OBAMA REGIME wants $182M to push gun bans across USA

1. “End the freeze on gun violence research”???

   Didn’t Obama have the CDC do a report with results blatantly contradicting the need for more gun control?

   1. Facts confuse them only briefly.

2. As the communist community organ grinder in DC wants to limit 10 rounds in a magazine, I suggest they limit him to 10 words or less a day to eliminate global warming.

   1. What globull warming? Hasn’t been any “warming” since 1997, and it doesn’t matter if 0’blamer only speaks 10 words a day, they will still all be lies!

3. The obama administration is now saying that children can be terrorist.

   When a government can claim they can define children as terrorist that government has NO moral authority

4. Yea and they just gave up something like 100 million for a. Obama library. I know what that will be…..

5. the threat is from within …
   Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs
   POSTED: 7:56 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2006

   WASHINGTON (AP) — Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
   The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
   “If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. “(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press.”
   The Air Force has paid for research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service is unlikely to spend more money on development until injury problems are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.
   Nonlethal weapons generally can weaken people if they are hit with the beam. Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also can be effective in disabling some electronic devices.
   On another subject, Wynne said he expects to choose a new contractor for the next generation aerial refueling tankers by next summer. He said a draft request for bids will be put out next month, and there are two qualified bidders: the Boeing Co. and a team of Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., the majority owner of European jet maker Airbus SAS.
   The contract is expected to be worth at least $20 billion (€15.75 billion).
   Chicago, Illinois-based Boeing lost the tanker deal in 2004 amid revelations that it had hired a top Air Force acquisitions official who had given the company preferential treatment.
   Wynne also said the Air Force, which is already chopping 40,000 active duty, civilian and reserves jobs, is now struggling to find new ways to slash about $1.8 billion (€1.4 billion) from its budget to cover costs from the latest round of base closings.
   He said he can’t cut more people, and it would not be wise to take funding from military programs that are needed to protect the country. But he said he also incurs resistance when he tries to save money on operations and maintenance by retiring aging aircraft.
   “We’re finding out that those are, unfortunately, prized possessions of some congressional districts,” said Wynne, adding that the Air Force will have to “take some appetite suppressant pills.” He said he has asked employees to look for efficiencies in their offices.
   The base closings initially were expected to create savings by reducing Air Force infrastructure by 24 percent.
   Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed
   “Airman injured in heat-beam test”
   By Kris Osborn – AIR FORCE TIMES, Staff writer
   Posted : Friday Apr 6, 2007 8:42:35 EDT
   An airman received second-degree burns April 4 during a test of the
   Defense Department’s nonlethal millimeter-wave heat beam at Moody Air
   Force Base, Ga., according to Marine Corps Maj. Sarah Fullwood,
   spokeswoman for the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator program,
   Quantico, Va.
   The airman was burned as the Air Force’s 820th Security Forces Group was
   testing a demonstrator version of the Active Denial System, a
   Humvee-mounted system that produces an intense heat beam.
   He was being treated at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Ga., and is expected
   to make a full recovery, Fullwood said.
   Fullwood said more than 600 people have been exposed a total of more than
   10,000 times to the beam, and there has only been one other injury that
   required medical attention: a case of second-degree burns that occurred
   during lab testing in 1999.
   “We are going to investigate this and conduct a thorough evaluation. The
   extended user evaluation has been put on hold until the investigation in
   complete,” Fullwood said.
   She said the ADS program would continue after the investigation.
   Formal acquisition of the system is planned for 2010.
   The ADS grew out of 12 years of Defense Department research and
   development of a weapon to deter people — rather than kill. The Defense
   Department has spent about $80 million on the ADS effort, which began in
   1998 as an Advanced Technology Research Demonstrator at Kirtland Air Force
   Base, N.M.
   The heat beam fires after a generator on the Humvee creates 50,000 volts
   of electricity, which powers a gyrotron, a tube that bunches electrons in
   a magnetic field to emit a 130-degree-Fahrenhe it directed-energy beam,
   said Diana Loree, who runs ADS efforts at the Air Force Research
   Laboratory at Kirtland.
   Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs
   POSTED: 7:56 p.m. EDT, September 12, 2006
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   WASHINGTON (AP) — Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
   The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
   “If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. “(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press.”
   The Air Force has paid for research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service is unlikely to spend more money on development until injury problems are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.
   Nonlethal weapons generally can weaken people if they are hit with the beam. Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also can be effective in disabling some electronic devices.
   On another subject, Wynne said he expects to choose a new contractor for the next generation aerial refueling tankers by next summer. He said a draft request for bids will be put out next month, and there are two qualified bidders: the Boeing Co. and a team of Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., the majority owner of European jet maker Airbus SAS.
   The contract is expected to be worth at least $20 billion (€15.75 billion).
   Chicago, Illinois-based Boeing lost the tanker deal in 2004 amid revelations that it had hired a top Air Force acquisitions official who had given the company preferential treatment.
   Wynne also said the Air Force, which is already chopping 40,000 active duty, civilian and reserves jobs, is now struggling to find new ways to slash about $1.8 billion (€1.4 billion) from its budget to cover costs from the latest round of base closings.
   He said he can’t cut more people, and it would not be wise to take funding from military programs that are needed to protect the country. But he said he also incurs resistance when he tries to save money on operations and maintenance by retiring aging aircraft.
   “We’re finding out that those are, unfortunately, prized possessions of some congressional districts,” said Wynne, adding that the Air Force will have to “take some appetite suppressant pills.” He said he has asked employees to look for efficiencies in their offices.
   The base closings initially were expected to create savings by reducing Air Force infrastructure by 24 percent.
   Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed

   Army develops smaller nonlethal pain beam
   Oct. 26, 2013 – 12:04PM |

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   Solid State – Active Denial Technology: The Solid State Active Denial Technology (SS-ADT) is a non-lethal weapon system which disrupts hostile activities and can deny personnel from remaining in specific areas, without causing permanent physical harm or collateral damage.
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   ARDEC’s prototype, the box-shaped device at left, is intended to improve the size, weight and power of an earlier Active Denial System, part of the Defense Department’s Non-Lethal Weapons Program. (Army Armament Research, Development and Engineerin)
   Researchers at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., are developing a pain beam weapon that could lead to “active denial” technology eventually deploying with soldiers to aid in nonlethal crowd control.
   It is called Solid State Active Denial Technology, and it uses radio frequency millimeter waves at 95 GHz to create a brief but intolerable stinging sensation on a person’s skin. The beam is invisible and silent, and it penetrates glass and clothing.
   The directed-energy weapon prototype from Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center is the size and weight of a remote weapons station, according to Ed Robinson, the project officer at ARDEC. It looks like a mini-refrigerator in an artist’s rendering.
   “It’s an intense heat sensation. It makes you want to get out of the way because you feel that intense heat,” said Robinson, who has been on the receiving end. “Once you step out of the beam or it is off, you no longer feel the beam. There are no residual effects.”
   The gallium nitride solid-state source works by generating a line-of-sight energy beam that penetrates human skin to 1/64th of an inch, heating water molecules and agitating nerve endings, Robinson said.
   Robinson stressed that the system is safe because it requires a soldier “in the loop.”
   Its software regulates the amount of energy and allows it to fire only in several-second bursts, which he said is well below the threshold for permanent damage.
   He said at ARDEC, they avoid calling it a “pain ray” and that it does not feel like being burned.
   “We’re imparting enough energy [inside] the limits to where we do not burn someone,” he said. “That should never happen.”
   The effort was intended to improve the size, weight, power and cooling consumption of an earlier gyrotron-based Active Denial System, which is part of the Defense Department’s Non-Lethal Weapons Program.
   The Pentagon’s system, which is several tons heavier than ARDEC’s system, comes mounted on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck.
   Robinson compared ARDEC’s lighter system with the Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station commonly found on Humvees and mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles. Though the solid state system is less powerful than the larger DoD system, it still works at “tactically relevant engagement ranges,” he said.
   He said ARDEC’s system likely would not be fielded to soldiers until 2020. For now, ARDEC has been demonstrating a small-scale prototype within the Army to get positive feedback, with plans to go to a larger prototype next year.
   “We’ve already had engagements with various customers, users and schoolhouses,” Robinson said. “They’ll be evaluating it to potentially incorporate it into the various platforms out there.”
   The system could be used for cordon-and-search operations, convoy protection and detainee operations, according to Fareed Choudhury of ARDEC.
   A burst from the pain beam will make a person move, which buys the operator time.
   “You want to make sure you determine intent, the one thing commanders want to know as far as whether their adversary is a combatant or part of the civilian populace going about their business and not mean harm,” Choudhury said. “The more time you allow [soldiers], the more time they have to determine how to engage these [people] coming toward them.”

6. The caption under the photo says they are horseback riding, that’s not a horse that’s Michelle.

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