Someone will try to pass a law based on untested technology in 3, 2
Nano-coated bullets could solve gun crime.
Nano-coated bullets could solve gun crime.
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:01 am
So how would the brits introduce this fabulous tech into the black market for ammo. It’s not like the british criminals are buying their ammo at the sporting goods store.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:34 am
Nonsense.
They don’t have guns over there to test this on.
February 1st, 2010 at 11:32 am
I think I have heard this from someplace before.
February 1st, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Lets see it will become airborne and become a sticky substance thats difficult to remove? Think lungs and airborne contaminants… OHSA and the EPA , let alone states such as California that are so environmentally aware, will ever allow that.
February 1st, 2010 at 12:26 pm
It would not matter how it is introduced. The idea would be to code the nano-particles to the intended user dna perhaps. The only problem is that what happens when the ammo is stolen or sold. If you shoot some then it is stolen and used in a crime you are the only one available to be accused. All it would do is make it easier for the police to find and convict the innocent. There would be a black market for it just for that reason. Picture the black market for ammo coded to barbara boxer. It would only be another feel good law that does not work.
February 1st, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Explosive taggants are already in common use – the powder used in ammo likely has a specific chemical profile that would allow brand and propellant specific ID of powder residue, if not additives that make the possible specificity even more, uhhhh, specific. One can do a lot with an AA spectrometer nowadays, for cheap, to forensically ID details of powder used.
Nano-anything is currently a hot field of research from solar cells to batteries to materials science to pharmaceuticals to semiconductors. More importantly, at least to those looking for funding for research, nano-anything helps generate research grants. So expect nano-stuff to continue to appear in firearms related research as well as every place else imaginable for the foreseeable future.
Anyone for a nanoceramic coating on the barrel interior of your favorite rifle, leading to less required cleaning or higher repeatability shot to shot? How about nano-diamond coated bullets that make Black Talons look tame? How about additives to propellants that can make a .32 ACP shoot like a 44 Magnum, without overpressure problems? Imagine it, and it can happen with nano-stuff.
February 1st, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Mikee,
To the best of my knowledge taggents are not used in explosives. It certainly isn’t required by law and I know the explosives industry pushed back very hard when it was proposed. The smokeless powder manufactures pushed back even harder.
Did I miss something and the industry adopted the technology without me noticing?
February 1st, 2010 at 4:34 pm
No, you are correct. “Taggants” as that word is commonly understood are not used in propellants. It is me conflating the technology available, but not in use, with the industry practice and also with the ability to ID specific chemicals and forensically specify what came from where.
I used to work with a SC chemist on forensics for arson and other cases where GC, LC, AA and other simple benchtop machines could ID the arson accelerant down to the brand and lot of gasoline, or a chemical composition of the explosive propellant.
Also, 30microns (the size of the proposed ID agents) is about 30,000 nanometers. I think the author of the original article does not know his microns from a hole in the ground, and knew only that “nanotechnology” is really really hot these days.