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It would be interesting if S&W could bring a lot of high tech ideas to bear in one revolutionary device.
Settings: Area Effect - A High Intensity Sound Blast Stun - A Taser Kill - A .40-cal semi auto. Self Destruct Capability - if user is disarmed by assailant. Additional Capabilities: On Star - Something that opens channel to Summon Authorities and transmits GPS data. Integrated Video - Documents use of weapon Integrated Laser Aiming Device This one might be more for the police than for citizen concealment and I can see some serious liability issues. But, it would be interesting to see a weapon of tommorrow concept. |
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In the heat of an emergency do not goof up on the correct choice of operating mode.
 Such a gun/device would have to contain lots of electronics and batteries. Do NOT let your batteries die! Also the self destruct seems to me like it would require the authorized user wear a ID ring or some similar device. How does the weapons system differentiate between voluntary and involuntary separation of the operator and gun? Easier to have it deactivate rather than fully self destruct I would think. Interesting concept, just not sure that it can be implemented with current technology or how reliable such a multifunction setup could be made. As a retired quality/reliability engineer I always found that KISS was the way to go. Even more so IMO in a device needed to possibly save your life in emergency circumstances. |
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I'll buy any phaser S&W decides to put out but only if it has a lock!
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It's for the children. That said, I think a phaser would rock. Set it for stun and have some fun at work. I could lose the pepper spray, baton, gun and just have one handy device to take care of business. |
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--------------- Yup, that's where the product liability concern comes in. And, why I left off the MP3 player, address book, and e-mail connectivity . . .  |
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Third generation TDA pistols had something better than a self-destruct - the 'backwards' thumb safety and the magazine disconnector. If someone is prying your gun out of your hands, sweep the safety 'on' and dump the magazine. Shoot them with your second gun while they try to figure out how to make the one they took from you go 'bang'.
Since this is the 'wish list', I'll repeat my wish for the return of the third generation pistols, without MIM parts (and don't even THINK about trying to hang a lock on it). |
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If they ever do develop something like it, care to guess that something as stupid as eating flax seed oil, or wearing an aluminum foil hat will be it's Achilles heel? Also, I'd be intrigued knowing what a peripheral hit would do, when the unit was set on lethal? Would the results be like losing an appendage to a light saber, perhaps?
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To me a Phaser always sounded like a disintegrator or some such. On lethal no inconvenient bodies left behind for the coroner to deal with.
In Science Fiction stories some also have a non lethal setting which just knocks the recipient out for a while. Good question though, what would a peripheral hit do in lethal mode on a true Phaser. Also where does all of the victims matter go? If converted to energy it better be a LONG RANGE device. I do not want to be anywhere in the area when 200 pounds of perp gets converted to energy. |
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If phasers and other "particle beam" weapons are so great, why is it that you can see the beam or the blaster shot -- and have time to duck...
Watch scenes from Star Trek closely next time... Lots of transit time to duck... Crap, I think a 10mm might be more advanced than phaser fire...At least you can't see a 10mm coming at you... |
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And a light saber is a more elegant weapon for a more civilized time...
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Outrider;
NEVER confuse Hollywood special effects with real world Physics. After all apparently one recent effort from those guys has a bullet shooting around corners due to the shooter giving the pistol just the right movement at the moment of firing. One major advantage of current gun technology is that it still pretty much follows the old rule of KISS. Same for ammo. Even stored for 50 years or more it still works. Try that with Phaser battery packs. And what would EMP from a high altitude burst nuclear bomb blast do to all of the electronocs circuits in a wonder weapon? |
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