To reduce accidental deaths during civil disturbances, firearms manufacturer FN Herstal has developed a gun that not only fires less-than-lethal elastomer projectiles, it has a digital smart sight that can recognize human heads and refuse to fire at them.
  • flyingtrucky@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    12.55mm elastomer rounds fired by compressed air? FN Herstal built a Nerf gun.

    Nerf darts are .50 caliber (12.7mm), and Nerf Hyper balls are 14mm elastomer (Which funnily enough is pretty darn close to the 14.5mm of the 14.5x114 round.)

    Also everyone is just gonna put a piece of electrical tape over the camera as soon as they get one.

    • shalol@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Or better yet, protestors wearing masks like it’s body armor so it won’t be able to shoot at all

      • Achmetan@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Honestly the masks and other facial coverings may prevent the camera’s recognition of facial features, thereby making this programmed safety not engage at all. 🤔

    • GrimDallows@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Or, you know, just wear a Tshirt with a face picture on it.

      Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

    • Notyourfathersgeek@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Nah. They’ll tape a picture of a tree in front of the camera. Then kill someone with a headshot and come out innocent because of SmArT GUn

      • guzhogi@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I wonder if the gun would take pictures of what you aim at every time it’s fired? Then the powers that be would be like “Why are you shooting a tree, and the same one at that?” If they delete the picture, “Hey how did you fire 10 rounds, but only 8 pictures?” or “Where’s the picture for shot #136?”