Tag: GUNS
The city has just announced a two-year, $1.5 million pilot program of the ShotSpotter’s gunshot detection systems, which will be installed on rooftops across the city. Within ten seconds, the sensors can triangulate the source of a gunshot sound within 2 feet, provided it wasn’t a false alert, like a firework. ShotSpotter offers: The purpose of the […]
In 2013, the sleepy Colorado town of Deer Trail made a splash when one of its residents proposed issuing drone-hunting licenses, which would legalize opening fire on unmanned aircraft. Unsurprisingly, that’s not going to happen: according to the Denver Post, 73 percent of the 181 residents who voted on the ordinance were against it. Of course, the legislation […]
Just wonderful: John Morales, an actor who played McGruff the Crime Dog in Galveston, Texas, was sentenced to 16 years in prison recently for possession of 1,000 pot plants, a grenade launcher, 26 other weapons, and 9,000 rounds of ammunition. During Morales’s sentencing, District Judge Vanessa Gilmore told him “Everything I read about you makes you […]
In an effort to put more cops on the street, as many as two dozen police officers who lost their guns after shootings could be de-armed under a new plan from NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, the Daily News is reporting. Cops are put under modified duty any time they fire their weapons on the job while the department […]
And now, for the greatest news story of the day. Smoking Gun reports: A domestic dispute over space aliens escalated Saturday morning when a lingerie-clad New Mexico woman allegedly pointed a silver handgun at her boyfriend, a weapon she retrieved from her vagina, where it had been placed while the accused was performing a sex act, police […]
Remember all that noise about 3D-printed guns? And then the subsequent panicked government attempts to censor and regulate the downloads of files that take a huge, expensive effort to turn into breakable physical objects? F.A.T. artist Kyle McDonald has a few things to say about that. I believe that networked media, in its current form, can not […]
In the video above, one supremely nerdy dude shows off just how durable his homemade drone is. First, he flies it through a window. After a few tries, the glass breaks, and no harm is done to the drone. Then, he flies it through some fire, drops it from a few hundred feet, and shoots […]
The town of Deer Trail, Colorado hates drones, and has a plan to make sure no robotic eyes in the sky are snooping on its citizens’ lives: guns! We’re all for allowing people to protect themselves against surveillance, but this just seems insane: an ordinance proposed by Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel would allow the town to […]
Whoever you are, you are not as badass as one 54-year-old woman who was the victim of armed robbery last week. The woman was loading a car outside of her friend’s SoHo apartment when two men approached and commanded her to give up her wallet. One of the men put a gun to her head. […]
“It’s a representation of the evil and the beautiful, a reflection of the human condition,” says LA-based Austrian photographer Sabine Pearlman about her series AMMO — selects of 900 cross-section images of various bullets, as documented in a World War II bunker in Switzerland. It’s actually less of a metaphor on the human condition than it is a […]
