You want fireworks for the Fourth? Oh, I’ve got some fireworks for you—21 crazy boomsticks, in fact. All in honor of our nation’s 233 birthday.
Get fired up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGUqd_M6Mg
A note about your second amendment rights
Superweapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyHeFatu-n4
Metal Storm takes you down in a hail of gunfire [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/million-rounds-per-minute-ghastly-guns-putting-the-hur-288335
The Navy’s Railgun fires a projectile at 5,640 mph—one-third of its potential power. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/navy-rail-gun-test-destroys-everything-it-touches-at-5-351467
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOmowaLVco
The Cornershot does exactly what you think it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGpTssv3hCc
Boeing recently conducted a successful test with an advanced tactical laser mounted on a modified C-130. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/us-air-force-successfully-tests-advanced-tactical-laser-5295833
Hacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GAUnuuBkW4
The Rubber Band Gatling Gun takes out co-workers with 40 band per second firepower. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/disintegrator-gun-shoots-40-rubber-bands-per-second-pr-345666
Set your phasers to 1080p. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/blu-ray-star-trek-phaser-geeks-set-to-stunned-320340
Vietnam shotgun bong is one shot, one kill for glaucoma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6gLg2sWaJI
The Doing Da Vinci team builds Leonardo’s 11-barreled cannon for the first time.
The MythBusters paintball gun creates instant artwork with 1100 barrels. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/mythbusters-build-a-1100-barrel-paintball-gun-to-paint-5043303
The Toilet paper cannon is the ultimate weapon in the prankster’s arsenal.
This water balloon bazooka can fire 12 fluid-filled rounds at once. [Balloon Bazooka]
People Who Shouldn’t Be Around Weapons
Watch and laugh as Poncherello gets tasered.
Grandma is armed to the teeth, and she’s got her eye on your toodles.
Skinny girls and big guns don’t mix.
Toy Guns
This hacked Nerf Vulcan Chaingun shoots 500 rounds per minute. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hack-a-nerf-vulcan-to-fire-500-rounds-a-minute-5115844
This fully automatic gun fires Lego ammunition.
This realistic Halo 3 Plasma Rifle features lights, sounds and recoil. It even vents when overheated. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/halo-3-toy-weapons-have-realistic-light-sound-recoil-282840
Infrared Duck Hunter brings the classic NES game to life. [Latest Buy]
Weird Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uVTPRhWdfc
The G.R.A.D 22-cal knife gun is two kills in one. [Link]
https://gizmodo.com/gun-hidden-in-a-knife-its-two-two-two-kills-in-one-219363
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_TeYqvpk-A
The world’s smallest pistol fires 2mm blank pinfire cartridges.
https://gizmodo.com/swissminigun-not-intimidating-but-could-still-kill-you-194267
Grand Finale
Hot girls with guns.
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