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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYour newest nightmare-- a drone with a shotgun...
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/russia-s-shotgun-wielding-drone-is-the-flying-nightmare-1833617897They can't build a car or a working telephone, but the Russians' latest gadget is a drone with a 10-shot 12 gauge shotgun attached.
And it works.
Even better is that it looks like it could be built in a garage
ZZenith
(4,133 posts)getagrip_already
(14,934 posts)Until the great purge took place.
One kid got into some trouble when he put an actual 9mm handgun on one, and showed it hovering near a target blasting away. He was well under 18 and he designed and built it himself.
There were all kinds of "almost" lethal projects on youtube. Some dropped fruit about the same size as a grenade. Others had paintball guns.
The message was clear. Technology can kill remotely and it would be hard to stop without sophisticated jamming gear. It reduces killing to a video game, and about as dangerous for the attacker.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)poisons, explosives, and other good stuff.
Now it's on the dark web, not passed around in anarchist meetings.
mitch96
(13,940 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Takket
(21,677 posts)are there any laws here about devices that allow remote firing for guns being illegal?
if not we need to get on that........