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Old 09-12-2009, 12:30 PM   #1
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The Right To Keep And Bear - Home-made Rail Guns

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Old 09-12-2009, 12:36 PM   #2
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Re: The Right To Keep And Bear - Home-made Rail Guns

interesting...
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Old 09-13-2009, 01:43 AM   #3
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Re: The Right To Keep And Bear - Home-made Rail Guns

What shoots out of that thing?
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Old 09-13-2009, 01:51 AM   #4
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Re: The Right To Keep And Bear - Home-made Rail Guns

I'd also like to see the "projectile" they use in this...

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What shoots out of that thing?
A railgun is an entirely electrical gun that accelerates a conductive projectile along a pair of metal rails using the same principles as the homopolar motor.

Railguns use two sliding or rolling contacts[1] that permit a large electric current to pass through the projectile.
This current interacts with the strong magnetic fields generated by the rails and this accelerates the projectile.

The U.S. Navy has tested a railgun that accelerates a 3.2kg projectile to seven times the speed of sound.[2]

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Re: The Right To Keep And Bear - Home-made Rail Guns

Give it a year and Bosch will have a battery operated roofing rail gun.
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Makes my potato gun look like a toy!
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