I think air burst technology would be more effective for the hornet's nest idea.
XM29 Integrated Air Burst Weapon
Posted on 03/15/2006 9:47:25 AM PST by S0122017
Sorry, pepper spray is not a biological agent.
Biological agents are not derived from organisms, the definition is that they ARE organisms.
Tempest in a tea pot.
yes yes, and it will make everything otay, right?
Well whatever. But if you are going to use double standards concerning bioagents, then it will cause more problems then you think. Other countries are also going to use youre 'soft' bioagent definition.
The whole set up of Geneva was to prevent that by outlawing all bioweapons, even non-lethal ones.
The best argument i heard so far.. Alright.
But they certainly should have thought twice before using loaded words like that.
Cheers
How about loading the rifle with Sevin for total destruction of aphids in the White House Rose Garden?
Clearly, a weapon of mass destruction (WMD).
I wonder how it would go over in my neighborhood if I sat there in my front with an M-14 and added some nitrogen fertilizer to my lawn. Then maybe I could gas a few hornet's nests, and as the day wore on into the evening, I could send up some citronella clouds to keep the 'skeeters away.
I think air burst technology would be more effective for the hornet's nest idea.
XM29 Integrated Air Burst Weapon
I've seen that nifty new rifle - definitely gun porn. Looks like something that was made by Nerf in that pic though!
Hey, this patent mentions aerosol...Uh, oh, there goes the Ozone layer...
How can the US army confront terror countries because of their bio and chemical weapons, if they are cosnidering their own?
with overwhelming force
"No matter how you define bioagents, the official definition is that of a weapon. No weapon designer or researcher in their right mind would include it as 'potential use'. It would immediately classify the weapon as being part of outlawed weaponry."
By including that as a potential use we have legal means of blocking other parties from using it in that manner. Anyways, when people are writing patents they will include all sorts of claims - most of which have no relation to reality - just to try to cover all the bases.
I think you are getting excited over pretty much nothing. There are more important things to worry about IMHO.
My heart is all aflutter now that I know the guys in defense have been working with dispersing bioagents.
Really. This hysterical nonsense belongs at the DUmpster.
I use mine for delivering clouds of Old Spice to attract people to my Lemonade Stand during NASCAR events.
It's just an update of the old "rifle grenade" concept we had as far back as WWII.
Back then, you put a blank round in the chamber and mounted the "rifle grenade" on the end of the muzzle. The blank round made the rifle grenade go bang, thus launching the "grenade" farther than you could throw it. The problem with the system was that sometimes in the heat of battle guys would use live ammo instead of the blank round, usually resulting in a dead or seriously wounded GI.
This is just a rifle grenade that is designed to use live bullets instead of blanks. It looks like its main use is for delivering less-lethal munitions, which would include, by definition, chemical and biological agents. Remember, not all chemical and biological agents are necessarily for use against humans.
Ha! Tony Stewart would be proud.
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