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Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com)
turkeydance writes: Using a combination of 3D printing and widely available components, David Wirth built a functioning handheld railgun that houses six capacitors and delivers more than 1,800 joules of energy per shot. So far he has tested the gun using metal rods made of graphite, aluminum and copper-coated tungsten. David has shot projectiles at over 250 meters per second in tests.
When is murder control going to stop murder?
The whole argument that people can get guns anyway is stupid. If only criminals have guns it will be damn easy to identify them and lock them up.
If only criminals have guns it will be damn easy to identify them and lock them up.
True-ish, but the devil is in the details... you'd probably need a lot more law enforcers to be able to do that. AKA a "police state".
Sweden respectfully disagrees.
it's in my head
"Uncontrolled immigration", yeah... Another one that has drunk the cool-aid of the now-said-to-be-reformed-racist extremists. The likes of you are more a part of the problem than the solution.
I used to live in one of the said "ghettos" for the first 25 years of my life, and believe me, the crime rate there isn't higher than in the central parts of the big cities, quite the contrary. Also ghetto is a very strong word, so I guess that you have never set foot in one of these areas, nor seen a real ghetto, or else your retorics would be quite different.
The problems in Sweden are with criminals, not immigrants per se. Anyone alienated from society have to find new ways to get by and most does in peaceful and meaning ful ways, forming their own groups within society (sad to see competence wasted this way because we are too stupid and stubborn to let good people find good work). A few turn to crime, but from the criminals I have met more have had "pure" swedish background than being first or second generation immigrants.
But making up "facts" to support one's twisted world view is standard practice within these extremist circles, so I am not surprised at all.
tiny police force strained from uncontrolled immigration things are about to get ugly.
It's nice to be able to hide one's racist views behind the anonymous moniker, isn't it?
With a fascist government you wouldn't be able to.
it's in my head
This thing is less powerful than other youtube handheld rail guns... and the design while funny is not especially practical. Obviously the capacitors need to be mounted on your back or something to distribute the weight more effectively on the user.
*drops mic and walks*
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Hmm, interesting, that's the gun that our government (Iceland) was secretly smuggling into the country (bypassing all customs processes and parliament) with the intent to have one in every police car. And then when caught claimed that it was a "gift" from Norway. And when Norway said that no, it's not a gift, you deliberately sought them out and offered to purchase them from us, they "clarified" that Norway marks things as sales for billing purposes, but they never send the bill, it's just a little wink-wink nudge-nudge game between friends. And when Norway said no, we promise you, we're sending the bill.... half a year later they eventually sent the guns back.
But I guess we have to do something about our one-of-the-lowest-on-Earth murder rates**, and the threat that ISIS wants to take over our rock in the North Atlantic (yes, these are the actual arguments made by proponents...)
** In its entire history, our equivalent of SWAT (Víkingasveitin / The Viking Squad) has had to kill a grand total of one person. And they issued an apology to his family for it (the guy was mentally disturbed and shooting at them with a shotgun in a densely populated area, hitting one officer before they decided to try tear gas, hit another after they tried to get him out with gas, and finally hitting another while they went in after him, before they finally had to shoot him).
The War of 1812... the good 'ol days when the federal government actually tried to save New Orleans.