Guns

Gaming

Who Wants To Blow Up A Truck This Valentine’s Day?

4:00PM Today | Andrew Tarantola

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and if you’re dateless again this year (*raises hand*), don’t drown your sorrows with a bottle of Jack. Especially not when you can take out your unloved frustrations with an internet-connected machine gun. More »


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The Enormous Secret Weapons Depot Hidden Underneath Manhattan

2:00PM Today | Sam Biddle

Manhattan’s SoHo neighbourhood is mostly filled with bored models and stupid-expensive boutiques. But on one grimy, absolutely ignorable corner is the entrance to a cavern stuffed with guns, rockets, cocaine and riot shields. This is where Hollywood locks and loads. More »


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Watch This Dad Shoot His Daughter’s Laptop

3:45AM Today | Mat Honan

So this happened. It’s a father reacting to a post his daughter made on Facebook. He wasn’t happy. You can skip ahead to seven minutes for the big reveal. More »


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The Softer Side Of Chainsaw-Accentuated Rifles

6:00PM February 8, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

Rifles augmented with chainsaws designed to cut through zombie hordes are old hat, so when Guns & Gardens set about making theirs, they wanted it to be different. Cuter, more adorable, and more appealing to your stereotypical tweenaged girl. More »


Gadgets

Shoot The Lights Off With The BANG! Lamp

10:00PM February 3, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Clapping your lights on and off is comically passe. Why make all that noise you can toggle the room’s illumination with invisible bullets? More »


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Xappr Gun Brings Laser Tag To The Smartphone Generation

2:30AM February 2, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

When I was a kid, we lived first-person shooters, running around with vests and pistols in a game called Lazer Tag. It’s long gone, but this new Xappr Gun for smartphones looks like it might recreate some of that fun. More »


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How Did The Austrian Glock Become America’s Favourite Gun?

4:45AM January 26, 2012 | Casey Chan

I know next to nothing about guns but I know about the Glock. Chances are you do too. It’s become a part of the American fabric, as closely associated to the US of A as AK-47s are to terrorists, muskets were to colonials and light sabers to Jedis. More »


Gadgets

NYPD Wants Mobile Weapons Scanners For Touchless Patdowns

1:15PM January 18, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

The NYPD is in hot water with civil rights groups over its controversial Stop-and-Frisk policy. But NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has a solution — handheld weapons scanners that see guns under clothing! Fourth Amendment? What’s that? More »


Cars

Pissed Off Motorist Decides To Shoot Western Australian Speed Camera

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11:30AM January 16, 2012 | Nick Broughall

I’m sure it’s a thought that runs through many people’s heads after getting a ticket from a fixed speed camera, but one Western Australian motorist was enraged enough to get a gun and shoot the speed camera recently installed at the Mitchell Freeway near the Karrinyup Road exit this week. More »


News

America Loves Selling Guns To Egypt

4:00AM December 21, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Now that we’ve got YouTube, Google, and Facebook out of the way, how about another Hottest Trends List! This one’s a little morose though. Like, international arms sales morose. So who loves American best-in-the-world weapons? Kings and dictators. More »