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It's easy enough to make bullets, so the purpose of this would immediately be defeated by the black market. |
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Then make the weapons radioactive, as suggested in the last sentence? Sooner or later those weapons will filter into the criminal community. Especially if crooked cops sell them, as they do now, to criminals. |
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The Rail gun in Eraser, and the gun in The Jackel (the Bruce Willis/Richard Gere version) fired depleted Uranium rounds (i think cos it's light). |
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On the contrary it is very dense (1.7 times that of lead) and hard, to increase penetration. |
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Ahh, well it still sounds good! |
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The US Military uses depleted uranium in the large tank piercing bullets fired from the A-10 Warthog. |
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People just need to develop a
more sensitive system of cordite
or gunpowder detection. Dogs can
do it - we need a machine that
can, too! |
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[Macwarrior], it's been done. The bomb sniffing machines at airports do this now. |
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If you put enought radioactive material in the weapons, it will surely cut down on the number of people willing to carry one around with them all the time. Especially those people who tend to keep them tucked into their pants, right near their privates... |
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My + vote is for making guns a bit radioactive. Not enough to hurt anyone very much, but enough to detect. Sadly though, other items may set off detectors as well (see link). |
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(off topic) Thanks [sj] for reminding me of this issue - several years ago there were big debates about how much radioactive metal should be allowed to be recycled into everyday products. I don't know what ever happened to the legislation. Since then I've acquired a geiger counter ($35 on ebay) to see how radioactive the world around me is (yes, that's my idea of fun). I think I'll set up some experiments (if ever I find time) to measure how radioactive metal items in my house are. |
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No need for radioactivity, just make a law that the barrel has to be two inches in diameter and weight at least ten pounds. |
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Thanks Bliss,
Living in Jamaica now, exciting time and place |
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baked. Kriptonite bullets. |
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Since the okc bombing radio-reactive tracers have been but in variouse oxidizers sold in the US in order to be able to track where they were sold. This could be added to gun-powder/gun-cotton (smokeless powder) so that it could be easly picked up by an x-ray machine set to dectect reactive tracers in the powder.... |
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Needed to drag this up for discussion purposes. It should be fairly ease to make shell casings radioactive. |
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Extend this slightly by making all weapons and munitions highly radioactive, ideally to the point where the act of loading a gun would achieve critical mass. |
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Yeah, we don't need any more violent people having kids. |
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Sigh. Another assumption that weapons ownership means that you're violent. I've never had occasion to draw or display in more than 30 years of responsible ownership and carrying. |
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And you want to introduce radioactive elements into my life? |
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Then why do you own the gun? It doesn't necessary make you violent, but it does mean if you ever are mugged or whatever, the chance skyrockets that someone will get sriously hurt. |
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//The bomb sniffing machines at airports do this now.// |
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I can't get the image of a mechanical nose sniffing a bags now. Tehehe. |
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//It doesn't necessary make you violent, but it does mean if you ever are mugged or whatever, the chance skyrockets that someone will get sriously hurt.// |
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Statistics show that you are far more likely to be shot by a person you know than by a stranger. |
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Unless of course you are in the military, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Palestine, etc. |
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[Germanicus], you texted [it does mean if you ever are mugged or whatever, the chance skyrockets that someone will get seriously hurt]. |
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There's a type of human that has made it clear by their choice of career that they're not concerned about who gets hurt or how badly. |
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Some people are the type of human that's willing to endure that. Criminals rely on that behaviour mode. |
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Some humans choose to take responsibility for their own safety, and the safety of those around them as well. Or, as somebody is reputed to have said, "For evil to happen, all that is required is for good men to do nothing". |
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You are correct. If I get mugged, the chances skyrocket that someone is going to get seriously hurt. It's not as though muggers are some natural resource that's being used up and we need to be careful and conserve what we have left. |
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