http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/26/1079939827815.html

Lethal weapon

By Jordan Baker
March 26, 2004 - 11:35AM

James Bond would be impressed.

A hand gun that speaks several languages, broadcasts the conversation to the police, fires lethal and non-lethal bullets and is activated only by the grip of the registered owner.

The Guinness Book of Records has declared the gun, officially known as a Variable lethality enforcement (Vle) weapon, the world's most intelligent firearm.

It has also named the Vle's big brother, which is 36 times its size and has a potential firing rate of one million rounds a minute, as the world's fastest.

Both are based on revolutionary ballistics technology invented by Australian Mike O'Dwyer, a self-taught physicist from a dusty Queensland outback town near Longreach.

The breakthrough uses electronics rather than mechanics; instead of moving parts and heavy magazines, it involves a bullet-stacked cylinder fired by electric impulse.

A solo cylinder can be used as a pistol, while a few dozen can be used together to create a ballistic system capable of firing a hailstorm - or metal storm - of bullets in seconds.

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(Much more at site, including a description of the weapon's networked audio features)

(Thanks to JeremyT!)