--Chad Love

Are you a Pennsylvania resident who plans on buying a gun sometime this month? You might want to check with your gun shop before making the drive...

From this story on examiner.com:
The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) announced on Friday, that the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), used by the Pennsylvania State Police, will be taken out of service for three days later this month for a full system replacement. Consequently, this will temporarily restrict the purchase of firearms and negate the ability to obtain criminal history checks.

--Chad Love

This has absolutely nothing to do with hunting, fishing or conservation news, but if you don’t think this is cool, then you don’t have a pulse. And if you are (like I am, and I'm sure many of you) a WWII aviation and history buff, then it's beyond cool. Twenty brand-new, still-in-the-box British Spitfires that were buried in Burma at the end of WWII and promptly forgotten, have been found.

From this story on aviationpros.com:

Twenty Spitfire fighter aircraft buried in Myanmar during World War II are to be dug up and shipped back to Britain, officials say. The planes will be returned to Britain as a result of intervention by British Prime Minister David Cameron, The Daily Telegraph reported. The planes had been buried more than 40 feet beneath the ground for nearly 67 years because of fears of Japanese occupation.

--Chad Love

Well, it had to happen eventually. The zombie-themed shooting market was just too hot, too saturated for it not to come to this: The development of a new zombie gun, only this one doesn't take out zombies. Nope, this gun turns you into a zombie...
 
From this story in the (UK) Daily Mail:
 
Mind-bending ‘psychotronic’ guns that can effectively turn people into zombies have been given the go-ahead by Russian president Vladimir Putin. The futuristic weapons – which will attack the central nervous system of their victims – are being developed by the country’s scientists. They could be used against Russia’s enemies and, perhaps, its own dissidents by the end of the decade. Sources in Moscow say Mr Putin has described the guns, which use electromagnetic radiation like that found in microwave ovens, as ‘entirely new instruments for achieving political and strategic goals’.

--Chad Love

True story: In college, I had a friend who majored in electrical engineering who, as a class project, tried to build a home-made magnetic rail gun out of common household items. All he succeeded in doing was setting his creation on fire and subsequently flunking out of school to become a professional video store clerk. The U.S. Navy seems to be having a bit better luck...
 
From this story in The Washington Post:
 
A super-powerful, futuristic weapon called an “electromagnetic railgun” is being developed at long last for Navy warships, the Associated Press reports.  Right now the gun is just a prototype, being tested at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Northern Virginia. But here’s a sneak peak into five incredible things the railgun will be able to do: Shoot rounds more than 100 miles away. Compare this with 5-inch guns on destroyers, which have a range of about 14 miles.