• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Not just Nebraska but most, possibly all, US states. From what I’ve seen, anyhow. Hence my note about it being a term of art. In the law books it doesn’t mean the same thing normal people think it ought to mean.

    (Same thing with “assault,” incidentally.)

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      2 days ago

      Well shit, TIL.

      Genuienly thank you for the uh… legal education, I guess you’d say.

      Maybe its just that the state I am from is particularly weird about this, or maybe I just had an unfounded notion.

      Either way, always appreciate being less wrong.

      And yeah woooey assault is not what most people think it is, either as a crime in and of itself, or, as a descriptor of a class of weapons.