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From: Schizi@***.com Schizi@***.com
Subject: Present day tech on guns
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:42:49 EDT
In a message dated 7/3/99 8:39:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
cyberraven@********.net writes:

> Gun still won't work when it does recieve the damn signal. They
demoed it
> a couple of months ago, and it took the designers, both of whom are
> electrical engineers and gunsmiths, twenty minutes of poking in the guts of
> it to get it to work. Twnety minutes is more than enough time to kill
> someone, reguardless of your method of choice. No thanks, that crap
> doesn't go on metal children.
> It also isn't hard to disable. You just have to know basic
gunsmithing
> and electronics to rip it out. Say, B/R Firearms and Electronics rolls,
> both TN 3, to disable it in game terms.

That of course assuming nothing changes in the intervening years. Such
technology will just be yet another price-point option IMO.

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