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Atypical Liberal

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11. They are expensive, specialty arms used for long-range target shooting competitions.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 08:41 AM

Dec 2012

The starting price for these weapons is about $5000. Ammunition is about $4 a shot.

I don't think a crime has ever been committed with one.

You'd be more likely for someone to commit a crime with a replica Civil War cannon. They cost about the same.

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