This 21-Gun Salute To America Blows Fireworks Away
You want fireworks for the Fourth? Oh, I’ve got some fireworks for you—21 crazy boomsticks, in fact. All in honour of our nation’s 233 birthday.
Get fired up
A note about your second amendment rights
[Busted Tees]
Superweapons
Metal Storm takes you down in a hail of gunfire [Link]
The Navy’s Railgun fires a projectile at 5,640 mph—one-third of its potential power. [Link]
The Cornershot does exactly what you think it does.
Boeing recently conducted a successful test with an advanced tactical laser mounted on a modified C-130. [Link]
Hacks
The Rubber Band Gatling Gun takes out co-workers with 40 band per second firepower. [Link]
Set your phasers to 1080p. [Link]
Vietnam shotgun bong is one shot, one kill for glaucoma.
The Doing Da Vinci team builds Leonardo’s 11-barreled cannon for the first time.
The MythBusters paintball gun creates instant artwork with 1100 barrels. [Link]
The Toilet paper cannon is the ultimate weapon in the prankster’s arsenal.
This water balloon bazooka can fire 12 fluid-filled rounds at once. [Balloon Bazooka]
People Who Shouldn’t Be Around Weapons
Watch and laugh as Poncherello gets tasered.
Grandma is armed to the teeth, and she’s got her eye on your toodles.
Skinny girls and big guns don’t mix.
Toy Guns
This hacked Nerf Vulcan Chaingun shoots 500 rounds per minute. [Link]
This fully automatic gun fires Lego ammunition.
This realistic Halo 3 Plasma Rifle features lights, sounds and recoil. It even vents when overheated. [Link]
Infrared Duck Hunter brings the classic NES game to life. [Latest Buy]
Weird Guns
The G.R.A.D 22-cal knife gun is two kills in one. [Link]
The world’s smallest pistol fires 2mm blank pinfire cartridges.
Grand Finale
Hot girls with guns.
[Image via Flickr; special thanks to Don the Intern for research assistance]
Comments (AU Comments | US Comments)
The airborne laser was tested on a house with a giant jiffy pop inside. Filled the entire house with popcorn!
Joe Bradley
The army's 5 inch arty guns they use for salutes are cool, but line up 7 M1 Abrams to do the job, will make me go Tim Taylor every time.
Nighthawke
Gee that c-130 looks a lot like a 747
DarwinBC
american's and their fucking guns
@Uncletwitch: That, and to prevent man from being killed. The best defense, as you may know....
Isernhagen
the last video definitely was the best one!
awesome
leuch3rd
@+ Watch video
Pwnerjam3.0
don't forget this one:
Pwnerjam3.0
Every single one of these videos needs the caption:
"AMERICA: FUCK YEAH"
Mason Strong
@Benjamin Urquidez: I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
i really want a blueray phaser now...
fullyrandomtandem
I was scrolling down and saw only the top part of the first picture, and it looked like a blown up picture of a Cheeto.
Benjamin Urquidez
Looks like lil miss jackson there had an orgasm from that shock lol.
Kakkoister
Isn't it wonderfull the lengths man has gone to, to kill each other..
Uncletwitch
Lol I had just posted that independence day vid on a friends facebook page when she was commenting about how our independence day was coming up.
TheCrudMan
I've got a railgun that shoots millions of droplets a second - especially after a 24 pack.
sharkync
The first image clearly comes from a graduate of the Iran school of photoshopping.
WayneFuries
The THEL mentioned in the Future Weapons video is not a solid state laser. It's a gas laser. Solid state would be like a ruby, ND:YAG, or a semiconductor laser.
FrankenPC
I Can Haz "Boomstick"?
The Mythbusters one is absolutely insane. Really great visual representation of CPU vs. GPU
way to make fun of the 2nd amendment.
Daren
Better get that railgun ready for battleship use, how else would we take down Devastator?
You know, if any of these were from Iran, I'd say they were photoshopped, but they all look legit.
As a request, if anyone would like to get a July 4th present, please send Capt. Mack "Hyperbole" Machowicz to a far away island. That man just bothers me on like an 8th level of Hell way.
I want that water balloon bazooka!!
BTW independence day FTW
Amir Oulad
I like the gun bong. Too bad I don't have a gun. Then again, I'm not sure I'd like to have a gun while I'm high. And thanks for the last video, it made my day.
@armendni: Amen. It's quite disturbing, but not surprising, that Americans would celebrate their birthday drooling over killing devices.
indorock