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Unless the enemy has atom bombs, you should be alright - electromagnetic pulses are normally generated by nuclear explosions, and flux compression generators which can recreate the effect without a bomb are big apparatuses. Actual hand-held EMP grenades are, at present at least, the stuff of science fiction.

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depends on which state you live in

Best to start with these two Wiki articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_(by_state)

lyndist wrote:Thank

I want to ask a little more

I saw on the web, in the U.S. you can easily buy the heavy weapons (grenade launchers and machine guns), along with strong rounds

I think it would need to have special provisions on the right to own them.

can you explain to me?

Not in the State of NY or New York City.

EMP grenades? Where's this mission taking place, the Goa'uld home planet?

Surprised that civilian ownership of selective-fire/automatic firearms is legal in some states, albeit under very special circumstances only. I thought they were totally prohibited.

Nachtsider wrote:Surprised that civilian ownership of selective-fire/automatic firearms is legal in some states, albeit under very special circumstances only. I thought they were totally prohibited.

Those weapons are regulated under the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. The former regulates them and the latter has banned sales of such weapons manufactured after the enactment date to civilians.

So effectively, you can own a selective-fire/automatic firearm that was manufactured before 1986 provided your state/county/city jurisdiction allows such weapons to be owned by civilians.

Which mine does. I'd have to apply for an ATF tax stamp (I believe, or something to that effect)... this is, of course, assuming that I had a 18 grand or so to burn on what I'd want... which I most EMPHATICALLY do not. *grins*

Back to the EMP grenades thing. Lyndist, why would you be worried about EMP grenades, unless you're a robot? Don't those things affect machines only?

"He's a fucking CYBORG!" 4-Eyes, New Dominion Tank Police

Nachtsider wrote:Back to the EMP grenades thing. Lyndist, why would you be worried about EMP grenades, unless you're a robot? Don't those things affect machines only?

Maybe he has a pacemaker and the EMP Pulse would pulse the device so hard that it would make his heart rip out his chest and run for its momma.

wouldn't a microwave weapon cause similar affects? those do exist, i know that they are supposed to be safe to use on humans without ill effects, but there are reports of people with tattoos becoming ill as result of them being heated and releasing chemicals into the body,so couldn't they cause induction in a cyborgs artificial nerve system ?

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Lyndist, they might as well fire an RPG at your car. Far cheaper and more destructive than an EMP grenade. I won't even bother going into how the technology currently doesn't exist. You don't have to worry.

Awinnell wrote:so couldn't they cause induction in a cyborgs artificial nerve system ?

Such a weapon doesn't seem practical, but I suppose it could work, in theory. Hmmmm.

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lyndist wrote:But cars with an electronic system is affected-and I was sitting in the car

Cars with a Points-Ignition or Magneto system will not be effected; so you will have a bunch of pre-1975 cars and a shit load of scooters romaing the streets.

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Robert Frazer wrote: Actual hand-held EMP grenades are, at present at least, the stuff of science fiction.

Well, so are adolescent cyborgs, so I'd say if you can make it work for your story, go for it.

A lot of the replies to this thread deal with the use of EMP energy as an offensive weapon...but what's more interesting to me is how you would defend against such a thing. For the cyborgs this would obviously be a concern; they're in large part mechanical and unless the engineers foresaw such a threat they could easily be knocked out by an electro-magnetic pulse.

To me at least, weaknesses are far more interesting as a literary device than superpowers...I'd like to see how Section Two would respond to the enemy using an EMP weapon.

I think he started the thread with the intention of honestly asking about the possibility of EMP grenades as a threat to his job.

As for the microwave weapons: still working the kinks out, but effective mass crowd-control weapon... excepting those pesky side-effects... *wry grin*

Officer_Charon wrote:I think he started the thread with the intention of honestly asking about the possibility of EMP grenades as a threat to his job.

In all honesty, given his track record here, I have no idea what is fact and what is fiction anymore.

Well... I am TRYING to give him the benefit of the doubt, hindered by MONSTROUS translation errors.....

..... but that might be like issuing a challenge to duel against the ocean...

I've read around a little about EMP and I've heard it said in a few places that cars aren't actually all that vulnerable to them, because the body and rubber tyres act like a Faraday cage - pulses might be so intense that it overcomes even that resistance, but a modern car does have a measure of protection. Wikipedia does also have a reasonably detailed article on electromagnetic shielding and while I don't know any particulars, there is a military program of EMP shielding for vehicles.

well if you knew beforehand that someone was going to detonate a high altitude nuke you could try covering your car in tinfoil ,or putting it in shipping container,but make sure there are no holes in the coverage as the pulse could get in and bounce around making it worse