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Remember me Log in. The marshmallow on the stick in front of me has been there for some time and appears to be giving up; it is charred black. This is also how you control the strength of the flame.

Then, once you have the gas going, you press the ignition switch near the front of the gun to light the flame; that should create the pilot flame. Then, pull the trigger to shoot the fire farther. Simple enough. This is easier said than done, perhaps because I have the weak fingers of a professional internet typist.

But eventually I do manage to light the thing, and a plume of fire shoots away from me. I love it. Is it a Bunsen burner, a propane torch or a flamethrower? I extremely do not care. It is a surprisingly heavy gun-like device that shoots flames. And it feels like a cohesive product, no matter how it was actually designed. This might explain why people are so fervent about Musk: he took a joke and made a real, fun thing.

I aim my fire at the marshmallow — I am not above beating a dead horse — and increase the flow of propane. After about 30 seconds, I screw the propane valve closed and give the flamethrower back. The convenient thing about lines of people waiting to use flamethrowers is that they have nothing better to do than talk to a journalist. This is how I meet Mike and Donna, who appear to be in their early 50s.

They are from San Pedro, and they are fans of both flamethrowers and Elon Musk. We get to see them bring it back. It looks like it went to space. Next, I talk to Anshel, who drove up from San Diego. Just use sulfurless wood matches! He pauses. An attractive young couple, Amira Yahyaoui and her companion Cyrl, are walking away from their demo. The moment it went out I was like, buy, buy, buy. Now they have to figure out how to bring it back; they are thinking UPS.

I ask Yahyaoui what she wants to do with the flamethrower. She pauses. Cyrl is no less a Musk fan, he tells me. Yahyaoui dreamed of going to space as a child, but her father told her to give it up; no Tunisian would go to space, he said. Billions of people have died on Earth but only 18 people have died during spaceflight. That's when "Greek Fire" was said to have been invented by a man named Kallinikos to defend the Byzantine Empire's capital of Constantinople, or modern-day Istanbul.

His fire siphon would squirt flames from one wooden boat to another. Not surprisingly, "it was as hazardous for the people shooting the flames as the people in the line of fire," said weapons historian Mike Loades. This volatility persisted with fire weapons through time, from catapults that launched fireballs over castle walls to the flammable liquid napalm, known for the horrific damage it caused in the Vietnam War. The Defense Department phased out incendiary weapons around the same time the United Nations banned the use of flamethrowers and napalm against civilians.

Three decades later, President Barack Obama signed that U. He probably never imagined that the use of flamethrowers by — or against — civilians on American soil might soon be an issue. But it's a concern voiced by opponents, whose numbers are likely to rise as the public becomes aware of the flamethrowers' availability. So far, the only outspoken politician on the topic is Jim Fouts, the mayor of Warren, Mich.

In a phone interview, Fouts cited all manner of potential harm, including to the person holding the flamethrower. The liquids used — gasoline, diesel fuel or napalm — are extremely flammable and could cause explosions if they leaked while the devices were in use. The creators of the X15 and the XM42 are adamant about the quality of the sealants holding their flamethrowers together and the careful inspection of each flamethrower before distribution.

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