German potato bazookas to be regulated

Cory Doctorow 8:15 am Wed Jan 29, 2003

German kids have a new zip-gun: the potato-bazooka. Made by duct-taping one end of a pipe, and then loading it with hairspray and a potato, the gun is fired by touching off the harispray and blowing the potato forward at great speed:

With a range of 200 metres they could split a man's head at 15 metres and penetrate a wooden wall at 90 metres.

The guns are not governed by the usual strict firearms regulations in Germany, but prosecutors in the republic's 16 states are passing emergency rulings to try to outlaw them.

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