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TIL in 2005 A Texas man created an internet controlled remote firearm with webcam mount for people wanting to hunt game online. It was quickly shut down by the Government of Texas.
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But instead of a bipod mount it's on a drone.
Somebody put a flamethrower on a drone a couple of years back, so it's not that far-fetched
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You can usually catch them in the grass south of Pallet Town, but you'll need to use Surf to get there.
With a drone army like that you could conquer more land than Kangaskhan.
Oh man, I knew the guy who did the programming for the set up. It was supposed to be a way for disabled people to be able to hunt even if they couldn't make it to the hunting grounds. He was thrilled to have helped create something that managed to get the notoriously pro-gun Texas government to step in and restrict it.
I don't understand how one can be proud of that. I mean, if you manage to get Texas to restrict a firearm device, then that just means you've made something profoundly dangerous on every level.
Dear Lord.. I just realized how easy this would be to do.
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I can do it with a piece of string
Yeah, I remember that. One of the dumbest ideas out there. "Let's put a gun in the middle of a fenced in area and let anyone use it! No one will abuse that!" Not to mention that it's not even hunting.
It wasn't exactly a dumb idea. It was ideally hunting for the disabled. People got this big hate boner for it because the animals were effectively penned in to be shot, but that's very much the same as modern trap shooting, which remains completely legal.
Isn't trap shooting clay pigeons?
Do you really think prepubescent little kids wouldn't find their way to that site to abuse it? I'd love to have that kind of naivety
Can they really do anything worse than trap shooters already do?
The worst thing I can imagine the kids doing, assuming the place is well managed, is shooting a creature specifically to cause it pain, then watching it die. Hunters do that sort of thing already.
The only difference here is that, assuming they were paying with a credit card, they could be more easily charged with cruelty to animals. If hackers get in, then it's on the organization running the service.
I have no problem with such a service existing because there is no real difference between it and modern hunting.
Drone before it was cool.
Classic Texas.
I'm really surprised Texas shut down any fun legislation
This was actually in a Dexter comic, when he goes to Australia to help with a case. I forget the exact details, but pretty much this idea.
Probably cuz it sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. :[
What exactly is that show about?
An incrediby-probable, and not-so-distant future.
Pessimistic and poorly thought out near-future scenarios that try to make people scared of technology.
First episode will pull you in...
This week on "Texas Man"
Look up TrackingPoint located in central Texas. They sell 'smart guns' that synch to your finger print and only shoot targets that have been painted, as in the same technology the military uses for missile strikes. The company mounts a camera on the guns that record everyshot ever fired from the gun remotely to Thier company. It really kind of creeped me out when I found out about it all.
oh come on, what is wrong with a remotely operated firearm? there is like nothing that could go wrong with that.
If these were everywhere in the US, foreign governments hacking would be a whole different issue
You have to join the US military if you want to hunt with drones
You want terminator? cause this is how you get terminator.
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Texas really should respect 2nd Amendment rights.
Texas love innovation and creativity in business.
Unless it's done by companies that aren't old, rich, and funding politicians and their families.