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Tech NewsWhy You Should Follow Your Roommate on Social Media (Hint: Murder)
If you’re not following your roommate on Twitter, stop everything you’re doing and start following them right now. It could save your life. In Gilbert, Arizona, a man is now facing murder charges after allegedly shooting and killing his roommate. The act of violence comes just two days after the shooter published an aggressive tweet … Continued
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Why the Hell Was There a Gun Seller at a Wizard World?
Yeah, you heard right. There was a freaking gun retailer at a comic convention. But, it didn’t last long. DS Arms, a gun manufacturer with a Chicago-area factory showroom, had its gun replica booth shut down at Wizard World Chicago on Thursday, less than two hours after setting up. According to the Chicago Tribune, people … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow Bulletproof Is a $900 Padlock?
Guns are used to blow the locks off doors in movies and TV so often we don’t stop to think if what we’re seeing is possible. (For the record, the answer is: sometimes.) But what does it take for a lock to be totally bulletproof? DemolitionRanch set out to try to destroy a $900 lock … Continued
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Bad News: TSA Found a 3D-Printed Gun In a Carry On
One of the best accounts to follow on Instagram belongs to the Transport Security Administration. It’s a never-ending list filled with photographic evidence that many people don’t understand basic rules of airline travel. However, over the weekend the TSA documented an atypical and horrifying discovery: a 3D-printed handgun with live rounds. Because they’re made of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow to Make a Liquid Nitrogen Gun
The Backyard Scientist outfitted a liquid nitrogen canister with a release valve that basically turns liquid nitrogen into a freezing squirt gun death weapon (the pressure makes the liquid nitrogen shoot out pretty strong). He pitted it up against a flame thrower to see how long it would take for the liquid nitrogen shooter to … Continued
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Tech NewsPlaying Operation Is Even More Stressful When It’s Hooked Up to a Paintball Gun
The board game Operation is a great example of how negative feedback can also negatively affect your performance. But instead of playing in constant fear of that loud buzzing sound, when you touch the sides while playing this sadistic version of Operation, you get blasted with a paintball gun. Sounds like a lot of fun. … Continued
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Armed Robbers Use Pokémon Go To Find 9 Victims
The new augmented reality game Pokemon Go has gotten people off the couch and into the real world. But police in O’Fallon, Missouri say that four men have used the game to find players at a specific location, and robbed them using a handgun. About eight or nine people have been robbed by four men … Continued
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Tech NewsWho Made the Rifle Emoji Disappear?
Unicode 9.0, which will be out June 21, is one of the most highly anticipated releases in emoji history. Finally you will avail yourself of the need to type out the letters for avocado, bacon, selfie, face palm, and pregnant. But last month, one controversial emoji was removed from the lineup: Rifle. Surely the debut … Continued
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Photoshopped Movie Stills Replace Guns With Selfie Sticks
Selfie sticks are inherently silly, but they somehow become even sillier when they get Photoshopped to replace guns in movie scenes. So instead of Clint Eastwood balancing his revolver in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, he’s now angling a selfie stick to take a picture of himself smoking a cigar. Instead of menacing … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIs Captain America’s Shield Really Bulletproof?
Cap’s shield has deflected all kinds of shit over the last few years, but outside the Marvel universe, vibranium is in short supply. So what can Captain America’s shield do when it’s made of titanium? Without breaking the laws of physics, it’s hard to imagine a more accurate test: titanium is a good stand-in for … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSeeing a Bullet Shoot Out from a Homemade Quad Barrel Shotgun Is Unreal
Wow. Let’s never ever be on this end of a gun barrel in real life but seeing the slug shoot out from this homemade quad barrel shotgun is really, really impressive. The homemade weapon is pure insanity—like something only fit for a comic book villain—because it’s four shotgun barrels in one but seeing it fire … Continued
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A Smartphone Gun Is the Last Thing Anyone Needs
Given the number of people shot by police every year because they were reaching for a “suspicious object”, you might think that disguising firearms as everyday objects is a bad idea. But US company Ideal Conceal disagrees—a double-barrelled .380 iPhone is exactly what we need to ensure our safety and freedom. The concept is simple: … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow to Make a Hot Glue Gun with a Soda Can and a Lighter
Making crafts? Nice. Got a glue gun? Awesome. Only one? Crap. When you have a lot of glue sticks but only one gun to load ‘em in, just grab some soda cans, some tape, and a lighter to make your own homemade glue gun. MrGear shows how in the video below. From the looks of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch a Gun Safe Get Cracked Open with Just a Paper Clip
Hmm. That’s not supposed to happen like that. And yet this gun safe—a GunVault GVB1000 approved by the California Department of Justice that uses a biometric fingerprint sensor to unlock itself—can be easily opened with just a paperclip. It’s a method that simply involves tricking the bypass lock to open the latch. That is way … Continued
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Smart Guns Are Here, But No One Wants To Buy Them
Smart guns got a publicity boost in January, when President Obama advocated their potential as part of his emotional speech in the wake of the San Bernardino mass shooting, and the San Francisco Smart Gun Symposium aimed to capitalize on that. The symposium, held on Tuesday, assembled some big names: San Francisco Police Chief Greg … Continued
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Bullets That Slowly Self-Destruct Make a Surprising Amount of Sense
A self-destructing bullet isn’t the most intuitive thing: normally, you use projectiles to destroy targets, not the other way around. But people make mistakes, bullets can travel for miles, and civilian casualties (or friendly fire!) are sad realities. In an effort to counter this, the Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) has patented … Continued
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Nerf’s New Alien Menace Blasters Look Straight Out of a Halo Game
Mattel’s BOOMco line already has the rights to turn Halo’s iconic weapons into toy blasters. But there’s nothing stopping Hasbro and Nerf from making blasters that only happen to look like they’re from the Halo universe, which probably explains its new Alien Menace line. The more expensive of the two models, the $40 Alien Menace … Continued
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Nerf’s Newest Rival Blaster Fires Two 70 MPH Rounds With Every Pump
Originally unveiled at last year’s Toy Fair, Nerf is expanding its Rival line this year first with the fully-automatic KHAOS MXVI-4000 we brought you back in January, and now the pump action ATLAS XVI-1200 that fires two rounds at your target with every squeeze of the trigger. Where as the $70 KHAOS MXVI-4000 is Nerf’s … Continued
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3D-Printed Semi-Automatic Gun Is Simply Terrifying
When I decide to exercise my brain I play Sudoku. When Youtube user Derwood exercises his brain he creates a semi-automatic gun that’s 95 percent 3D printed, completely untraceable, and currently very legal. “No one had ever tried to get a semi-automatic 3D printed gun working before…I’m just one of those types, I like to … Continued
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Tech NewsBuild This Auto-Tracking Nerf Sentry Gun That Does all the Aiming for You
You’re supposed to spend at least part of your day at work doing actual work, but those rare times of productivity leave you vulnerable to surprise attacks from Nerf blaster-toting co-workers. Not if you build this robotic camera-equipped sentry turret to watch your back. This isn’t a cheap hack, mind you. You’ll need to start … Continued