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Originally Posted by miclo18d
Not being well read in on the NFA, I have a take with state law... Even if it's not considered a weapon by the state (FL) once it is used as a weapon it has the same definition as such. E.g. If you have a baseball bat, it is just a baseball bat. If you use said baseball bat to strike someone, it is a deadly weapon. If bang stick or arrow bullet is used as intended, it is nothing but a tool for use in hunting or protection from dangerous animals. Once used against a human, it is a deadly weapon and considered just like a gun. Another example in the law is robbing a bank with a plastic gun is still armed robbery because the people you intimidated with it didn't know if it was real or not.
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In TN you don't even have to have an actual weapon. Merely stating you have one constitutes armed robbery.
As to the questions about hunting seasons. The device would fall under the primitive weapons season since the bow fired head must strike the animal to initiate any action just as a broadhead has to strike the animal in order to cut through. However, these devices being new, the politicians will have to figure it out for themselves.
Finally, as for cruelty to the animal, I see it as a smaller version of a bang stick. In a bang stick, it is not so much the shrapnel doing the damage, but the shock to the vitals caused by the explosion of the charge expanding into the body cavity. Personally, I wouldn't use these devices. I see a potential hazard from brush or whatever causing discharge of the round. I just don't know enough about how much resistance the head would need in order to discharge. I think I will stick with either a real broadhead or a rifle to go hunting.