you to try to learn how to use them, it would be your personal responsibility to keep the people around you safe. And it would be wrong of me or any other authority to try to take that responsibility out of your hands. It’s something that you are, not something that you just have.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I’m unwilling to believe that we can’t keep this city safer if we just keep in communication with each other and stick as close to the law as Retrospec is allowing us to.
Thank you.
So let’s talk safety, instead. Weapons laws are in place for the safety of not just the public, but of the users of these weapons. There are a lot of details to these laws, but I wanted to provide a quick overview for people, so that we can all get through this situation a lot more safely and responsibly.
In short, no, we can’t go around confiscating everyone’s weapons, and frankly, we don’t want to. Especially after last month, it would be unfair to disarm everybody. But people are also getting back weapons that they don’t know how to use, or things they’ve never seen before. So my goal here is really just to make everybody safer in this situation we’ve been thrown into.
Firearms: A lot of people have been getting firearms of all kinds, pistols, rifles, even some guns that don’t fire physical projectiles. For gun ownership, my first piece of advice would be to go to the Deadeye shooting range and take their basic safety course. It is a requirement if you want to register your weapon, which we’ll get to in a minute. But learn how to handle the gun, how to store it, how to clean it, there’s a lot more than just learning to fire it properly.
Registration is a different matter. Retrospec seems to have no consideration of gun laws, so the possiblity that people under the legal age have been handed firearms is strong. In those cases, if there’s a way that the gun can be registered under a parent or guardian, I would very highly suggest it. But, if you want to carry your gun at all, it needs to be registered with the Public Safety Office. As a side note, concealed carry is a complete other matter, and requires an extra course and a background check to be able to do that. Follow up with anyone at the Police Department or Public Safety if you really want to know what you have to do for a concealed permit for a handgun.
But what about those guns that don’t fire projectiles? Despite the name, are they still firearms if they shoot fire? Or lasers? Under the national guidelines, they still count as a ‘destructive device.’ On this one, the law has taken into account that weapons technology is getting more advanced. They still can be legally registered.
What if the gun you got is older, or seems to have a flintlock mechanism? The registration you might look for here would be to register it as an antique, or as a show piece. There’s also a special registration for black powder weapons, and I can’t believe I have to point that out, but I’m trying to cover everyone’s bases here.
What if you got a fully-automatic rifle? In that case, we’re going to have to talk, there’s no two ways around it. Bring it to one of the Officers who is on the application. Again, we don’t want to confiscate it, since we can’t, but we want to make sure these are handled as safely as possible.
Knives and Swords: The good news is that there isn’t an age limit on ownership of knives and swords. There’s an age limit on purchasing swords, but for some reason, once you have it, there’s no problem.
The bad news is carrying them around. Concealed carry is illegal, so if you have to carry that katana with you because we’re six inches tall again and there are rats going to kill us? Don’t hide it. Carry of weapons with a spring-action is illegal, as are ballisong-type folding blades.
Swords also come with their own safety and care, especially katanas, but I don’t know who is the best authority on this matter. If anyone has experience in iaijitsu, kendo, or the like, please speak up, I’m sure there are people out there who suddenly have swords that they would not like to rust away.
Non-traditional blades fall under a lot of the same rules. I’ve seen people mentioning spears? Multiple people? Retrospec, you’ve got an odd sense of humor. Concealed carry isn’t permitted, even though it would be a lot harder with that sort of weapon.
I have to make a last note for weapons that don’t seem to physically exist. Things that exist as a part of a power set, or might be tied to an individual’s spirit. This last month has been very trying for my sense of what is real and what isn’t? But that’s no reason for me to ignore what I’m seeing.
We can’t regulate the powers that people are attaining. We shouldn’t regulate the powers that people are getting. They’re a part of you, you didn’t do anything wrong to get them, and even if they feel like they might be dangerous? Persecuting you for it is absolutely wrong. I can only urge you to try to learn how to use them, it would be your personal responsibility to keep the people around you safe. And it would be wrong of me or any other authority to try to take that responsibility out of your hands. It’s something that you are, not something that you just have.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I’m unwilling to believe that we can’t keep this city safer if we just keep in communication with each other and stick as close to the law as Retrospec is allowing us to.
Thank you.
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[ He doesn’t know much about guns and he doesn’t know much about movies but he remembers details. ]
They did that to make sure that you would and could keep it? The lengths they go through keeps on surprising.
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I mean. Not that I'm keeping it. The damn thing is going back in the box now.
But it's doubly frustrating, if I hadn't had this, if it hadn't changed size with the rest of us? I probably would have gotten seriously hurt the other month.
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Best place to keep it, I guess.
At least it did something good, then.
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[Togusa, please stop being a nerd and remember who you're talking to for a second.]
Short answer: somebody put a lot of time and customization into this gun.
And it's a good thing I'm a cop or my google search history from learning all this would look really questionable.
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[ You know it’s true dear friend. ]
A lot of love might have gone into it, then.
Is that so?
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If this is something that was supposedly from a different version of me? In the past, another life or whatever? Maybe this is the first time I can understand that other Hitori. And that's not a bad thing.
You're right, he liked this gun. A lot. Maybe he was better at using it than I am, then.
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We can't know for sure, but when someone loves something they do like to practice more and get better at it.
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What if it does happen, though? Just I fire one too many times, and it's like everyone else suddenly remembering things. If I didn't put the work in, but the switch flips, and I'm a great shot anyway? All the work I have been putting in is suddenly overwritten. I'd hate that.
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I have been working. I have been trying to get better. But this other Hitori Togusa did, too? And so it would be more like we're working together.
But would you be okay with that? If the other Koutarou Takao has put their time in to a skill that you want to reject? And then suddenly you get good at it. I hate to bring it up, but you got a gun, too. What if what they put their time into is at odds with what you want to put your time into?
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If it’s at odds, I don’t know. I don’t exactly want to be good at that sort of thing. I’ll think about it when it comes to it.
But well, I also had a vision of doing wood carving, a bit back, so I’m guessing the other Koutarou has some skill in that.
[ For his wife, specifically. But he’ll tell him that later.
Maybe next month.]no subject
There are so few people I can directly help with what they're going through. I can help you.
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I think that at least for the time being, I'd rather keep it hidden somewhere. Out of sight doesn't really mean out of mind but at least if it is out of sight, there's no constant reminder of it.