Firm Unveils Gun That Fires Around Corners...What will NJ do?

[Township75]

SHOHAM FIRING RANGE, Israel — Veterans of Israeli anti-terror units on Monday demonstrated a new gun that can fire at a target from around the corner, making it particularly effective in urban combat.

Israel plans to start using the weapon next week, U.S. forces have already begun training with it and U.S. SWAT (search) and police teams have expressed interest in purchasing it, Amos Golan, the device's developer, said at a demonstration Monday at a firing range near Tel Aviv.

"The Americans are very interested in this," Golan said. "I believe from what I have seen and heard that it can be a big success in Iraq because the Americans are dealing with an urban area there."

Wow, NJ better update their banned weapons list, or they could be in big trouble...or maybe not, their laws will save them

Full story here
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105808,00.html

[slackmaster]

1. Germans had curved barrels for rifles during WWII

For the Mauser bolt-action rifles. The device attached to the muzzle of a standard K98. They're quite valuable to collectors.

[DoNotRefill]

7. So did the US...

for the M3A1 "greasegun". The Greasegun adapter was nifty, you just unscrewed the old regular barrel, and screwed the new curved one on.

[liberalhistorian]

2. Well, I sure do feel even safer now!

And it's really nice to know that great minds are focusing on solving the problem of how to make even more lethal and deadly weapons, instead of stupid, unimportant, trivial stuff like solving hunger, homelessness, poverty, the health care meltdown, etc., etc. Lucky for me the thug who robbed me didn't have that kind of gun!

[demsrule4life]

3. Ban corners? :)

[slackmaster]

4. At least require one of those wide-angle mirrors at every one

They'd cut down on harried holiday shoppers slamming into each other as they scurry about the malls.

[Poll_Blind]

5. Well it isn't really a gun that fires around corners...it's...

...a mechanical arm whose mechanical fist holds a pistol you place in it. The mechanical arm reaches around the corner and when you pull the "trigger" it depresses the trigger in the same manner that a squeeze bulb allows you to depress a camera button when you want to be in a scene you yourself are photographing. None of this is high tech nor particularly innovative. Even at 3-5K a pop it's still a waste of taxpayer money to buy this sort of technological canard when we could have developed something equally unastounding for a third the price here at home. How this got a patent is a tribute to the American patent system's ineptness.

BTW, it's sort of humorous that the company states that they will not sell to anyone but law enforcement- any citizen in any state could produce a similar device, legally, and they would not be required to be a) a gunsmith or b) licensed in any way, whatsoever.

As a gun-owning Democrat, yes, I am interested in firearms technology. I am appalled by all forms of gun violence an believe that if Americans were, on average, more mature psychologically, they would not resort to abusing firearms to "resolve" issues instead of dealing with them like mature adults. I also am equally appalled by a culture which, generally, promotes gun violence the ideal that a man's "manliness" can be augmented by a firearm. I know of the handfull of you who may read this some may have been touched very personally by gun violence and I wanted to be sensitive to those persons- the pain they endure is not something I wish to exascerbate.

-PB

[alwynsw]

6. It has definite advantages for law enforcement and

the military in urban situations.

It looks as though it would be particularly handy in Newark. Almost a necessity.

[TexasMexican]

8. Ban wrists and hands...

because I know I can reach around a corner and shoot.

[MrSandman]

9. More reliably, too.

[solinvictus]

10. Germany

They had a barrel attachment that was fitted to the 9/mm MP-40 and the 7.92/mm Kurz MP/Stg-44. It worked as a graduated curve that allowed the bullet to round corners without a substantial loss of bullet velocity. This was developed as a response to close quarters combat in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

[Loonman]

11. So now in addition to back shooting civilians

They can do it around corners.

[liberalhistorian]

12. I know, will wonders never cease?

I wonder what brilliant new way of killing human beings they'll come up with next?