Comment on America has a solution for everything

NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At that range, absolutely. A blank will blow a sizable hole in a rat or mole. People die every year from the perception that blanks are “safe”; aside from any barrel debris or wadding that may be ejected, they are still completely lethal at very close ranges because of the pressure wave.

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So outside of being loud, expensive, messy, overkill, and dangerous, what is the downside?

    Actually, I kind of wish this did catch on for more grocery aisle acceptable type items. Like right next to rat poison and car air fresheners.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For what it’s worth, you can buy blank refills for mole traps / nail guns at my local supermarket and they are in fact right next to the rat poison and air fresheners.

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      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fascinating; I bet our urban grocery stores have more holistic options and, behind the curtains, large-scale commercial solutions. Somewhere in the middle is the perfect store, where a man can choose every option on how to kill rodents while making that lingering smell a little more tolerable.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At that range, probably.

  But you could defintely run this with shotshells full of rat shot, and that would upgrade it from ‘probably’ to ‘certainly’ while still being reasonably safe-ish.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yep. It’s a old-school black powder revolver. Stuff about anything in there and it’ll do a rat at that range.

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• naeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We have traps for moles with blanks

  Inside their hole that’s more than enough

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