"I think lasers on the little pocket pistols they make these days would be a very good idea. They have crap iron sights on those things and you wouldn't even have to get the pistol up into firing position.

Not a bad little gadget IMO."

"For distracting zeds, absolutely, and likely for replacing sights outright as well, but as an extra tool IN ADDITION TO the existing sights they would still be worth having.

And BTW, what is a GutteSnipe? I googled it but didn't come up with anything."

"Yeah I like that Glock sight. And thanks for the clarification on the GutteSnipe."

"Ok, I watched Star Wars 2 (that was actually the 5th one to be made) and now I got the joke. They can't hit an elephant in a corridor with those things!"

"So funny story from one of my classes. We are extensively studying laser welding and cutting this semester. Modern industrial robots are frequently being mounted to robot arms. The laser we use in our laboratory is a 4kW the beam diameter before it is focused down through the optics system is referred to as the raw beam diameter. Even before being focused the beam is still dangerous.

So our professor is telling us this story. A large company (which will remain nameless) was looking at implementing a 10kW laser. They had a separate building set up with the laser connected to a robot. One side of the building had a garage door which happened to be open. One of the engineers noticed some crows sitting on a power line. The laser had a secondary low power beam that was used for targeting, so they got the bright idea to aim the robot at the crows and fire a pulse from the raw beam. The crow vaporized.

Moral of the story is, no matter how much education a redneck receives, he is still a redneck deep down."

"I think lasers on the little pocket pistols they make these days would be a very good idea. They have crap iron sights on those things and you wouldn't even have to get the pistol up into firing position.

Not a bad little gadget IMO."