Two researchers at Sandia's National Laboratories created a self-guided dart-like bullet able to strike a target more than a mile away. [More]You know, the same people who gave us this obscene nonsense under the rationale that "Only Ones" were having their guns taken away from them, so we needed to put electronic disablers on your and my guns...
Any bets on whether or not the citizen militia envisioned by the Founders as "necessary to the security of a free State" will have such ammunition denied to them? And they say there are no stupid questions...
Years back I wrote a magazine article on technology being developed for use by a federal standing army that is increasingly bringing it to a domestic "front" of the government's creation--technology denied to "We the People," and the danger that the Second Amendment could be rendered obsolete unless the definition of "arms" evolves with the times. I ended it repeating the observation that a battle isn't won until a man with a rifle occupies the ground, and noted someone probably once said the same thing abut spears.
So what am I saying? I'd deny every advantage to "our" troops?
Of course not. I just want to make sure the "necessary" ones have every advantage, too.
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