Military Weapons

[Nobby-W]

Proving whether a specific laser weapon caused a wound isn't possible, at least not in any legally robust matter.

Just run a laseronics ergon test.

In an episode of the old BSG they did just that fired the gun and compared the energy discharge to the would on a dead body.totally sci-fi/space opera technobabble cheese but it was a fun episode to watch.

So, if I were to get 10 MK IX laser carbines and run the test, then ask the prosecution's expert witness to select the one that actually caused the wound, what is the probability that he would select the murder weapon, as opposed to one of the others?

The underlying premise is that you can't easily identify the specific weapon that makes the wound, to the point that it's hard or impossible to get it admitted as evidence without getting discredited by a good defence lawyer. In that case, if they get popular with the mob or gangs then it's an easy sell to get them banned by regulators. That's my suggestion for the underlying reason that they might be widely banned.

 

[Condottiere]

Internal chip records the details of every shot.

They did it in Star wars Seven.

 

[AndrewW]

The underlying premise is that you can't easily identify the specific weapon that makes the wound, to the point that it's hard or impossible to get it admitted as evidence without getting discredited by a good defence lawyer. In that case, if they get popular with the mob or gangs then it's an easy sell to get them banned by regulators. That's my suggestion for the underlying reason that they might be widely banned.

The laseronics ergon test is conclusive according to Dr Wilker. It measures the exact amount of energy absorbed into the body.

 

[Nobby-W]

The underlying premise is that you can't easily identify the specific weapon that makes the wound, to the point that it's hard or impossible to get it admitted as evidence without getting discredited by a good defence lawyer. In that case, if they get popular with the mob or gangs then it's an easy sell to get them banned by regulators. That's my suggestion for the underlying reason that they might be widely banned.

The laseronics ergon test is conclusive according to Dr Wilker. It measures the exact amount of energy absorbed into the body.

However, we have had the ergon test evaluated by two sets of independent expert witnesses. The evaluation of the test by Grissom, Grissom and Badgerthorpe was particularly scathing.

When tested independently and presented with 10 sets of sample wounds from 10 different Mk IX laser carbines including that belonging to my client, Dr. Wilkner's test identified the wrong wound on 6 out of the 10 occasions on the first test, and 7 out of 10 occasions on the second test. This makes his claims about the accuracy of the Ergon test suspect at best, and quack pseudoscience at worst. My paralegal Bwappitywob will be entering a motion to have the ergon test exhibit excluded from the evidence.

 

[Condottiere]

We'll have to take photographs, and watch what develops.