THE TRAGIC SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS IN NEWTOWN, Connecticut, has horrified and refocused the nation on the burden of gun violence. Each year in the United States, more than 30 000 individuals are killed by guns' (homicides, suicides, and unintentional fatalities)—85 deaths per day plus many hundreds of nonfatal injuries. Gun homicide alone causes 11000 deaths each year,' more than all US troops k...

A two-stage 500 kV 200-A ferroelectric electron gun has been designed, fabricated, tested, and used in a high power microwave amplifier experiment. We report on the operational characteristics of the gun including measurements of the beam dynamics. The optimum conditions for application of the trigger and its timing are also reported. Faraday cup measurement shows that the beam radius is 4.1 mm...

The development of gun propellants from 2010 to 2016 has been a broad endeavor. Researchers worldwide have examined every facet of energetic materials involved with gun propulsion in efforts to improve both safety and performance. They have looked at individual molecules to maximize energy content, as well as revisiting past molecules and improving upon their original properties. A great deal o...

BACKGROUND Penetrating nail-gun injuries to the head are rare, however, the incidence has been gradually rising over the last decade. While there is a large volume of case reports in the literature, there are only a few incidences of cerebrovascular injury. We present a case of a patient with a nail-gun injury to the brain, which compromised the cerebral vasculature. In this article, we present...