20 of the Most Dangerous Items People Legally Own

Oh, beautiful, for spacious skies, for loose regulations. That’s how the words go, right? As many things as the U.S. has going for it — chili dogs, Disney parks, Target, etc. — it all comes at the price of some pretty lenient safety laws. (Or, depending on your brand of eccentricity, that’s just an additional feature.) That’s freedom, baby. Love it and/or die horribly.

That means there’s a lot of items you wouldn’t think your average everyday citizen would be allowed to own. Hell, there’s probably a death trap or two just lurking quietly in your kitchen right now that we’ve normalized despite being a medieval peasant’s nightmare, and those people had the plague. That’s why user DreamMighty asked r/AskReddit, “What is the most dangerous but totally legal item you own?”