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    The R/C Nerf Tank (Dun Dun Dunnnn)

    Wicked Wii Nerf N-Strike Concept Weapons

    Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point

    Nerf N-Force Swords Deliver Solid Smiting Without the Fleshwounds

    Nerf N-Strike Raider CS-35: Lil' Dick Tracy's Automatic Tommy Gun With 35-Dart Drum Magazine

    Real Friends Don't Use Friends As Target Practice For World's Most Powerful Nerf Gun

    How To Hack a Nerf Vulcan to Fire 500 Rounds a Minute

    How a Nerf Gun is Made

    Battle at Chinese Nerf Factory Does Not, Sadly, Involve Nerf Weaponry

    Shooter Fire Extinguisher Adds a Little Nerf-iness to Battling Blazes
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    04/22/09

    In reply to The R/C Nerf Tank (Dun Dun Dunnnn)
    Needs more Charleton Heston...


    Lemee see:

    -Nerf Vulcan (Check)

    -Modded nerf Vulcan (600rd/minute) Check!

    -extra belts of nerf darts (Check!)

    -modded RC chassis (Check)

    -Time to build this and unleash on kids on front lawn...(none)

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    04/21/09

    In reply to The R/C Nerf Tank (Dun Dun Dunnnn)
    Commander! Nerf Tank was successfully deployed and target acquired. However, we were subdued before we could neutralize the enemy.


    Subdued? My God, Lieutenant! They already have superior fire power?


    No, sir. They have...uh...pillows.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    In reply to Wicked Wii Nerf N-Strike Concept Weapons
    When is someone going to come up with a Nerf Herder??
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    Image of Ibelieveinsandwitches Ibelieveinsandwitches
    03/19/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: They did develop prototypes, however, test groups responded poorly to them on account of how scruffy they were.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    @Ibelieveinsandwitches: I thought it tested well with spunky little Princesses....
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    Image of John_001 John_001
    03/19/09

    In reply to Wicked Wii Nerf N-Strike Concept Weapons
    Looks like the frak gun from Unreal Tournament.
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    Image of nanoalpha nanoalpha
    03/19/09

    @John_001: It's flak gun. And I was thinking the same thing.


    DOMINATING!

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    03/19/09

    @nanoalpha:


    nuh uh it's flak cannon

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    Image of Jordan Nagel Jordan Nagel
    03/19/09

    In reply to Wicked Wii Nerf N-Strike Concept Weapons
    Kaiser... do you roam gizmodo all day, waiting for your chance to pounce on a virgin story?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/19/09

    @Jordan Nagel: There are no virgins when Kaiser is 'round.


    @Kaiser-Machead: Some time back, Wired had a story about this paintball mortar which was wicked cool. I think they were designing a paintball howitzer.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/19/09

    @Jordan Nagel: This and ebay, pretty much. I'm not often "first", but I'll make sure to announce that next time for good measure.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/19/09

    @SpaceBat_GitEmSteveDave: [www.ultimatescenariopaintball.com]
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/19/09

    @Jordan Nagel: Kaiser has an experimental implant in his head that sends a signal every time an article is about to be posted on Giz (and any of it's sister sites too). It's easier to just think of it as his own personal Spider-Sense for blogs..


    Provided he's not otherwise occupied he responds promptly. And if he is busy then he'll reply as soon as he's available.

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    Image of Jordan Nagel Jordan Nagel
    08/26/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Hopefully the chip does not work with fleshbot, because we all know women can read minds.
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    Image of Evangelion Evangelion
    03/19/09

    In reply to Wicked Wii Nerf N-Strike Concept Weapons
    Those guns remind me of the rocket launcher and the minigun from Unreal Tournament 2004, the Demoman's grenade launcher, and the medigun from Team Fortress 2.
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    Image of 20GB 20GB
    03/19/09

    @Evangelion: Unreal Tournament is definitely the first thing that I thought of when I saw the picture for the tri-barreled gun. Not so sure about the TF2 medi-gun one...it's a little too long.


    And how well would the gun with the huge barrel work? You'd need either a lot of air compression or a big spring, it seems.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    03/19/09

    @20GB:


    the 8-ball gun from the original unreal bears uncanny resemblance to a couple of these.


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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    03/20/09

    @Evangelion: My first thought was of UT, though you don't need to limit it to 04, as UT3 also has one that looks very similar. Long live Unreal!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/19/09

    In reply to Wicked Wii Nerf N-Strike Concept Weapons
    I'd say that paintball guns are neglected on this sort of thing, but some really look like assault rifles, and some are even affixed with laser sights, so I suppose they win for realism.


    But I'd like a paintball shooter like this, that just gives one giant shotgun blast of paint to the face. I'd call it Blaster of Paris.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/18/09

    In reply to Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point
    "Go ahead punk. Make my clay."
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    03/18/09

    In reply to Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point
    Baaah, grow a pair. You don't need that extra eye!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/18/09

    In reply to Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point
    Less messy than paintballs, but the sneezing from the chalk cloud could be wicked.
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    Image of William T. Sprague Jr. William T. Sprague Jr.
    03/18/09

    In reply to Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point
    He is doing it wrong. He has the wrong eye closed for the hand he is holding it in! he'll never kill anyone that way!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/18/09

    @William T. Sprague Jr.: Someone has never seen Firebirds. I mean, Nick Cage w/panties on his head!?!?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/18/09

    @William T. Sprague Jr.: He's obviously displaying the trademarked Palin wink...
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    Image of shocksopping shocksopping
    03/18/09

    In reply to Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point
    I can't imagine that the darts would be allowed to fly very fast out of the "gun." Even a small amount of chalk/plastic mix can hurt if its going fast enough. Which brings me to my next point; why haven't we seen a modded version of this thing that gets the darts flying somewhere in the range of 100mph?


    [3007hq.blogspot.com]

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    Image of KirbyQuincy KirbyQuincy
    03/18/09

    @shocksopping: 100MPH isn't an overwhelming speed for a projectile. Paintballs can approach 200mph.
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    Image of William T. Sprague Jr. William T. Sprague Jr.
    03/18/09

    @KirbyQuincy:


    They measure those in feet per second though. i think tournament they are allowed max of 220fps?


    which is ONLY 150mph . . .hardly dangerous unless you are hit in the face, neck, chest, groin area . . .and what are the chances of that?

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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    03/18/09

    @William T. Sprague Jr.: Depends on where you play but it's typically 300fps max. Works out to a shade under 205mph. Most people will run their markers at ~280fps just to be sure they don't go over.
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    Image of Apothacary Apothacary
    03/18/09

    In reply to Chalk Guns Are Like Paintball Without the Paint, Tears, Or Point
    Hmm, very interesting, while I've not seen a chalk gun before I can see the appeal. Think about it, how cool would it be to see a little explosion of chalk dust as you hit your target :D


    Nerf is still king though.


    Any chance of a vid of this thing in action?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/18/09

    @Apothacary: They make a bullet that is composed of powder compressed at very high pressure. It is used in Polish Hostage situations. They get a sniper close enough and he shoots the gun. When the bullet hits the gun, it will usually blow the gun out of his hand, but the bullet immediately disintegrates, so there is little chance of the bullet continuing downrange. Of course, this can only be used in certain situations, as it is a precision shot, and can not be used when people's lives are at risk.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    03/18/09

    @ThatIdiotJeffrey_GitEmSteveDave: Polish hostage situations? Like when someone switches the sign on the door from "push" to "pull" and everyone gets trapped inside?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/18/09

    @m4ximusprim3: No, a Polish hostage situation is where someone holds themselves hostage. As in "If you send anyone in, I'll shoot myself". So it's like dealing with a hostage taker, except there is no bargaining as they can't "release" anyone.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/16/09

    In reply to Nerf N-Force Swords Deliver Solid Smiting Without the Fleshwounds
    N-Force?


    that has nothing to do with the N-Word, right?


    right???

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    02/16/09

    In reply to Nerf N-Force Swords Deliver Solid Smiting Without the Fleshwounds
    Gods, this just flashed me back to a time I was working at a local Community College, and when leaving work late one night, came upon a mass of people with PVC pipes wrapped in pipe insulation "battling".


    "2 DAMAGE" they yelled. And I shivered and went to my car to weep for humanity.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/16/09

    @SparkleMotion_GitEmSteveDave: And now you know they went on to design Nerf weaponry..
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