The world of self defense is about to change dramatically. Where today
someone has the ability to protect themselves from perpertrators carrying a
firearm or knife, we now sit on the cusp of the future of personal defense
weapons systems.
Laser technology has been around for quite some time, but in terms of destructive
power has been pretty much restricted to the military realm.
All of that has now changed, as demonstrated by a young do-it-yourselfer
going by the Youtube moniker styropyro who
recently built a powerful laser device in his garage.
Dangerous is an understatement for this thing. There’s no, no good reason
for anybody to own something this powerful. But because it wasn’t illegal for
me to build, I decided to build it anyway.
Though his demonstrations focus his 40 watt laser beam on things like
paper, ping pong balls and balloons, the applications are limitless.
For now, building such a personal laser device is completely legal, but don’t
expect that to last after lawmakers see how powerful of a weapon it really
is. And some, including the builder, are already suggesting that such devices
shouldn’t be built by the average layperson:
Just because
you can make something at home, doesn’t necessarily mean you should. Today’s
example? A laser ‘shotgun’ that uses a lens to combine eight 5W lasers into
something that should definitely spice up your next PowerPoint.
The terrifying
death machine was built by YouTuber styropyro, who has a long and detailed
history of messing around with lasers. This particular rig uses eight 5W
lasers, mounted with parallel beams onto a giant heatsink, and powered with a
big-ass battery. The result is a fairly legit laser gun, capable of bursting
balloons and setting fire to pieces of wood.
While the laser
demonstrated in the video utilizes a mere 40 watts of power, a recent
military test by the United States Navy utilized a 30,000 Watt laser to take out everything from drones to boats.
But that doesn’t
mean such devices, kicked up with some additional wattage, couldn’t be used
for personal self defense applications that include the removal of irritating
spy drones that may be hovering over your property. Shotguns work, too, but
aren’t effective at longer ranges. A laser however, could easily disable such
electronic devices, and do so without making a sound.
And, though we
don’t have to specifically outline the threats for our readers, such devices
may completely change the playing field with respect to personal defense in
the event of a serious emergency where law and order as we know it today completely break down.
And that, of
course, is the reason we will soon see regulations, and more than likely,
criminal penalties for those who build such devices.
Nonetheless, for
enterprising inventors and scientists, laser technology, along with do-it-yourself electronic pulse devices, completely
change the playing field for freedom loving Americans.
