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The could if lawmakers wanted them to. Here in Sweden potato guns are actually illegal if the potato achieves 10+ joule.

>>stefan+(OP)
That's effectively a complete ban as a thrown potato would have considerably more energy than that. A quick web search suggests professional baseball pitchers achieve ~130J, and a potato is roughly comparable to a baseball in mass.

>>Zak+w92
Yep.

I'm not saying that I'm for it, just that writing a law that bans them isn't all that hard.