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Lance

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    Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, but soccer moms sometimes have boys. So, if they decide to have a gun, I hope they make sure the kids can't get to it and I hope they don't feel the need for an assault rifle. I can only hope. Maybe you can convince them to carry your jawbone instead?

     

     

    Give her a jawbone if you must, but don't give her an assault rifle.

     

    Assault rifles were banned in the US in 1986. The current political debate is completely unrelated. But unfortunately this seems to the the heart of the issue. Misinformation.

  2. i just built a new capacitor bank, out of 18 photoflash capacitors. I lost some power from the gun. Could anyone tell me why that happened, and how i could fix that problem? Would increasing the coil wire size help?

     

    The discharge time was too high. Thicker wire, more voltage, or less capacitance.

  3. believe anyone who dies deserve some respect if they hadnt really killed anyone or done something of the sort ,humans do have false afterall.

     

    I'm so sick of hearing phrases like this. Dying does not suddenly make everybody a good person.

  4. I'd do the video taping :eyebrow:

     

     

    And you wouldn't be doing Army training, but simply preventing yourself from dropping to the floor in writhing agony.

     

     

    (I'll bring the Dave's Insanity Sauce and we'll do business ;)

    And then we'll get a few beers, on me. In thanks for your service to the nation, and to science :cool:)

     

    Okay at first your post mildly irritated me, but I DO like beer. Let me think about it. :P

  5. No offense, but I'd have to verify the spray's inability to take you down. Care to have me video it and show the results here? ;)

     

    First of all it's kind of hard to video tape myself going through a combat course after being peppersprayed. Second yes I do have videos of other people but it would be a breach in operation security for me to post videos of Army training publicly. I will post a photo of me immediately after having passed the combat course. Notice I'm not rolling around on the ground in pain. DoD grade OC spray is also around 4x as concentrated as what civilian police are allowed to carry.

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  6. That would be the quantum freeze field generators coming into effect arround the window frames (ALL hunvee's have them nowadays ;)) - it creats a quantum time freeze arround the impact site that slows the bullet impact right down. Thus it freezes the ripples from the impact into the glass rather than allowing the shatter. Genious really.

     

    Lol. I'm sure. The glass is also around 4" thick. There's a running joke that when an up-armored Humvee is hit by an IED and completely destroyed the windows are the only thing left intact.

  7. Curious, how would you know this? You are correct that one miss and you're screwed, but I'm sure that's easily fixable by technology.

     

    I have had a substantial amount of training in less lethal weapons. I have been on both sides of the weapon. I have also been exposed a Level 1 DoD OC contamination then passed a full combat course(with no firearm), so what makes you think OC spray would take down an armed attacker either?

  8. On people? No. And obviously the last (Dave's Insanity Sauce laced) is fictional. The only experience I've had is with air guns/rifles, paintball (both of which I can aim fairly dead-on by quick draw) and a bit of archery.

     

    But most of what I listed in your quote have been used by police successfuly. I don't see why not for citizens.

     

     

    No it's not fictional. Well yes, the name is. It's actually called OC spray. I have also had training with a paintball gun-like weapon that contained OC oil. A devastating weapon but I would think twice about using it on somebody holding even a pocket knife.

     

    The irony is your last statement is that police still carry pistols. The escalation of force allows a police officer to use lethal force on somebody carrying a baseball bat if they feel life is threatened.

     

    Have you ever been tazed? The neat immobilizing affect you see on TV wares off in about 0.05 seconds flat. Range is limited to about 15' with no real accuracy, and if you miss the first shot you're screwed. Movies are a poor base for scientific discussion. Tazors are almost always reserved for unarmed opponents.

  9. Indeed. I quite agree being a gun owner myself.

     

    One thing with which I struggle, however, is that I don't feel anyone should have assault weapons like AKs and ARs. They only have one purpose, and that is the mowing down of other humans.

     

    Define an assault weapon. This is a common belief among civilians but the problem is none of them can really define what exactly an "assault weapon" is.

     

    I don't see why you can't stop a person with a taser gun or modern/advanced forms of subdual.

     

    Plus there's also rubber bullets (or plastic ones)' date=' eventually they could design meaner versions of wax bullets. There are flexible baton rounds (see pics), they can make super soaker versions for adults heavily laced with Dave's Insanity Sauce or an equally good (pun) alternative.[/quote']

     

    Do you have any experience with these weapons?

  10. I once saw a Neon light with a connection for in the car. Neon lights work at high voltage (10 kV perhaps?), and cars supply 12 V. Regardless of the fact that I'm 2 yrs late with this response, I think it's worth mentioning it exists...

     

    Depends on the neon bulb. Are you talking about actual neon or a neon-like discharge lamp. Neon indicator lamps can be lit by mains voltage (120). If your talking about the colored non-neon discharge tubes they are probably powered by an 12v inverter.

  11. The question is will I burn more calories by running three miles at my top speed or slowing it down to a light jog assuming that I have to run the three miles.

     

    The reason being is I have been told that to gain weight with my body type I should be doing very little cardio at all. Especially considering I won't have any problem passing the run on the PT test anyway. But some people have neglected to do individual PT so we are being forced to run as a squad twice a week rather than go to the gym on our own.

  12. I have been shocked MANY times and when I really think about it its hard to really remember what it feels like. Being tazed was one of the most painful but the only part of the sensation that's really memorable other than the extreme pain was the clicking noise inside my head.

     

    And whats the point of drinking non-alcoholic beer. The chow hall here serves it but I really dont see the point.

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