daveman
Diamond Member
There is no Federal law against cannon.That is your confused opinion. Explain what you had to go through legally to fire that weapon. Or did you break the law. This is on you guys to justify your positions. Otherwise you are simply giving assertions without facts and evidence.That is a fact. ^^^ I fired a 4 incher off at 11 am on 7/4/76 in cooperation with Gerald Ford's request to make a lot of noise to celebrate the bicentennial.Someone somewhere said that privateers had privately-owned cannons. They could not use them offensively without a letter de marque, I believe. If I am wrong, please correct me.
I can legally own a cannon today.
The new guy isn't all that smart...but then he is a liberal.
26 USC sec. 5845(g) "Antique firearm.-The term 'antique firearm' means any firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system or replicas thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade." Because our black powder cannons are loaded with propellant separate from the projectile, uses simple cannon fuse for ignition, and is patterned after typicall 19th centrury artillery pieces, it is falls clearly under the federal definition of a replica firearm.
There may be state laws. Varies from state to state.