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You Can Now Buy a Practical Gauss Gun
Hack A Day ^
| 12JUL18
| Tom Nardi
Posted on 07/26/2018 6:24:42 PM PDT by vannrox
Occasionally we come across a piece of information which reminds us that, while flying cars are still nowhere to be found, we’re definitely living in the future. Usually it’s about some new application of artificial intelligence, or maybe another success in the rapidly developing field of private spaceflight. But sometimes it’s when you look at a website and say to yourself: “Oh cool, they have 1.5kW electromagnetic accelerators in stock.”
Arcflash Labs, a partnership between [David Wirth] and [Jason Murray], have put their EMG-01A Gauss gun up for sale for anyone who’s brave enough and willing to put down $1,000 USD on what’s essentially a high-tech BB gun. The creators claim it obtains an efficiency of 6.5% out of its RC-style 6S LiPo battery pack, which allows it to fire over 100 rounds before needing to be recharged. Firing 4.6g steel projectiles at a rather leisurely 45 m/s, this futuristic weapon would be more of a match for tin cans than invading alien forces, but at least you’ll be blasting those cans from a position of supreme technical superiority.
The EMG-01A builds on the work of the team’s previous experiments, such as the semi-automatic railgun we covered last year. They’ve made the device much smaller and lighter than their previous guns, as well as worked on making them safer and more reliable. That said, the page for the EMG-01A has a number of warnings and caveats that you won’t see on the back of a Red Ryder BB gun box; it’s certainly not a toy, and anyone who takes ownership of one needs to be respectful of the responsibility they’re taking on.
Speaking of which, who can actually buy one of these things? The Arcflash Labs site makes it clear they will only ship to the United States, and further gives a list of states and cities were they can’t send a completed gun. Essentially they are following the same laws and guidelines used for shipping air guns within the US, as they believe that’s a fair classification for their electromagnetic guns. Whether or not the ATF feels the same way is unclear, and it should be interesting to see what kind of legal response there may be if Arcflash Labs starts moving enough units.
If you’d like to wage warfare on your recyclables without spending quite so much cash, you can always build your own for less. Or nearly nothing, if you want to go the full MacGyver route.
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I want one.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:24:42 PM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
I want a plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:29:34 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is ba fraud.,)
To: vannrox
I would rather have a .50 caliber ball air gun with decent velocity.
Set it up in a field at night with thermal optics and silently kill feral hogs.
Toy linear accelerator rifles get you tin cans.
Functional large caliber air guns get you bacon.
Bacon > tin cans.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:30:38 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: vannrox
Let’s see if hackers can modify the Gauss gun, installing LN2-cooled superconducting magnets and kilofarad capacitors to get the projectile velocity up to at least Mach 3.
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:31:39 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Hugin
Ha. I came looking for that comment. #2. You didn’t disappoint.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:33:35 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( Tagline disabled.)
To: Hugin
Just what you see here, pal.
L
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:35:49 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: vannrox
All I need is a Flux Capacitor, and the next time my neighbor turns on his boom box, its Over ...
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:41:37 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Only MS-13 and Democrats want ICE Abolished)
To: vannrox
California legislation to block the ownership of these in 5, 4, 3, 2...
I'll be adding this to my posts for a few days, once per thread I participate on.
Red Pill People > We Need to Know About
John Stossil intro explains: (first three people)
Candace Owens
Brandon Tatum
CJ Pearson
Larry Elder (Conservative talk show host - Los Angeles / back into the 80s [ I believe ] )
Jesse Lee Peterson (someone we've known about since before 2001)
These people are opening up the eyes of Blacks from within their ranks.
I think it's important we know who they are and promote them when we can.
I may be the last to know of them, but I don't want anyone else not to know, so here's the info.
Even if you knew about them before, this might be a decent resource for finding their work.
When you hit the links above, you'll see Google's information page.
You'll be able to learn more about them using links there.
Click on the VIDEO button at the top and you'll be taken to a list of their YouTube videos.
Enjoy.
I'm sure I've left people out, so I'd appreciate folks mentioning them to me so I can add them to this short list.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:48:43 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
To: Hugin
"I want a plasma rifle in the 40 watt range."
Here ya go:
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:48:52 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: vannrox
Counting down to Chunks Schumer calling a press conference to ban this thing in three, two, one...
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:50:01 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
To: 11th_VA
****the next time my neighbor turns on his boom box, its Over .***
I could have used one of those today while I was getting gas. Some idiot pulled in, radio blaring, went in the store, radio still blaring. You could have heard it for a mile.
To: DoughtyOne
New Jersey already made THINKING ABOUT IT illegal. You can’t even picture it in your mind without going to jail.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:51:59 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: NFHale
LOL
Now that's funny, unless you wanted one real bad.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:54:27 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
To: NFHale
“New Jersey already made THINKING ABOUT IT illegal.”
New York is proposing legislation to require future Governments to send agents back in time to terminate the concept before it is even developed.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:54:31 PM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: MrEdd
I would rather have a .50 caliber ball air gun with decent velocity.
I have a friend who has one in .45. It throws the projectile at right around 950fps.
L
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:54:42 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: KC_Lion; BenLurkin; Lazamataz
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:56:39 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Whose Gonna Fill Their Shoes...?)
To: Hugin
Better if it’s phased plasma.....;)
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:56:51 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: DoughtyOne
WANTING one is even TWICE as illegal....
Don’t even glance back... there’s a Jersey cop following you already...
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:58:00 PM PDT
by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: vannrox
Dude, it’s like those Marine plasma rifles in Aliens.
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posted on
07/26/2018 6:58:05 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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