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Cleveland Turns 700 Guns into Appliances

Yesterday, authorities from the city of Cleveland joined efforts with Arcelor Mittal Cleveland to organize a program that will have the objective of melting approximately 700 guns. Three days earlier, Cleveland's inhabitants gave up their guns and were rewarded for their noble intention with gift cards. Als...

21 October 2011
03:05 GMT

RAGE Diary: The Shooter Masters Are Back

I have only played about 8 hours of RAGE until now but I can safely say that the actual shooting in this game is great and manages to bring back fond memories of the time I spend with the various Quake and Doom titles of my youth.id Softwqare have always had two big claims to fame: they tended to revolutionize the st...

13 October 2011
18:11 GMT

New Sighting System Boosts Gun Accuracy

Scientists from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, led by associate professor Timothy Kraft, announce the development of a new sighting system for firearms, one that they say easily surpasses the one currently used in a variety of firearms around the world. They state that their system is a significant improvem...

12 December 2009
04:55 GMT

'Boat-Stopping' Gun Devised in the UK

A number of scientists, academics and private sector investors in the United Kingdom are at this point testing their newly-developed anti-terrorism weapon, a shoulder-level gun that can immobilize speeding boats. The system it uses is quite ingenious, albeit fairly high-tech. It essentially shoots a net at an incomin...

14 August 2009
20:11 GMT

Tacoma Kid Tries to Swap Gun for PSP at School

The PlayStation Portable is a popular device as it has sold over 50 million units worldwide since its release. It gained a lot of popularity with teenagers and hardcore gamers because it had a lot of interesting features and a pretty decent lineup of quality games. But it now seems that PSP is so popular that kids a...

22 April 2009
15:01 GMT

'Multi-Tasking' Policemen Less Likely to Shoot Innocents

According to a new scientific study, policemen who are more able than their colleagues to keep a hold of their temper while in life-threatening situations are also less likely to shoot people who are not actually carrying guns. While this may seem like the logical thing to do, there are many instances in which indivi...

31 March 2009
10:52 GMT

Illegal Brazilian Tree Cutters Use Guns to Scare Authorities

The town of Paragominas was home to incredible scenes on Sunday, as a mob of approximately 3,000, protesting against the federal government's crackdown on illegal logging in the region, took to the streets and opened fire on a shed housing the cars of the federal inspectors. They also stole back the trucks that ...

25 November 2008
05:41 GMT

Mirror's Edge Developer Talks About Guns and Gameplay

Mirror's Edge is shaping up to be one of the most innovative and fresh games this holiday season. It promises to put the player in the running shoes of a young woman, Faith, who is a courier in a futuristic dystopian city where people are observed 24/7 and the only safe spots are the roofs of the buildings. This...

12 November 2008
03:15 GMT

Umbrella Chronicles Is a Capcom Success

The Resident Evil saga is a long one. It involves zombies, mad scientists, innocent little girls, unlikely heroes, big corporations cover-ups, guns and, of course, more zombies. What's there not to like? The games have long drawn players in with the combination of action, mystery and puzzle solving.The latest re...

5 March 2008
03:15 GMT

Firearms into Space?

You would probably think that space is the last place in the universe where one may find a shotgun. Of course the possibility of that to ever happen is rather slim, but nonetheless it doesn't mean that firearms cannot be found into space. Russian Soyuz capsules have been routinely carrying guns into space for so...

13 February 2008
05:02 GMT

Kid Rock (or Pebble) to Run For President

Remember me telling you that kid Rock ranked among the world's most profound thinkers? Well, you can refresh your memory here and then come back to learn more about his intellectual exploits that will most certainly shock and amaze you. It seems that Kid Rock (or, in the words of another contemporary classic tha...

8 October 2007
06:16 GMT

US Army Is Testing Weapons in University

The US Army has just started a new weapons testing program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Fortunately, they didn't give guns to students, instead they used the Highly Accelerated Life Testing chamber in a new laboratory.This testing chamber is going to be used by the university to assist the milit...

3 July 2007
03:34 GMT

How Does the Most Powerful Sonic Weapon Work?

Recent escalations of urban conflict and an increasing need for powerful, yet non-lethal weapons led to development of a sonic weapon that doesn't kill, but can make you pass out and even permanently deaf.Sonic weapons have been made popular by science fiction productions, but they are also used in reality, not...

27 June 2007
10:18 GMT

TW-ESG-Z1: "Anti-Violence" Gun for the Masses

The Anti-Violence Electrode Shock Gun is not really violence-free. I would be very surprised to see people waving this thing over their heads while participating in an anti-violence meeting.It's actually a pro-violence thing that can shoot out "anti-violent" paint bullets, rubber bullets (15 meters range) and pe...

7 May 2007
13:11 GMT


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