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agreed, to an extent.

I'm just curious about the armoured vehicles for personal use, paid for legititmately, equiped/ modified legitimately to compensate for basic road safeties of regular cars, and inspected by ICBC...

where do those vehicles stand now?

kinda like most of your posts

where do those vehicles stand now?

That's the point, ICBC is yanking those vehicles off the road. The RCMP is stopping known armoured vehicles and playing pass the buck with ICBC. All that's gonna do is lead to more people covertly armouring their vehicles. Like anus said, politicians need to look like they're doing something. It seems to me that a couple of recent dead gangsters could've used armoured vehicles. They'd be alive today if they'd spent the money.

(CNN) ** Crime-obsessed South Africans have a powerful new weapon with which to stop likely criminals: the car flamethrower.

Casting a man-high fireball, reportedly with no damage to the paint, the Blaster has been placed on 25 South African vehicles since its introduction last month.

At 3,900 rand ($655), it offers a cheap, dramatic defense against carjackers. It has yet to be deemed illegal.

South African courts allow killing if convinced that it's in self-defense. The defense is not unheard of. In last year's 13,000 carjackings, criminals often brandished weapons or used them with little provocation.

The Blaster squirts liquefied gas from a bottle in the automobile's trunk through two nozzles, located under the front doors. The gas is then ignited by an electric spark, with fiery consequences.

Both sides flame at the same time, regardless of whether the attack is coming from just one side of the vehicle, or whether passersby are on the other side. But the breadth and depth of blast can be modified according to individual preference.

Fire blinds, not kills, maker assures
Blaster inventor Charl Fourie, 33, disputed concerns that the flamethrower could burn someone to death.

"My personal feeling is that it would definitely blind a person. He will never see again," he said

Firefighters, medical personnel and the police agree 100 percent "that it will never kill a person," Fourie asserted. "This is definitely non-lethal.... A person is not going to stand there for a minute while you roast him. It will fend off the attacker, and that's the end of it."

sweeeetaction!

Fourie has filed an international patent application. He anticipates thousands of orders nationally and from abroad. "The demand is huge," he said.

see out there I can see a need for armored cars.. In vancouver if a private company had one or two I could see that being fine.. for private use though.. I dont see anyone needing one unless they were involved in some shady business..

no damage to the paint!!

Banning Armored cars isn't gonna stop violence or people from joining gangs, if they want someone dead they will take them out in a car or not. The only benefit I see is that it helps the police from running into situations where they have to stop one of these vehicles if something were to happen