Friday, March 2, 2012

What Controversy?


Controversy is apart of our society. So would there be controversy if the government made a weapon that do not have to be manned, could shoot over one million rounds a minute and quarter of a million 40mm grenades a minute? You probably think that these types of gun only exist in movies or TV shows. You would be completely wrong.

When I was watching the Discovery Channel I came upon this video of this gun called Metal Storm. It was developed for the military by Metal Storm Limited which develops electronic weapons. There gun is different from other guns because the only moving part is the bullet. When you fire the gun an electric emissions system to sends the bullet out.

They also have made handguns that can fire three rounds within less than a second before the gun recoils. Another advantage to this gun is that this gun can never jam. A gun jamming could lead to severe injury or worse, death. This gun never jams because if one of the signals does not go through then the next round would just push the next one out.

Metal Storm also has sensors. It shows where one’s people are and where all of the enemy’s are. This allows the military to devise a plan on how to put the most hurt on the enemy with the least fire power.

So why does this affect tour life? There are many ways that it can, one is black market trading. People always want to make more money so they could sell the plans on how to build this gun. Also people who commit crimes here may be able to get them since they can get almost any gun with enough money. If a criminal had this gun then he would be able to commit any crime he wanted because this gun is deadly accurate and can rip through any type of armor.

What other things are the government making that you do not know about? Have they found a bomb stronger than the hydrogen bomb? Have they really stopped making bombs?

1 comment:

  1. I would hate for this to get into the wrong hands. You put forward a lot of good questions at the end. I'll be thinking about this during break...

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