Go watch the YouTube channel Active Self Protection if you would like to see how often someone needs more than a few rounds to preserve life.

The notice is the American flag flying proud in the front yard!

There are copies of Glock frames out there that you need only mill or drill out where the trigger goes. And many criminals do use ARs. Also, AR pistols are a thing. I read of felons caught with both all the time.

I clicked submit instead of edit. What I was going to add to the discussion is that we should push for legislation to at least keep tech in check, but at the same time be prepared for when it may be used against us. He is not entirely wrong to think of a way such a machine could be defeated. It will take people working and fighting on many fronts if we are to keep what we have created. Indeed these could prove to be a huge problem if used inappropriately or in the wrong hands. We are at a critical decision point in our technology and history.

1.5 oz of steel BBs. About as effective as throwing a handful of tic tacs at a determined assailant. By the time these are up armored and battle tested, even our armor piercing and explosive rounds may be inadequate. The fact you said steel and not tungsten or depleted uranium is telling.

Well, they're handing it off/shutting down shop.... so that rule doesn't apply to them anymore/after that! Masterful work! As I would expect.

Actually, the humans' brains were linked together through The Matrix forming a supercomputer of sorts so they could surpass human technology at the time to win the war and take over Earth. The machines' only disadvantage was their inability to create new ideas. The movies dumbed the story down too much IMHO. .

We have been making leaps and bounds in some technologies that until quite recently would have been thought impossible. I feel that lots of individuals are perhaps taking longer to find themselves, so to speak, because of the fact that each branch of scientific progress has forked and there is so much to discover. I am still hopeful that we will figure it out for the most part. We often 'rediscover' things that were researched in the past and we now have the technology to continue where researchers from our parents' and grandparents' time left off. That is an amazing legacy to be a part of. The future holds bright promises if we don't squander all the progress we have made. Oh, and just because we have gotten rid of most of the asbestos and abolished lead in gas does not mean we are not exposed to whole new classes of toxins and radiation. Just as before we will find out too late, after the damage is done. I am in socal and if I go fishing at the beach, the wife and kids cannot eat even a single serving of most fishes that I would catch out there, mostly due to the DDT plant superfund site which to this day releases measurable toxins in the harbor and surrounding coastal areas. And as per the CDFW guidelines, there are a few that tend to be so toxic, that they suggest that even I not eat any of those particular species from this area.

This reeks of violations of Constitutionally protected Rights! Whoever penned and whoever authorized this should be fired. And besides, folks like us are only going to give them our PH handle. Have fun searching through the d1ck pics. Stupidity abounds. Another thing that has so much collateral damage potential that it should have been deemed criminal to even suggest... even though our intelligence agencies have been doing it for years. I have no problem with them having tools to catch criminals, but this seems like it has no oversight or rules to prevent abuses from occurring, so shame on them. And I guarantee you that they are tagging all of us commenting on this story as "activists!". So if they ask me, I will tell them I am 949man on PH, and that is all I can recall right now.

Because the Emperor requires 10,000 souls a day!

I can still see a use for rail guns. In a heavily contested environment with say,, no comms or weapons command/control signals in all the noise. Missiles and guided bombs are out. GPS and other smart targeting systems may still work, but if you are on one of those ships in that sort of hostile situation, I would bet that even a naysayer of such a project would appreciate having a cannon on board that can engage fast moving targets with impunity. If it were you or your sons.... We haven't had to make those sacrifices or decisions In so long that we have forgotten....

35 trillion?!?!? You say? Might be enough to fund some of the advanced stuff most of us couldn't wrap our heads around. Can't wait to find out in 30 years what they were doing today.

Oh, they will! I just wish we could be assured it would be a slow and agonizing death. Death to the Bigots!

I chuckle as I am sipping my Kona coffee I stocked up on when I was there for vacation a few months ago. Oh Slashdot, this is why I'm still here. And the news articles, of course!

Or closer to 40, like here in Southern California