Long distance shooting!

[wterrell]

The potential of this activity alarms me!

http://www.live-shot.com/

[Ron Smith]

Wes, I agree. Cyber sniping? What a wonderful concept.

Ron

[wterrell]

or murder from Argentina? or Botswana?

I believe that this type of thing needs to outlawed.

[John Sabato]

Wes, while I don't disagree with you that this type of remote robotic control via the internet could be used for evil purposes... outlawing it would have about as much effect as outlawing cars because some cars have been used to run some people over...

There simply wouldn't be any way to enforce it.

Controling the actions of a robotic device via the internet? The internet isn't even necessary... it is just convenient. This same service could just as easily be done via direct dial-in to the location via cell phone modem while driving.

What I don't understand is why they would bother using a device like a real firearm that would have to be serviced, loaded and cleaned, when the whole thing could be realistically simulated with computers...

As far as the remote hunting thing goes... I'll bet a simulation that was so real you wouldn't be able to tell that it wasn't real over the internet using a browser... and the "game" meat they send you could be from roadkills (with apologies to Glenn in Hunstville) for all the user would know...

I don't think this will be more than a passing fad... I can't see it becoming a profitable venture for very long.

Just my

[Roadkill]

This to me is just an adaptation of the predator drones,they launch and fly them in diaperheadland but are controlled and the weapons activated from Florida. If they would start selling hunts for terrorists I'd participate.

rk

[George Anderson]

I'll empty a glass on Mr Roadkill's sentiments.

The real problem with this sort of inventiveness is that it will soon be scooped-up by the MEDIA/Liberal Establishment and fashioned into a newspaper article or four second TV shot that will reenforce the stereotype of gun owners and hunters as potentially dangerous people.

The great "unwashed" still listen to Gunga-Dan Rather and the other two clowns every night. That same "unwashed" has long since forgotten about their granddad's slogging across the Phillipines, Europe or Korea. We must police ourselves to a certain extent when we are in the open.

[jamese]

I agree with John, I don't think this will last long.
Lets face it, the enjoyment we get from the shooting range is alot more the just the challenge of hitting a target better than the next guy.

As I recall there was a movie a few years ago where the bad guy used a remote mounted rifle in the back of a van to Kill a politician. He used a cell phone as the conection to manipulate the amiming of the device.
Maybe someone will remember the name of the movie

Jim

[Tomathvl]

Jim
I think that maybe "The Jackal"
Tom

[Tomathvl]

Funny that I'm watching the 5:30 news and just after sending the previous message the local news carried the story about the Live-Shot website and showed video of shooting at the target. The news parroted what George Anderson said. They made the point that it wasn't illegal yet.
That movie may have been "The Day of the Jackal"
with Bruce Willis
Tom

[John Sabato]

I can confirm on the movie being the Jackal... with Bruce Willis.

He has the gun, a large caliber aircraft type cannon and its associated control robotics fashioned by some computer nerd, who is then killed for his trouble rather than paid by being the first practice target...