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You heard me. Apparently the legislature in Wisconsin has decided to nip weapons
escalation in the bud and have started banning weapons that are so far only practical in Science Fiction.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll
http://hacknmod.com/hack/build-your-own-coil-gun-ii/

it's not as unlikely, or as far away, as you think.

http://hackedgadgets.com/2007/01/27/top-5-coil-guns/



I could probably take a squirrel with that.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Damn it, now what am I going to do with my semi automatic uzi radar laser triple barrel double scoped heat seaking railgun?!
"There are no problems that cannot be solved with cannons."
-Chief Engineer Boris Kraus of Nuln
Have they outlawed hunting with http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/01 ... _puke_ray/]puke rayguns yet?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012