Re: Art of War: Metal Storm

From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 05:25:30 MST


Mike, do you actually think the BATFE will "allow" us peons a chance to own
one of these, anyway? Sounds like a "destructive device", for dang sure.

Chuck Kuecker

At 19:43 01/29/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>--- avatar <avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au> wrote:
> > With all the comments on the Nanotech SuperSoldiers site about
> > machine gun firing at flying objects, I thought I'd raise this old
> > reportage, still chugging along as of 2001. (For all romantics who
> > don't believe a beam weapon can be aimed superfast by computer
> > programme.) Wonder how you could get this arrangement to continuously
> > load? Electromagnetic injection? Avatar
>
>It doesn't load. That is the point of the design. It comes
>pre-manufactured with all ammo in the barrel, and so each time you want
>to 'reload' you have to buy a new barrel, and submit to a background
>check.
>
>It is a scheme for expanding background checks to ammo purchases via an
>engineering bait and switch.
>
>=====
>Mike Lorrey
>"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
> - Gen. John Stark
>"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
>"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
>For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid



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