From: wixer!pacoid@cs.utexas.edu (Paco Xander Nathan)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 03:49:44 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Game items
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Just about any device for refining psychoactives...  Alcohol stills, for one.
We run one at home in TX, legal now, but which would have been jailbait in my
grandmere's time.

In certain parts of TX, wirecutters used to be illegal on strangers.  They
implied cattle rustling, etc.

Phone recording equipment is legal now in many areas - formerly forbidden by
wiretap laws, but now available through catalogs like Damark, etc.

It would be so easy to find counter examples - non-weapon, physical items
formerly legal, now illegal or heavily watched/licensed...  precision scales,
lab glassware, Kevlar, radio transmitters...

pacoid.