Guns
Visions of future weapons
We’ve passed Back to the Future Day, the point in time at which Marty McFly is supposed to have journeyed from 1985. Science fiction loves the themes of time travel and predicting the future with varying degrees of perceptiveness, but it’s fun to speculate about what could be possible.
...Anti-gov’t activist convicted of illegal machine gun possession
Sentencing for William Krisstofer Wolf is scheduled for March 3, 2016.
...Would a less lethal salt handgun work?
I wrote about a salt gun around the first of the year. I thought the quasi-child’s toy that should only be used by adults to shoot bugs was a pretty cool invention. Well, recently someone decided to build a salt gun that is supposed to be an actual person stopper. And there’s already been a lot of controversy surrounding it.
...Voters less likely to support ‘stricter gun control laws’
Houston gun show at the George R. Brown Convention Center. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
...Man files lawsuit, claims harassment, beating by NYPD for giving cop killer directions
Postal Worker Karim Baker has been the target of harassment and a brutal beatdown delivered by NYPD cops, he said. (Photo: New York Daily News)
...6 ex-Heckler & Koch employees charged for exporting guns to Mexico
A community police officer holds up a Heckler-Koch HK G36C assault rifle was seized from a house during an operation on Feb. 1, 2015. (Photo: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters)
...Writer figures out Han v Greedo controversy from new Star Wars poster
How do we know Han shot first? Because his trigger discipline is for shit. Prob didn’t even mean to shoot Greedo. pic.twitter.com/fSFEwUfdFr
...TrackingPoint giving away 10 rifles to support U.S. fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda
The TrackingPoint M800 rifle chambered in 7.62 NATO. The M600 looks almost identical. (Photo: TrackingPoint)
...Retired TSA bomb dogs need homes (5 pics)
The Transportation Security Administration is retiring some of their bomb-sniffing dogs and the agency is hoping there are good people out there to take them in.
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