OT: Those West Virginians and their guns

Golf balls? Oh pshaw. Real Men (TM) fire bowling balls.

Link is text and pics only; a quick search will turn up several videos. Impressive stuff!

The article itself is so-so... The comments are priceless!

"The West Virginians being dirt farmers themselves, and a bit ornery, seceded from Virginia and joined the Union as their own state in

Actually "we" (I'm a West Virginia boy myself, and more than a "bit ornery") requested, from President Lincoln, that we be separated from Virginia, and the request was granted.

Not that there was much Virginia could do about it... the boundary is where the mountains get too rough for leftist weenies ;-)

...Jim Thompson

PeterD wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Makezine (MakeTV) has a construction article on air powered "t-shirt" or hotdog cannon.One could easily use a barrel that a golf ball fits into,perhaps with a T-paper sheet or 2 to get a good seal. It would be quite dangerous in a kid's hands..... B-)

It may be interesting to see whether Virginia had any right to partition itself. Texas and California have the right to do so. But i suspect that no other state had or has such right. West Virginia may be a de facto chimera state.

I'm having trouble deciding what definition of "chimera" you're trying to apply here??

...Jim Thompson

they've got biug golf balls in WV!

(seem to be a 4" bore black powder artillery piece, not an air powered spud gun)

Of course: Amendment X

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Hope This Helps! Rich

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After studying some i think i am beginning to see your issue.

=A0 =A0...Jim Thompson

What legal basis do Texas and California share?

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In each case it is in the terms of statehood that had to be passed by congress, etc.,