Revisiting DIY HERF Guns

An anonymous reader writes "HERF guns have previously been regarded as nothing more than an interesting project with uses ranging from at-home experiments to malicious pranks. But the deployment of 'morally gray' forms of high-tech crowd control, such as the recent use of a sound cannon against domestic protesters, along with the likely future unleashing of the pain gun on more than just 'foreign terrorists,' creates a new purpose for these relatively easily assembled devices. Could HERF guns become a new method to counter the silencing of protesters via these sophisticated attacks, or is there any other way to prevent such efficient, convenient crowd dispersal?"

Comments

From the last Slashdot article and FYI:

[FooAtWFU]

a HERF gun is "(a device like EMP but directional) ... capable of stalling cars at a distance and crashing computers as well."

Re:From the last Slashdot article and FYI:

[Brian Gordon]

I looked up what he's talking about if anyone's curious.

Apparently tempered safety glass is made to explode into tiny fragments when broken. A small shard of a very hard material will cut the glass and shatter the entire window. The classic thing to use is a piece of porcelain from the capacitor in a spark plug. There are youtube videos of people throwing that little hunk of ceramic at tempered glass and it shatters.

Re:Simple: arrest people making them

[Shadow of Eternity]

I don't know Stephen, that depends. Are they using those AP bullets against drug lords wearing body armor or are they spraying windshields on the highway after having an unmarked police car pull an illegal maneuver to give them an excuse?

This isn't using molotov's in a riot "against the man", its a bigass radio antenna that breaks high tech equipment that's used to torture people sometimes to death in the streets after a few undercover cops threw rocks out of a crowd.

The police and military are supposed to have an advantage, they're not supposed to use that advantage butcher american citizens just because its more convenient. Go read up on "Excited Delirium".