Weapon articles

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  Replica of 'Dead Space' Plasma Cutter wreaks havoc with laser beams

  By Amar Toor on May 5, 2013 06:16 am + 38 comments

  Laser aficionado Patrick Priebe has created a scarily realistic working replica of the Plasma Cutter Continue reading…

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  Controversial knives-on-planes policy delayed by TSA

  By Sam Byford on April 22, 2013 08:51 pm + 81 comments

  Thursday was meant to be the day that the TSA started allowing passengers to bring small knives on Continue reading…

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  Navy destroys drone with laser weapon ahead of 2014 deployment

  By Carl Franzen on April 8, 2013 02:23 pm + 92 comments

  The US Navy has been pursuing solid-state laser weapons capable of setting other vessels on fire for Continue reading…

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  Augmented hunting with a $17,500 Linux-powered rifle

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on April 2, 2013 10:52 am + 28 comments

  A bullet loses six feet of height while flying across 1,000 yards, and a hunter firing such a shot Continue reading…

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  Bomb-carrying Navy robots take orders from odors

  By Amar Toor on January 29, 2013 05:08 am + 16 comments

  The US Navy is looking to develop a swarm of odor-sniffing robots to help assemble and load some of Continue reading…

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  New York paper pulls map of registered handgun owners in wake of new weapons law

  By Bryan Bishop on January 18, 2013 06:20 pm + 109 comments

  Last month New York paper The Journal News garnered some serious attention by publishing a Google Continue reading…

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  MakerBot purges user-generated weapon blueprints from 3D printing community site

  By Kimber Streams on December 19, 2012 05:54 pm + 48 comments

  3D printing company MakerBot has deleted a number of blueprints for gun parts from Thingiverse, a Continue reading…

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  North Korea successfully launches satellite into orbit

  By Sam Byford on December 11, 2012 08:31 pm + 135 comments

  The secretive state of North Korea has made its second attempt to fire a rocket into space this Continue reading…

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  Syrian rebels build homemade tank out of car chassis, game controller

  By Jeff Blagdon on December 9, 2012 11:36 pm + 40 comments

  Forget 3D printed guns, Syrian opposition fighters are taking backyard weapons manufacture to the Continue reading…

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  James Bond-like weapons retrieved from failed North Korean assassin

  By Justin Rubio on November 26, 2012 01:30 pm + 80 comments

  Three deadly and otherwise undetectable weapons were found on the body of a would-be North Korean Continue reading…