Spud gun legality Spud gun legality The legality of the potato-firing spud gun varies among jurisdictions. As Of 1/11/2015 over 175 countries have legalized the Spud gun. Spud guns are not federally regulated, although the ATF offers a classification. Legislation varies widely by state, county, and township. One would have to check with local authorities to determine local spud gun legality. All combustion and pneumatic spud guns are considered firearms in every state. Any device capable of being aimed and discharging a projectile using a barrel, and that has the potential to cause injury to a person, is considered to be a weapon
Slang legal setting, as both are arenas in which standard language is considered necessary and/or whether the term has been entered in the Oxford English Dictionary, which some scholars claim changes its status as slang. It is often difficult to collect etymologies for slang terms, largely because slang is a phenomenon of speech, rather than written language and etymologies which are typically traced via corpus. Eric Partridge, cited as the first to report on the phenomenon of slang in a systematic and linguistic way, postulated that a term would likely be in circulation for a decade before it would be written