Thursday, January 24, 2013

Gee, That's a Pretty Expensive...

...target. [Read]

That explains why this article's been recently resurrected.

[Via Harvey]

4 comments:

LC Scotty said...

Terahertz-another word for infrared. IR is typically absorbed strongly by water, and depending on how narrow a frequency band they're looking at, a gun shaped bladder with water in it should be enough to set it off.

Archer said...

Funny thing is, I can think of three or four very simple things that probably will thoroughly defeat the technology. It measures radiation naturally emitted by the human body, and just looks for objects that block it.

Solution: put another source of radiation between the gun and the device.

To defeat it, I could easily:
- Walk in the middle of a crowd.
- Turn my non-gun-side to face the device.
- Walk with my wife on my gun-side.
- Carry my daughter in my non-dominant hand, with the gun in a shoulder holster between our bodies.

CowboyDan said...

Choot it, Jimmy, choot it!

Ed said...

Get around this system by distributing cutout steel silhouette outlines of pistols as freedom and liberty party favors.

I did not know that mere possession of a gun warrants initiating a body search of there is not other reason for the encounter. Is this a presumption of guilt until you prove yourself innocent by producing a license to carry? Isn't this a similar strategy to scanning residences with an infrared scanner to determine whether anything of interest to the government was inside? A similar strategy would be to pull over all drivers of motor vehicles on the George Washington Bridge to ensure that each of the driver's license to operate a vehicle, vehicle registration, VIN and insurance are in order before they proceed on the streets of NYC. Gotta make sure those are not stolen cars because some are!

Run this one past the ACLU, not the NRA.