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New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed
Ponca City, We love you writes "A gun that fires variable-speed bullets that can be set to kill, wound, or just inflict a bruise is being built by a Lund and Company Invention, a toy design studio that makes toy rockets powered by burning hydrogen obtained by electrolyzing water. The company is being funded by the US Army to adapt the technology to fire bullets instead. The new weapon, called the Variable Velocity Weapon System or VWS, lets the soldier use the same rifle for crowd control and combat, by altering the muzzle velocity. It could be loaded with 'rubber bullets' designed only to deliver blunt impacts on a person, full-speed lethal rounds, or projectiles somewhere between the two. Bruce Lund, the company's CEO, says the gun works by mixing a liquid or gaseous fuel with air in a combustion chamber behind the bullet. This determines the explosive capability of the propellant and consequently the velocity of the bullet. 'Projectile velocity varies from non-lethal at 10 meters, to lethal at 100 meters or more, as desired,' says Lund. The existing VWS design is a .50 caliber (12.7 mm) rifle weapon, but Lund says the technology can be scaled to any size, 'handgun to Howitzer.'"
i know what you mean. i'd prefer that they blow you hippie freaks away rather than just stunning you when you riot and destroy other peoples property.
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We can use it to aim da Jews more efficiently and silently.
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yes but the OP calls it a gun... i'm arguing semantics
Yes, arguing semantics. And that is why a geek *girl* has to "work twice as hard to earn half the respect" as a male geek. Not because you're female, not because we discriminate (hell we'd LOVE to see more females who care about technology), but because you want to do silly shit like argue semantics. Ah, women... I love them dearly, but they really need to get over themselves (a guy saying hello to you does not mean he wants you and will sell his soul for one night with you, despite what you think) and stop spending so much time and energy on drama and other trivial things. It's okay if you're not the center of attention at all times. Really, it is. At any rate, I hope the +1 Insightful was worth your while.
Your retarded
Whiny cunt shut the fuck up
All lofty philosophical aims fall apart when you enlist cops to help you pursue them. Cops are not philosophers. They're psychopaths.
I often tell my students over here in Japan that it's not the criminals you have to watch out for in most parts of the US, it's the cops. I've never had a criminal pull a gun on me, but twice I've had cops do it. Both times were traffic stops. I never figured out what I did to deserve looking down the barrel of my own demise. I'm always very polite to cops. Because they're fucking lunatics with guns.
Giving more tools to law enforcement is always a bad idea. They love tools.