Selling all my guns..............

[hammAR]

Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up
Tuesday , August 07, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292271,00.html

It looks like a big flashlight — but it's really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick.

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the "LED Incapacitator," according to a DHS online newsletter.

The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at.

"There's one wavelength that gets everybody," says IOS President Bob Lieberman. "Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it 'the evil color.'"

Phase 1 of the contract — creating a working prototype — has already been completed, and Phase 2 will begin this fall as researchers at Penn State's Institute of Nonlethal Defense Technology put the puke-saber through its paces.

"Phase 3 will be our shrink phase," Lieberman said, admitting that the prototype, 15 inches long with a 4-inch lens, is too large and heavy to be comfortably carried on a belt.

DHS hopes to equip police, Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen with the barf-beamers by 2010.

Technical Link: http://www.homelandsecurity.org/snapshots/newsletter/2007-07.htm#sick

[Pat Cannon]

Your guns will be of no value. I will do you the favor of disposing of them at no charge.

[hammAR]

Your guns will be of no value.

...according to some that is exactly the current value...................
same as the value of my rights, like the 2nd.....................

BTW: It is officially considered an arsenal..............

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[Srigs]

Anything that works on batteries will fail. Ammo is much more reliable!

[BRIT_in_the_weeds]

Whats the range of this gadget. I'd hang onto those .308's HammAR

[hammAR]

Whats the range of this gadget. I'd hang onto those .308's HammAR

I was just referring to replacing the defensive weapons.................

didn't say anything about offensive..

and Srigs, don't tell the SO :Anything that works on batteries will fail.....
she thinks the pace maker will keep me around for a few more years...............

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[plblark]

From you or Brit, EVERYTHING is offensive. I mean that in the kindest possible way of course

I'm such a nice guy that I'll buy you lunch and throw in a few bucks for a case of batteries for that thing in exchange for all those un needed gun. They need good homes after all

[hammAR]

You should learn not to stand in the middle of a pissing contest............and read the history of Chesty................

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[Ironbear]

Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up
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The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at.
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{begin today's science rant}

Grumble, grumble, grumble..... flipping liberal arts writers....

LEDS can't vary their wavelength. They almost certainly mean rapidly changing the pulse frequency (which, incidentally, has been known to trigger epileptic fits)

Wavelength and Pulse Rate are not the same thing!!! I wish they could get their terms straight!

{end today's science rant}

[hammAR]

Good point ironbear....................

Will my MIB sunglasses protect me......

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[BlackEagl]

Good point ironbear....................

Will my MIB sunglasses protect me......

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Only if they use the "wipe mind" setting, and not the "disorient/nausea" setting.

[BRIT_in_the_weeds]

Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up


Show me a fig. 11 or 12 target hoffing and I'll buy you a beer.

[hammAR]

What kind of beer............

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[Pat]

What kind of beer............
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Don't they call that "intubation by S&W?"

[Ironbear]

Good point ironbear....................

Will my MIB sunglasses protect me......

I'm not sure of the the specs on the MIB glasses....

However... I suppose that something along the line of the LCD-shuttered glasses they use for 3-D computer imaging, combined with a light sensor could be used to suppress the flashes.....

Now if could merge that with some way of suppressing images of walking fashion disasters, commercials, and politicians on TV, I might have a viable product!