what is meant by "deadly weapon?

Answer 1

Any weapon that might be used to injure or kill a person

Answer 2

Anything that is used in a situation to inflict fatal harm. Your hands can be considered a deadly weapon if your intent in using them is to beat someone to death. Legally speaking, a car can be a deadly weapon if you use it to run someone down. A heavy vase can be a deadly weapon if you strike someone on the head with it. The intent must be or could be fatal harm, which does not necessarily mean a death has to occur. That could also mean anything with the potential to inflict such harm, something that in most liklihood when used is used with the knowledge that it can kill, such as a gun,even if you use it to warn someone else or just to incapacitate someone, and the killing is an accident, it is a deadly weapon.

Answer 3

If a man has a deadly weapon its usually his personal tackle he keeps in his pants.
If a woman has a deadly weapon its usually a frying pan concealed in her bra.
An old person has a walking stick or doubled loaded zimmer.
Teenagers have deadly zappers on their mobiles.
Babies keep the toxic gases brewing in their nappies+ no thats not a sticky sweety lolly that kids have- its a deadly weapon!

Answer 4

A deadly weapon is any weapon which when used, can result in death - eg., deadly dead[ly].

Here is a deadly weapon - take a newspaper, roll it up tightly so that is resembles a stick. Poke this stick straight into a person's neck and it will kill them. Unroll your newspaper and read it as you walk on down the street. You will never get caught.

Answer 5

A deadly weapon is usually defined as a firearm or any object designed, made, or adapted for the purposes of inflicting death or serious physical injury.

Answer 6

It's not restricted to guns and knives...anything that can be used by a person to kill another person....could just as well be a club, a two by four, a chainsaw, a tire iron or a frozen leg of lamb.

Answer 7

Any weapon that can cause death, or any item when used forcefully can inflict enough bodily harm to cause death,ie., guns, cars, knifes, pencils, pens, pins, needles, clubs, bats, iron pipes, appliances, string, wire, hammers, plus hundreds more I have neither the time or desire to list.

Answer 8

A weapon that can be used to kill it's target.

Answer 9

a weapon...that happens to be deadly.

Answer 10

ok i c the irony here
it like having a double negative like dont not do that or saying
she had a fatal death
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i guess the weapon could almost not kill u if u use it right