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Gauss' GP-219 electromagnetic pistol fires steel projectiles silently
Engadget ^ | 12.23.2006 | Darren Murph

Posted on 05/11/2018 7:06:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz

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To: Lazamataz

What are the ballistics?


21 posted on 05/11/2018 7:56:43 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: The Toll

We need one or two of these though.


22 posted on 05/11/2018 7:59:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Lazamataz

The first time you really need it, the batteries will be dead.


23 posted on 05/11/2018 8:04:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Lazamataz
It's a BFG9000!


24 posted on 05/11/2018 8:05:03 AM PDT by FXRP (Just me and the pygmy pony)
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To: bgill

“The first time you really need it, the batteries will be dead.”

And that is why, when it absolutely must start, even after decades of storage, nothing beats a pyrotechnic initiated, molten-salt-electrolyte battery.


25 posted on 05/11/2018 8:47:45 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Lazamataz

More than ten rounds?


26 posted on 05/11/2018 9:03:21 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Lazamataz
Meanwhile...
27 posted on 05/11/2018 9:28:46 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Flick Lives

You can defeat these guns with a water pistol.
Fire and electrocute the bad guy.


28 posted on 05/11/2018 10:31:18 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Lazamataz

Still not a “Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.”


29 posted on 05/11/2018 5:20:37 PM PDT by jim_trent
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