if i had a ray gun, i would name it Ronald- Ronald Ray Gun.

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This weapon is not something you hide in your pocket. It takes up most of the back of a hummer and the disk (actually more like a flat antenna) is maybe a meter across. And if the US used it some place and suddenly there were a bunch of dead or injured hostiles with 3rd degree burns, I don't think you could say it was "concealed properly". I agree with Noclevername, I don't see any point to such a use, that's why we have bullets.

The funny thing about that idea is that the woman from the Pentagon who is in charge of the program made a mild complaint that the program was underfunded and that is why it has taken so long to get it out into the field. And the reason for the underfunding... people in the Pentagon are not very excited about non-lethal weapons. So if it had lethal capacities, wouldn't the Pentagon had funded it more?

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A mattress is also good against tazers, rubber bullets, etc.