If you are determined to commit a crime, laws won’t stand in your way. The former PM of japan was gunned down with the cheapest POS zip gun imaginable.
It seems even the black powder was home made.
The future is now!
According to THIS ARTICLE, a drone of this kind runs around $20,000. That’s a lot. But the payload is 11 handguns… purchased in the US for perhaps $200 each, sold in Canada for up to $3000 each, the profit would be about $30,800 per run: you could simply throw the drone away each time in still rake in substantial cash profit. Fly it two or three times – a job of a few hours – and you’ve got yourself a decent yearly salary right there.
Illegal? Sure. Wrong? Ummm… Given what current Canadian dictator Justin Trudeau has said about Canadians not having the right to defend themselves, delivering them the *means* of self defense is not wrong. Sadly, of course, these gun are highly unlikely to be going to average Canadians, but more likely gang members, “migrants” and other members of the criminal element… but the potential still stands for simple robotics to be useful for delivering the means of self defense to regular people. Further afield, drone deliveries could be used to drop off ammo (bullets, grenades, rockets, etc.) to Ukrainian defense forces. There, of course, care would have to be taken to make sure that that drone delivering weapons to you won’t be using those weapons *on* you. Similarly, the use of drones along the US-Canadian border would have to be done with care; I would not be surprised if authoritarian, anti-human-rights types like “Fang Fang Swalwell” wouldn’t sabotage the effort by swapping out good guns for compromised weapons, or even weapons that have poison or polonium dusted onto them.
Shazam!
Brandon Herrera walks us through the history and workings of Hiram Maxim’s machine gun… designed waaaaay back in 1884. The period from 1850 to 1950 has got to be the most amazing time in terms of technological advancement actually and obviously changing things, and military tech was a large part of it. Interestingly, what the Maxim did is pretty much exactly what modern machine guns do; the lead it sent downrange would be largely indistinguishable from what a modern gun would send. The difference, of course, is that a modern gun would be *far* simpler and much lighter, thus more practical. Compare to the difference between a musket from 1850 and an M-14 from 1950: there is no comparing what they did.
Which points out the genius of Moses Browning, and why we need a Federal holiday – nay, an entire *month* – to properly celebrate him and his 1911.
Working on a diagram (dated 1968), but it has some stores I can’t quite make out. This blunt “bomb” is about 83 inches long, with a main body diameter of about 25 inches. Maybe it’s a nuke, maybe its a cluster bomb, maybe it’s a chemical warfare bomb… dunno. Does it look familiar to anyone?
Seems they’ve stopped doing business with a small firearm-parts dealer… and might have done so with Brownell’s as well.
I’ve fully expected the usual shipping firms will sooner or later decide to stop shipping ammunition.
Hmmm…
So here we have a smooth-brained genius somewhere in India deciding that the obvious thing to do is to physically assault a cop who already has his revolver drawn. One shot, followed by a lot of caterwauling. Note to Hollywood: getting shot seems wholly un-fun, and it instantly changes the mood and tone. It is unlikely to be the sort of thing one just shrugs off.
And for those other bright sparks who constantly question “why don’t the police just aim for the legs” every time some moron serves as a bullet sponge… *this* guy caught a bullet in the leg. One bullet. Take a look at how quickly he’s spewing precious bodily fluids. I don’t know any more about this story by this one video (i.e. squadoo), but if he didn’t receive *prompt* medical attention, his next appearance in the paper was likely an obituary.
. @PMOIndia .@rashtrapatibhvn .@NIA_India
If like this deal by punjab police so every one shot by police.
How slap first pic.twitter.com/AibF8N2Yik— vivek(obama is hero) (@vivek58334551) June 28, 2022
California released the names, birthdays, home addresses, gender and race of everyone with a concealed carry permit. Yeah. Here come the lawsuits.
Simple solution: as a “compromise” with those who want red flag laws… enact Constitutional Carry nation-wide.
Woo. Now… let’s see ’em actually follow through:
The first 26 are supposed to be delivered in December 2023, with a total of 504 by 2035. Five hundred doesn’t seem like a whole lot. I hope they test the bejeebers out of it with modern anti-tank missiles… recent events have shown that that sort of thing is kinda important.
A fully autonomous version would seem wise.