On 9/18/2014 1:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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On 9/16/2014 1:52 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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On 9/16/2014 7:47 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:

In NJ, an air gun is treated like any other gun. And no suppressors
are allowed. They're treated as our state equivalent of Title II
weapons.


You are referring to the suppressor(title II), right.

And you have to register a BB gun???

To be fair a .25 PCP "BB Gun" can easily drop a deer at 50 yards, and
the larger Sam Yang 9mm, has been used for bigger game in Africa. They
make them upto .50 cal, and a neighbor of mine has been working on air
operated automatic cannon with military applications. (well a couple
sections over)


Ok, that sounds a bit more realistic.
I was thinking "Daisy".

You want to talk about pneumatics.

Lewis and Clark carried an air rifle on their famous journey of discovery.

That was the Girandoni.
A seriously advanced piece of metalwork and design at the time.

From wiki

While the detachable air reservoir was capable of around 30 shots it
took nearly 1500 strokes of a hand pump to fill those reservoirs.
Later, a wagon-mounted pump was provided.

The reservoirs themselves, made from hammered sheet iron held together
with rivets and sealed by brazing, proved very difficult to manufacture
using the techniques of the period and were always in short supply.



Pneumatics rifles were used in combat in WWI (although I have not found
a definitive source on that).

In the late 1800s the USS Vesuvius carried pneumatic cannon with a one
mile range, that delivered explosive rounds nearly silently which made
for a tremendous psychological affect compared to conventional cannon.
There is a nice article on Wikipedia about it. One mile was considered
to short, but where it was used it was effective.