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There are Youtube videos about flamethrowers, including (US M2/M2A1 Flamethrower) If a man is wearing a backpack flamethrower, what does he do with its gun-part when he needs his hands free to do something else? I thought of putting the gun part in a holster hanging from the belt of the...

See https://news.softpedia.com/news/A-Weapon-of-the-Future-Ultrasound-Using-Gun-81414.shtml for a non-lethal ultrasound gun, for use on land. But from what I have heard, powerful ultrasound underwater can be lethal, as water is a thousand times as dense as atmospheric air, and thus ultrasound...

I heard on a Youtube video recently that on Svalbard / Spitzbergen, (except in its main town Longyearbyen), everybody must have a gun, because of the danger from polar bears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5 See https://ft.lnwfile.com/_/ft/_raw/cv/iu/zo.jpg Someone made a CGI model of the MP5 SD6. He and I have had difficulty interpreting from images its fold-down rearsight and how it hinges up into its working position. Presumably when hinged...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun Google search for "coilgun" leads to some attempts to make coilguns. How far has development of coilguns advanced, in terms of?:- * Power / range / ability to make a hole in things * Weight and bulk, including onboard power supply / battery * How many...

At agricultural shows I have come across a type of imitation shotgun used for target practice :: it fires a low-powered laser beam; the target "clay" is strong plastic covered with reflector corners, which send the laser beam back to a laser detector on the gun. What is this device officially...

I have known from the beginning of what "gunpoint" or "at gunpoint" mean, plus occasional metaphorical uses to mean other sorts of compulsion. But recently I have heard a new use, to mean "a prepared position to install a cannon at".

See https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/08/20/breaking-news-kalashnikov-presents-new-assault-rifle-prototype-ak-308/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss for the new AK-308. The new magazine shape loses the characteristic AK47 look. I thought that Kalashnikov had a rule :: if n...

How often can it be said that the AK-n was first made in the year (1900+n)?

I have found some web pages including videos about rat elimination using a dog and a trained mink: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mink#Working Have you seen this subject anywhere online described neutrally rather than advertisorily?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piston_effect#Tunnel_boom for a somewhat unexpected need for firearms muffler/silencer technology on railways/railroads - - ends of railway tunnels needing mufflers/silencers like guns have.

In a pneumatic rifle, given no restriction on propellant gas/air cylinder size or cylinder pressure (even if the cylinder is too big to be hidden inside but must be visible), how does maximum power per shot compare with a full-powered rifle powered as usual by explosive-powered cartridges? (As...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP7 How easy is it to fire an MP7 in one hand? How common in films and videogames and art are pictures of a man firing two MP7's or similar, one in each hand? I have seen or heard of such representations with Uzis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1922_Bang_rifle There is a Model 1922 Bang rifle. It is a US semi-automatic rifle. But surely most most rifles go "bang" or similar??? Its name is because it was designed by the Danish arms designer Søren Hansen Bang.

http://www.screenused.com/images/auction_mar16/19507_1.jpg The image at that link is the film prop / fictional laser gun used in the film Fantastic Voyage. By the look of it, its back end is intended to carry some of the gun's weight on his shoulder and steady the gun without needing to absorb...

Is it known (and how early) for ordinary self-reloading semiautomatic rifles to fire fully automatic unintendedly because of some such cause as internal wear or damage, and that suggested making a rifle fire auto intendedly? Some of the early guns in this list...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90 In the FN P90, is the inside of the butt used to contain anything? Or is it solid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchi_SPAS-12 For CGI fans, I found a non-posable CGI model of an SPAS-12, and I have made a version posable with Poser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser The peculiar hook on the end of its foldable stock in some versions :: I found by a web search that it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APS_underwater_rifle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Ghosts Call of Duty: Ghost's underwater guns actually work in real life | GamesBeat | Games | by Rus McLaughlin Someone saw the APS used in the Call of Duty : Ghosts videogame, and thought...

Long ago I read in a newspaper that a report had come across an account of "humane flamethrowers" used as an antiriot weapon, and naturally understandably the reporter and I refused to believe it. But more recently I have heard of cases of flamethrowers being filled not with their usual...