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Do you love westerns? If you have answered in the affirmative, then I am quite sure that you would have enjoyed Disney’s The Lone Ranger that is showing on the silver screens at the moment. Heck, you might even want to get a gun of your own after that, although depending on the country that you live in, doing so might not be that easy as you would like to think. Still, there are other ways to “protect” yourself, or being a nuisance to others, and the £29.99 Bandit Guns is definitely one of them.

The Bandit Guns are made out of precision laser-cut design, where you can choose from three different modes of shooting. There is also the unspoken satisfaction deep down within when you construct your own ‘piece’, sort of like how a Jedi padawan works on his or her own lightsaber with crystal shards, where no two lightsabers are the same. With the Bandit Guns, you are able to hit your friends and colleagues with up to 10 bands in a single shot, now how about that? Just be mature enough not to point it at someone’s face and you should be good to go. What’s that? Nerf vs Bandit guns? Bring ‘em on, I say!
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At the University of Michigan, an international team of physicists has begun experimenting with its tabletop-sized super laser, modding it into an antimatter “gun.” It’s not quite a black hole-firing pistol, but we’re slightly terrified nonetheless. Up until now, machines capable of creating positrons — coupled with electrons, they comprise the energy similar to what’s emitted by black holes and pulsars — have needed to be as large as they are expensive. Creating these antimatter beams on a small scale will hopefully give astrophysicists greater insight into the “enigmatic features” of gamma ray bursts that are “virtually impossible to address by relying on direct observations,” according to a paper published at arXiv. While the blasts only last fractions of a second each, the researchers report each firing produces a particle-density output level comparable to the accelerator at CERN. Just like that, the Longhorns/Wolverines super-laser arms-race begins again.

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Via: Gizmodo, PhysOrg

Source: arXiv

In the old days, when you wanted to double-tap a bad guy with an AR-15, you had to rely on plain-jane scopes or sights… booooring. Good thing we live in a more tactically technological time, the age of the Inteliscope — a mount and app combo that lets you slap an iPhone or iPod touch atop an assault rifle to give the killing fields a little Cupertino flair. Until now, we’d only seen a screenshot of the app, but the company has just released a video of it in action. So, head on down to see for yourself what it’s like swapping reticles, getting range info and recording video of target practice from a sniper’s POV.

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It’s surely not the first contraption to bring an iDevice to a weapon, but the Inteliscope does appear to be one of the first to take itself seriously. It’s designed to secure an iPhone 4 / 4S / 5 or iPod touch to any firearm with a Picatinny (Mil-STD-1913) or Weaver tactical rail, enabling shooters to peek around corners with no head exposure. Naturally, the mount itself wouldn’t be all that attractive without an accompanying app. The software portion of the equation offers up custom crosshairs, a 5x digital zoom, video recording capabilities, ballistics / firearm data, a built-in compass and a shot timer. There’s also a flashlight and strobe feature, information about local prevailing winds and a constant check on your location. Folks interested in pre-ordering can do so at the source link for $69.99, with initial shipments expected to head out in June.

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Source: Inteliscope

That didn’t take long — just days after its first test fire, the Liberator, a 3D-printed pistol designed by Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson, has caught the attention of the federal government. It’s hardly a surprise: the arm’s blueprints were downloaded more than 100,000 times since going live on DefCAD this week. It’s not the amount of downloads that’s causing trouble, though, it’s who is downloading them. In a letter from the US State Department, Wilson was told that it’s a violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to “export any defense article or technical data for which a license or written approval is required without first obtaining the required authorization from the DDTC (Directorate of Defense Trade Controls).”

The letter goes on to explain that these downloads legally count as exports under the law, telling Wilson to remove the plans from public access immediately. “That might be an impossible standard,” Wilson told Forbes. “But we’ll do our part to remove it from our servers.” As it turns out, most of the gun’s downloads were served via Mega, making full removal near impossible. Still, Wilson seems optimistic about the situation, explaining to Forbes that conversation will help mold the discussion on 3D printed weaponry. “Is this a workable regulatory regime? Can there be defense trade control in the era of the internet and 3D printing?” We’re looking forward to discovering the answer ourselves.

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Via: Vice

Source: Forbes