Victorian police have banned the use of T-shirt cannons at AFL matches after it was deemed they were too dangerous to be operated without a license.

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The cannons are classified as a category E firearm which would require a special license that police have said they will not be granting to AFL clubs.

Other weapons in this category include shotguns, bazookas and mortars.

Police said they couldn't justify giving clubs a license as there was no "genuine need" for them.

One AFL club executive told the Herald Sun that the ban was "ridiculous."

"The fun police have really come out to play this time," he said.

North Melbourne have been one club to adopt the cannons, popular at sporting events in the US.

AFL clubs equipment hasn't quite reached the level of this impressive implement from Alabama's Auburn University.

The news will be a bitter pill to swallow for the Flanders family, who lost Maude to a T-shirt cannon accident.