The New York State Senate passed a bill to make possession of a flamethrower for recreational use a crime, specifically calling out Elon Musk and the Boring Company for their 'not a flamethrower' product.
"Elon Musk's Boring Company released a new flamethrower which sold out of all 20,000 within days, without any concern to the training of the purchasers or their reasons for buying. Allowing the general public to access this type of machine is extremely problematic," New York lawmakers said in justifying the legislation. "These dangerous devices should not be sold to civilians, and use needs to be restricted to trained professionals.
The Boring Company did not respond to requests for comment. The bill would make possessing a flamethrower a Class E felony, which carries aSponsored by Democratic state Sens. John Brooks and David Carlucci, the bill passed the Senate 48-13 on June 11. It defines a flamethrower as "a device capable of projecting burning fuel a distance of at least three feet." The bill hasn't come up for a vote in the Assembly yet.
It was first introduced last year after the Nassau County Fire Commission reached out to Brooks, said Michael Reid, Brooks' chief of staff. Reid said the "not a flamethrower" was also concerning to emergency medical personnel. "They were concerned that people were essentially having something that looks like a toy, is being billed as something fun to use, and there was all different stuff coming up on social media showing people really using the device as intended, which is to have fun," Reid said. "Unfortunately, firing out a burst of flame for a number of feet can have some really horrific, unintended consequences.
In the terms and conditions customers had to agree to before purchasing, Boring included a poem that read:
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