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Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today! http://apple.co/1DWdc9d In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we've heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes. The PGF's closed-loop system is based off jetfighter lock and launch technology, something TrackingPoint CEO Jason Schauble says not only marks the next great paradigm shift in the evolution of firearms—it helps users make ethical kill shots too. But critics of the PGF platform, no doubt part and parcel of a rising tide of intelligent killer apps, say the gun, or rather its proprietary scope, marks the dawn of "skill-free killing". In LONG SHOT Motherboard visits West Texas, the frontline of smart weapons. We get a backcountry crash course through the PGF, hear about TrackingPoint's plans to apply its system to a veritable suite of advanced weaponry, all built on custom software that promises to have novice shots like us to killing at 1,000 yards—and in the near future, potentially 3,000 yards—with single-shot accuracy, and try to untangle an increasingly knotty firearms debate in light of the so-called gamification of killing and, sadly, yet another mass shooting. Has killing become too easy? Read more on MOTHERBOARD here: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/long-shot-inside-the-scope-of-smart-weapons Follow MOTHERBOARD Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/motherboardtv Twitter: http://twitter.com/motherboard
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Fucking aimbot hackers mate. Has science gone too far?
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This is fucking amazing
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This is fucking amazing
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I so sick of political correctness and the audacity of the person that tries to inflect it upon society. 🤖
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AIMBOT - NOW AVAILABLE IN REAL LIFE!!!
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Nope. You can use any excuse to justify a good reason but, i want to see how long it will take to the first killing spree happen using this device to bring down many children at their schools...or some hundreds of people in a whatever street parade...you'll never learn the lesson...what a pity.
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Smartpistol anyone?
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this is what we call "Aim-Bot"
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"Has killing become to easy"
That's what chlorine gas is for. you want to kill one thing but leave everything else unharmed? that's what somthing like this is for. -
fake gun
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I've Got You In My Sights!
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modern hunting is pretty much the faggiest sport ever.
wow you can kill an animal with a gun, that must take so much skill, I mean aiming at it AND having to pull a trigger, you are all that is man.
bow hunting or GTFO -
yea but can it shoot moving targets? pretty sure it can't.
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practically when action bind cheese decade reporter ceremony repeatedly.
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hackers made this aimbot,perma ban. HACKER NUUUUUB KICK HIM F11!!
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stop kills animals
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It needs a way to input into the scope software wind speed and direction at different ranges. The software/scope does it at the point of fire but not down wind. Adding this to the software would help hitting the target at 500-1000 yard + ranges.
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@18:38 The kind of face you pull when you're squirming inside because you realize you're a bullshitting scumbag. I hope. I also hope this guy is tormented every night by visitations from all the animals - at this point, srew the humans - that ever got shot by a gun-toting fuck-wit. And may every one of them be kept awake for eternity by the sound of a stampede echoing from inside their empty skull.
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Good... so now all we need it the gun that shoots its owner and we'll be all set.
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ASSHOLES. Stop killing animals for fun.