Loud cars merit an armed police response. Who knew?

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Dec 172018
 

While there have been times when I’d’ve loved to have had the police show up because some idjit had an excessively and needlessly loud vehicle – such as the Honda in this video – it would be best if the police actually knew *why* they were showing up toting fully automatic assault weapons with barrel shrouds, 30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second, 30 magazine clip within half a second and shoulder things that go up.

 

Lest ya thing I’m drunk posting… here’s what I’m yammering about.

 Posted by at 1:36 pm

“Nobody wants to take your guns”

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Dec 152018
 

Remember that line from *every* time gun control has been raised? Heh.

NJ State Police Refuse to Rule Out House-to-House Enforcement of High Capacity Magazine Ban

New Jersey has made standard capacity magazines illegal to own, and may be considering sending cops to the homes of gun owners to take their Constitutionally protected stuff.

 Posted by at 1:19 am

Anti-sub Loach

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Dec 142018
 

A Hughes Helicopter magazine ad from 1967 showing the OH-6A in Navy service as a sub-hunter. I do not believe that this was a role that the small chopper was ever used for.However, the Hughes OH-6 proved to be a phenomenally successful design; more than 50 years after this ad, it is still being manufactured in updated form as the MD Helicopters MD500E.

 Posted by at 1:43 pm

Didn’t I see this on Babylon 5?

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Dec 122018
 

I’m split right down the middle between “hey, that seems kinda cool” and “well that seems to be an item of limited practical value.”

Well, perhaps not *right*down the middle. Given that it suffers more damage than a tomater does, it would not seem to be a device capable of being used in practical combat. *Perhaps* if you were mugged you might be able to whip this out and spook the bejeebers out of your assailant, but a shot of bear spray or buckshot would do that somewhat more effectively.

 Posted by at 8:57 pm

Neutral Particle Beam weapon mockup

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Nov 212018
 

A while back a 1987 press image was posted on ebay showing a McDonnell-Douglas full scale mockup of a Neutral Particle Beam weapon system. This would have been an experimental system, not an operational weapon; details on full-scale NPB weapons are *very* hard to come by, but the smallest NPB weapon system that I’ve seen anything remotely resembling hard data on would have required a non-trivial number of Shuttle-derived heavy lift launch vehicles to put into orbit a piece at a time. Some references – extremely vague ones – have even made mention of dimensions for the full-scale weapons being measured in kilometers.

The purpose of this system would likely have been to simply show that a neutral particle beam could be reliably generated and directed at an orbiting target some decent distance away. While it would likely be very unhealthy to be int he way of such a beam, it’s weapons potential would doubtless have been low… thus the need for vastly scaled-up operational versions.

 Posted by at 3:23 am

20-gauge Defiance

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Nov 172018
 

This looks like an interesting piece:

An all-metal (steel and cast aluminum) California Arms Co. “Defiance” 20 gauge side-by-side shotgun pistol from the 1920’s. Only 300 or so were made, and of course the NFA put an end to low cost short barreled shotguns in the 1930’s. But the design looks not only practical but simple, the sort of thing that could probably be readily modeled in CAD for either 3D metal printing or (more reasonably) CNC milling. Seems like the sort of thing that could have a set of easily swappable barrels of different length, down to just a few inches.

 

 

 

 Posted by at 11:02 am

“Nobody wants to take your guns”

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Nov 162018
 

A common refrain from gun grabbers is that they *aren’t* gun grabbers, and that anyone who suggests that they are is a paranoid nut. But every now and then they come right out and tell you what they *really* want:

Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters: Ex-prosecutor in Congress

This op-ed was written by Eric Swalwell, a Democrat Representative from San Francisco. His suggestion is to buy all “assault weapons” for $1000 and then kill anyone who resists. Think that’s an exaggeration? Behold:

 

One might be tempted to think it is a bit extraordinary that a member of the US federal Government publicly suggested democide as a way to enforce his policies.

 

 Posted by at 6:56 pm

Here’s MIRV

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Nov 132018
 

If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like to be on the receiving end of an ICBM-launched weapon… kinda like this:

Note that you could, from a sufficient distance, visually track the incoming warheads. They don’t look like phaser beams coming in, but they do glow fiercely from aerothermal heating. At least a few of the warheads apparently got *real* close to the intended target. Given that live warheads would have had yields measuring several hundred kilotons, that’s pretty much good enough for most purposes.

 

 

 Posted by at 5:51 pm
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