The "magic" of guns is that they are not magic. Despite the legend and lore of firearms, they just a subset of weapons. At appropriate distances, an assegai or a fougasse or a longbow would work just as well as a revolver or a rifle. What makes firearms, especially the handguns and other hand-held small arms is their defensive nature.

It is seldom ( Read more... )

Making a gun is easy. A conventional gun is a tube or a box with propellant (powder, gas, atomized liquid fuel or something else) on one and and a projectile (a bullet, a ball, a beverage can filled with concrete, an arrow in a sabot or something else). Enclosing one end is option, an RPG doesn't have that. Sights are optional, many guns, ( Read more... )

People use that term as if it is a bad thing. If I cooperate with a Canadian colleague on a project and we form a joint company, we are now that evil "multinational corporation". What are the alternatives ( Read more... )

Some say guns lead to suicides. Others claim there's no correlation. My theory is that gun control directly causes suicides ( Read more... )