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Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions

Posted by michael on from the say-cheese dept.

Diabolus writes "This is the tale of a man, a bunch of disposable cameras, and his techniques for harvesting lots of capacitors to build a gauss gun. Insane..." A basic capacitor tutorial is probably in order.

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  1. Re:IANAL, but.. by Capsaicin · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Do you see the Second Amendment there in the U.S. Constitution?

    1. Adelaide is not yet in the U.S.

    2. I can't see how his building the gun is reasonably related to the maintainance of a state militia. So the 2nd amendment wouldn't apply anyway.

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