There’s a lot of violence in movies and TV shows. Guns, blood and murder are welcomed into the family living room by the bleary eyes of desensitized souls. But it’s entertaining! But it’s also pretty ridiculous how un-shocking it is to see. We can pass violent ads without giving it a second look. This artist wants us to hilariously think different.
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Catching a bullet as it flies through the air is a tired old illusion—but can it actually be done in real life? Surprisingly, yes—at least, theoretically.
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TSA screened 638,705,790 passengers in 2013, and as we learned last year,
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Generally speaking, it’s what’s inside a bottle that counts. It could come out of a yak udder just as long as it still tastes like a fine, single-malt Scotch. Still, there’s nothing wrong with a little creative packaging. And booze bottles come in some of the most creative, decadent, and just plain bizarre designs you can imagine.
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It’s a new gun industry invention: a "NY legal" 50-round five-magazine part for the AR-15 semi-auomatic air cooled rifle. I can’t understand how can this be legal in NY or anywhere else*. Just look at the description from The Truth About Guns—you can’t miss it:
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So we have smartphones, smartwatches, smart TVs, smart everything, but how about a smart gun? It would definitely pair nicely with a smart bullet, wouldn’t it? Well as it turns out there are reports which claims that the US military is currently looking to equip its soldiers with smart rifles. These rifles are built by a startup company called TrackingPoint, with each gun estimated to have cost the military around $10,000 to $27,000 each. Guns alone are pretty expensive but what makes these bad boys cost even more? Well for starters they are “smart” as they come equipped with a Linux-based computer which helps the scope and sensors calculate and adjust for a variety of factors, such as weather and ground inclinations.
With all those factors calculated and accounted for, all the shooter has to do is aim at their target and position the firearm according to how the computer tells them to, and fire. At this point in time it seems that the firearms are being used as a trial to determine how ordinary shooters fare against trained marksmen who will not have the advantage of computers to help them aim and shoot. According to TrackingPoint, if it goes well, the military might consider arming their troops with it and might even share the spotlight with DARPA’s laser-equipped sniper scopes in the future. While we’re all for arming our troops with superior firepower, we’d hate to think what would happen if this weapon fell into the wrong hands.
US Military Reportedly Interested In Smart Rifles original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Russia is developing weaponized ground drones, including some big amphibious models like the one you can see here. Add the thousands of combat air drones from many nations already flying through the world and it’s not crazy to think in a full robotic war happening before 2020 somewhere in the world.
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Reddit’s great for many things: funny pictures, interesting factoids, revealing crowd-sourced interviews. Also, assault rifles. Mother Jones just published an unnerving investigation into the little known gun market tucked into the GunsForSale subreddit, and the numbers are disturbing.
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There was one point in time where the arrow was considered to be the greatest advancement in human weaponry, but fast forward a couple of centuries, we are now able to launch missiles from any part of the world at a single touch of a button, and now in the personal defense department, a company has invented a new bullet that can be fired from handguns that will exit the chamber as a single round, but also has the ability to split itself into four connected parts, meaning that even if you’re a terrible aim, chances of you hitting your target has dramatically increased.
Called the Mi-Bullet, it has been likened to a multi-pellet buckshot found in shotguns, but instead of a seemingly random spray of pellets, the Mi-Bullet will expand itself to a pre-determined diameter of 14-inches when fired from handguns. There will also be a shotgun version which will split into into a diameter of 24-inches, more or less guaranteeing that you will hit your target, although whether it will be a lethal shot will depend. While we don’t necessary advocate gun violence, we have to admit that it is a pretty clever design, with its manufacturer planning on shipping a non-lethal version, a semi-lethal version, and a lethal version.
The Mi-Bullet Is For Those With Terrible Aim, Will Split Itself Into Four Connected Parts original content from Ubergizmo. 
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