With Musk’s flamethrowers sold out, Congress floats a ban on the devices

By Chris Eger

While Musk has taken orders for 20,000 of his flame devices, members of Congress are taking aim at regulating them– though the language of the proposed ban would likely skip over The Boring Company’s new design. (Photo: The Boring Company)
Just days after tech billionaire Elon Musk announced massive flamethrower sales, a pair of New York Democrats filed legislation to treat flamethrowers as a machine gun.
Introduced Tuesday by U.S. Reps. Eliot Engel and Carolyn Maloney, H.R.4901 would add a definition to federal law of a flamethrower and regulate them largely out of existence except for law enforcement users.
The bill was filed the day after Musk’s $500 black and white rifle-like torch device was hyped by the Tesla and SpaceX tech mogul who announced that $5 million worth were sold were sold in the first weekend of preorders. The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company started by Musk in 2016, markets the devices as part of a fundraiser for planned infrastructure projects and is set to sell a limited run of 20,000, which are now sold out.
The proposed legislation would define a flamethrower as any “nonstationary or transportable device designed or intended to ignite and then emit or propel a burning stream

Source: Guns.com