Variable lethality enforcement…the new personal weapons system [The Age]

by limbic on March 30, 2004

Metal Storm (as in metal hailstorm) have developed “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 law-enforcement gun can tell the police station when an officer has drawn his weapon, where he is and how many rounds are fired…can tell both the user and the bad guy what it’s doing - it can say I’m on stun or I’m on lethal, and it can speak in different languages…If (the officer is) in an incident, he can switch the audio on so that the people at the station or the squads on the way to back him up can hear what’s going on.” MORE

See also “ULTIMATE FIREPOWER” from Popular Mechanics

Sound and looks like something out of Drudge Dredd, but the future is now.