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"Actually it doesn't, it just means you won't be able to conceal your firearm from those with the proper equipment. Of course that would be true with a non-metallic gun as well. Any gun is bound to be fairly dense, and certain types of x-rays (and other stuff) should be able to see it. Heck the x-ray machine at the House office building saw a plastic toy gun...the operator didn't see it right away, but the machine did."

That was my point in an earlier comment about current imaging technology. It's so good that their embarrassed about intimate anatomy being revealed.

Did you forget my question about positrons and other sub-atomic particles? I was referring to that imaging technology when I made the comment about anti-matter. Remember the name of these House and Senate bills re-authorzing the law against "Undetectable Firearms", IIRC. I posted a copy of the House bill in an earlier comment.

By using the term "moot" I was referring to the attitude of the security freaks and the anti-gun nuts towards guns. I prefer Vermont's attitude.

BTW, I remembered that electrons and positrons annihilate each other. Isn't that technology used in particle accelerators to generate transient sub-atomic particles, quarks, muons, pions, leptons, etc.? I haven't kept up that branch of physics.

BTW, I remembered that electrons and positrons annihilate each other. Isn't that technology used in particle accelerators to generate transient sub-atomic particles, quarks, muons, pions, leptons, etc.? I haven't kept up that branch of physics.

Sometimes, but usually it's easier to just jack up the energy of "normal" particles. But it is done.

During a seminar for laymen (that would be me) interested in the now cancelled Super Conducting Super Collider, the head of the Physics department at SMU said that using "atom smashers" to study subatomic particles was sort of like smashing Chevies together to study the properties of the semi-conductors in the radios and other electronics in the cars. Seems like the best thing to do with a Chevy anyway. :)