{"id":131661,"date":"2021-12-02T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-gun-company-is-now-selling-a-handheld-semi-automatic-railgun"},"modified":"2021-12-02T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:23:37","slug":"a-gun-company-is-now-selling-a-handheld-semi-automatic-railgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/a-gun-company-is-now-selling-a-handheld-semi-automatic-railgun","title":{"rendered":"A Gun Company Is Now Selling a Handheld Semi-Automatic Railgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gun-company-is-now-selling-a-handheld-semi-automatic-railgun2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Gauss Rifles [military squads] could pitch a solar panel, charge their guns\u2019 batteries, and fire nuts and bolts off the ground as ammunition.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cYou can hold far more energy in batteries than you can with gunpowder,\u201d Wirth told Futurism. And a battery eliminates the need for \u201cexplosive chemical propellants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s an entirely new type of armament that could have some potentially dangerous consequences, opening the doors to turn anything from metal rods to nuts and bolts into deadly projectiles. And its creators are already imagining military applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine a scenario where a military squad is pinned down behind enemy lines and they\u2019re out of ammunition,\u201d Wirth told us. \u201cWith Gauss Rifles they could pitch a solar panel, charge their guns\u2019 batteries, and fire nuts and bolts off the ground as ammunition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Gauss Rifles [military squads] could pitch a solar panel, charge their guns\u2019 batteries, and fire nuts and bolts off the ground as ammunition. \u201cYou can hold far more energy in batteries than you can with gunpowder,\u201d Wirth told Futurism. And a battery eliminates the need for \u201cexplosive chemical propellants.\u201d But it\u2019s an entirely new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-military","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}