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the new hot product from Elon Musk is a flamethrower and this hot seller can be yours too for five hundred dollars plus tax this is a product from the boring company it is a tunnel construction company that musk founded in 2016 now on Saturday must announce the product on social media and opened up advanced orders with a limited number of 20,000 this stunt really lit up the internet musk has been tweeting sales updates with early Monday morning saying 7,000 were sold that's three and a half million dollars worth of flamethrowers oh and his company is also selling a $30 fire extinguisher naturally the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla also runs the boring company to make tunnels for the underground Hyperloop transportation system it's called boring because it bores a tunnel boring yeah he's a funny billionaire so what sparked this crazy product back in December must promise that after his boring company sold 50,000 promotional baseball caps they would start selling the boring company flamethrower and then on Christmas Eve he tweeted that the flamethrowers were coming soon so it seems interest in his joke didn't burn out and he kept true to his promise the website says the flamethrowers will ship in the spring maybe that's April maybe that's April first oh and for those of you with the burning question yes flamethrowers are legal the United States Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives allows flamethrowers just as long as the flame is shorter than 10 feet I'm Bridget Carey and be sure to leave your hot take on this sizzling marketing moment in the comments and be sure to head to see net for all the latest on eccentric tech billionaires with flamethrowers