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That's a different issue. Smuggling a small bullet past any security has got to be way easier than an entire gun.
by misnome 14y ago
That's a different issue. Smuggling a small bullet past any security has got to be way easier than an entire gun.
- gadders 14y agoApart from the fact they're metal. I don't think (but I could be wrong) that a design for a plastic bullet has been perfected.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoRubber bullets have killed people before, and I reckon rubber bullets would be as deadly as any other at close range.
- hga 13y agoGood point, and a blank is deadly at contact range. And the gun is aptly named after the WWII Liberator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator The objective of such crude and limited guns is to enable you to procure better ones, although of course this one is also an initial proof of concept, plus I gather intended to work though such issues as this takedown (I've read the guy or people behind this believe they've jumped through the required hoops to allow Internet publication). Although I'll note conventional ammo needs a metal case; there has been work on caseless ammo but it's not gotten beyond R&D, the G11 probably went the furthest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11.
- gadders 13y agoBut you can't fire a rubber bullet from a plastic gun. That gun as designed needs a propellant (cordite/gunpowder) to fire the metal slug at the end. And if you need a propellant, you can't use a plastic cartridge case. If you have a plastic "thing" firing a rubber projectile using a plastic spring or similar, then it is more like a crossbow than an actual gun.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoWhy not? I bet I could cast the charge out of an explosive resin.
- ISL 13y agoUseful bullets are dense. X-rays, essentially, scatter off density. Building a useful bullet that's relatively transparent to X-rays may be an impossibility.