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Originally Posted by kato13
I was thinking a little more about "Legal" project weapons.
Through the use of advanced tech would it be possible to simply be so far ahead of the law that nothing has been banned yet.
If the project uses Gauss weapons, lasers and particle beams could those be pre significant regulations?
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It would depend a lot on the circumstances and timing. Any significant new weapon technology, publicly acknowledged, would only be legal for as long as it took for regulations and/or legislation to be drawn up. Railguns and coilguns are currently legal mostly because no one is making any practical weapons outside the military - if Smith and Wesson rolled out a handheld (or even vehicular) railgun, it would be illegal for private ownership within months at the outside.