At 05:23 PM 11/19/2001 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote: >On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > > > Won't work on Berkeley, though. The City Council declared Berkeley a > > "Nuclear Free Zone." Guess that leaves only conventional weapons. > >Those restrictions usually also prohibit the *design* of nuclear weapons >(don't know if Berzerkeley's does) in which case they are >unconstitutional because of the First.
The ban implicitly covers americium-based smoke detectors, but fortunately when I lived in the East Bay I was a few blocks out of Hayward city limits so I could use them, as long as I drove the long way around when I bought more :-)
