Badass functional Gauss Pistol.

GagHalfrunt

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Apr 19, 2001
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Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Originally posted by: Anubis
can it kill people?

I don't see why it couldn't.


Only if it fired something the target was allergic to. There are dozens of functioning models around and they're essentially proof-of-concept. I've seen the ballistics and none of them are very powerful. Throwing rocks is far more dangerous.
 

CrackRabbit

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Mar 30, 2001
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Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Originally posted by: Anubis
can it kill people?

I don't see why it couldn't.


Only if it fired something the target was allergic to. There are dozens of functioning models around and they're essentially proof-of-concept. I've seen the ballistics and none of them are very powerful. Throwing rocks is far more dangerous.

They had some video up of them shooting bottles and cans with it, but they seem to of run out of bandwidth. It has to be at least as powerful as a BB gun or .22 rifle.


 

paulney

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It can only break certain bottles and penetrate tin cans. It can't break a champagne bottle, for example.
You can fire every 25 seconds.

The author is currently working on another project which will include a longer barrel and multiple stages of accelerating coils.