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2008-07-24 Science

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Posted by tipper 2008-07-24 12:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Why wound or bruise?????? If you point.....KILL....That way you don't get sued

Posted by ARMYGUY 2008-07-24 13:06|| 2008-07-24 13:06|| Front Page Top

#2 "That way you don't get sued"

Spoken like a man who has never experienced a "wrongful death" lawsuit.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-07-24 13:11|| 2008-07-24 13:11|| Front Page Top

#3 sounds like an olde fashion Phaser..

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-07-24 13:28|| Red Dawg]">[Red Dawg] 2008-07-24 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Spoken like a man who has never experienced a "wrongful death" lawsuit.

Also spoken like someone who slept through the 'use of deadly force' lecture.

Posted by Pappy 2008-07-24 13:51|| 2008-07-24 13:51|| Front Page Top

#5 A better option is to mount another weapon beneath a normal assault rifle barrel. That way you don't screw with an existing, successful weapon.

I can imagine a shotgun would be useful, loaded with rocksalt or even bean-bags would slow people down.

You could even load up a stun gun or super-soaker filled with pepper spray. Any of the above would be better than screwing with the primary weapon.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-07-24 14:00|| 2008-07-24 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 I prefer nukes. That way, you don't have witnesses. Kinda rough on the "innocents", but I'm beginning to think the term is over-used.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-07-24 14:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-24 14:10|| Front Page Top

#7 You could carry a hell of a lot more rounds with a system like this. Might be good for urban warfare on the low setting. Different bullet weights would make it even more flexible. And I don't know, wounding the enemy seems like it just makes more problems than it prevents. They capture some of those Taliban guys several times, I don't know who keeps letting them out, but they go right back to work when they do.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-24 14:13|| 2008-07-24 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Years ago in Brazil, bus companies made the interesting discovery that they paid much less for wrongful death than for injury. This was soon followed with bus drivers chasing people they had bumped, to finish the job.

But seriously, folks. I figured that an easier way to get a variable bullet would be to have a casing with punch holes in it. You would have a selector switch on the gun that would determine how many holes were punched in the casing before firing; zero, one or two.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-24 14:17|| 2008-07-24 14:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm beginning to think the term is over-used.

So's your rhetoric, but you're still allowed to post.

Posted by Pappy 2008-07-24 14:30|| 2008-07-24 14:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Future Weapons had a variable speed beanbag shotgun. It was calibrated for fireing at a human being, you used a slider set the hight of the person and the gun calibrated how much force to use to stun it.

It worked by venting off the burning gasses from the shotgun "shell" in variable amounts.

Posted by DLR 2008-07-24 15:26|| http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html]">[http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html] 2008-07-24 15:26|| Front Page Top

#11 I wonder if it'll be ready for the night of November 4th.

Posted by Bob 2008-07-24 15:39|| 2008-07-24 15:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Kinda defeats the purpose of handloading.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-07-24 17:11|| 2008-07-24 17:11|| Front Page Top

#13 I can hear it now. A cop says "STOP!" The perp doesn't stop and keeps coming. "Damn, I meant to set it on bruise."

Such bullets will only be good for lawyers.

I was part of some research some years ago that evaluated a tungsten-tin bullet that was formed under pressure. it did not work as well as conventional bullets because it tended to powder on impact. The intent was to develop an "environmentally friendly" but people unfriendly bullet. It didn't work so well. I always had to kind of chuckle about these conflicting concepts. Still hard to beat lead. Shoot for the center of mass with an "adequate conventional" bullet to kill if you are going to shoot. What "adequate conventional" means is open to interpretation. I like 40 or 45 cal. Hydra-Shok or Speer Lawman. These rounds will bruise, wound, and kill all at the same time. You don't have to take the time to sort out which you want to do.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-07-24 17:56|| 2008-07-24 17:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Wrongful death lawsuits, in the case of a perp, are very likely to be dismissed or beaten by a decent attorney. Much more so than the ones where the jurors see some bastard sitting there in a wheelchair or using a walker. It's the same psychology at work that had all the fools concerned about OJ rather than the two people he murdered.

Posted by Jomock Platypus9662 2008-07-24 18:48|| 2008-07-24 18:48|| Front Page Top

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