Firearms

Texas irony.. The old fashioned way.

As we all know the current gun denizen is Codiac, but every now and then there is a story so remarkable that I have to post it.
For instance: the Texas lawmaker who voted against the castle doctrine; he shot and killed someone in the circumstances that the castle doctrine was there to protect; the rights of the [...]


Password-protected Bullets

Barry Fox over at the NewScientist Blogs writes,
The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself.
Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch [...]


Good Guy 1, Bad Guy 0

A clerk at a hotel brought an abrupt end to an armed robbery.  Check out this link for the video:  http://tinymce.moxiecode.cp/mce_temp_url
And this link for THR commentary:  http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=187561
And this link for the clerk’s point of view in his own words:  http://www.jobrelatedstuff.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=443057
Some feel that he was too close to the child while shooting.  I say the woman [...]


Proof about guns

This video is proof that guns don’t kill people, people kill people.


Gun-Toting Anime Quiz

So, I found this quiz and thought I’d share…
click here
This is mine:
You are KIRIKA - You are unsure of who you really are, and desperately seek answers. You don’t know why you kill so much; you just do. Your sweet face belies your deadly instincts. In short, you are the ultimate assassin. Aren’t you [...]