Encrypted Ammunition?

holy_calamity writes "A patent has been filed for bullets with built-in encryption. Pulling the trigger sends a radio signal to the cartridge in the chamber, but the charge only goes off if the right encryption key is sent. The aim is to improve civilian firearm security." Not sure I'm quite ready to trust the average techno-gadget failure rate on something like this just yet.

Comments

Re:It's becomming obligatory

[Princeofcups]

"I'm tired of it. Just let me shoot my gun."

Personally, I'd rather that you didn't.

jfs

Re:A big waste, considering the commodity...

[P3NIS_CLEAVER]

A very large number of police have been shot by their own guns.

Re:Please be honest:

[alfs boner]

Ever dealt with a poisonous snake cornered in a barn? A 160-pound wounded buck crashing around your back yard? A rabid raccoon threatening a domestic pet? A coyote stalking your neighborhood kids and animals? A mountain lion raiding a camp site?

No, because unlike you, I graduated college. Unlike you, I had a decent upbringing. See, while you were busy pulling legs off spiders, I was learning things, vacationing in europe, learning languages- improving myself, and giving myself a better shot in life. I wanted something more than camouflage fatigues and drunk, sub-literate "buddies." 'Wannabe-park-ranger' is nothing to aspire to.

Perhaps instead of hanging out at the "shooting range," you should have spent more time at what I like to call the "book range," or the "reading range."