Timeline for Is there any way to make a nonlethal railgun?
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| Jan 11, 2021 at 18:41 | vote | accept | 11Bravo | ||
| Jan 10, 2021 at 10:10 | comment | added | user6916458 | @NomadMaker you could, but you run the rick of either the wires melting, or the surrounding plastic melting/catching fire. | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 1:43 | comment | added | Mon | The scenario is highly unlikely. This is a local law enforcement issue. If the government has seen fit to issue officers with a standard issue 'lethal' force option then by default they will have issued them with less lethal options. There isn't a police force in the developed world where the only use of force option - apart from going hands on is a firearm! Batons, handcuffs, tasers, OC spray, water cannons, baton rounds - the list goes on. And ALL of these options have somehow magically disappeared overnight. Not to mention new ones being invented in a supposedly high tech future. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 22:17 | answer | added | bobflux | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Jan 9, 2021 at 22:03 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 9:13 | answer | added | DonQuiKong | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 22:51 | answer | added | Arluin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 22:48 | answer | added | Arluin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 20:28 | comment | added | NomadMaker | @user6916458 You could put the bullet into a plastic container (like a shotgun shell) with conducting wires. The entire bullet doesn't need to be made of metal. | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 16:54 | answer | added | George Menoutis | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 15:04 | comment | added | user6916458 | Don't forget railguns (as we have them) require the bullet be made of metal you can put a rubber tip on it, but that might melt off as the metal heats during firing! | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 10:40 | comment | added | pjc50 | What often happens in reality: use the other end of the gun. Beating protestors with the butt of a rifle is a traditional police violence technique. | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 9:56 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | What exactly do you want to do? I think you're missing a big part of your question. Rebels + nonlethal rail gun = what exactly? Do you want to cripple all protesters? If you can disable, you can kill. It sounds like your entire plan is to randomly shoot into a crowd and then magic happens, the thread is stopped but nobody died. If that's your level of realism, you might as well say the rail gun is just non lethal. Could you please explain the strategy of your police force? Instead of a nonlethal weapon, choose a strategy that minimizes fatalities | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 8:15 | answer | added | Art Krenn | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 6:22 | comment | added | user6760 | R u familiar with Right Hand Rule? Basically the power of the accelerating projectile depends on how much juice(electricity) and mass of bullet, go with rubber bullet or chalk and go easy on the juice your target should be fine ;D | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 2:06 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 8, 2021 at 0:19 | comment | added | NomadMaker | Rubber bullets hurt a lot of people because the shooters use them improperly. Rubber bullets are usually made to be shot so they bounce off the ground before hitting the rioters. | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 19:51 | answer | added | DKNguyen | timeline score: 42 | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 18:25 | answer | added | Cadence | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 18:18 | answer | added | LSerni | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 18:11 | comment | added | AlexP | There is no such thing as a non-lethal weapon; there are only less lethal weapons. (Because a truely non-lethal weapon is obviously a non-weapon.) To reduce the lethality of rail guns do what we do with firearms: fire less lethal projectiles. Ground salt, rubber etc. In other words, you make a less lethal rail gun in the same way that you make a less lethal sling, or less lethal bow, or less lethal shotgun, and so on. | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 18:06 | history | asked | 11Bravo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |