This Canadian made a shotgun slug out of steel cable that he calls the "war crime"

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Well, Canada isn't all bad.

This madman up north made one of the most insane weapon accessories I've ever seen in my life.

This 12-gauge shotgun slug is made from steel cable and a drill bit and it looks like the most painful and deadly thing in the world.

He calls it the "Canadian war crime":

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All hell breaks loose when we fire this at a 16-inch block of gel. We have a very large temporary wound cavity taking up the first half of the block, and a smaller one taking up the second half. The slug almost made it to the 16-inch mark.

The FBI standard for ballistics gel is 16 inches, because a round that penetrates 14-18 inches into gel like this will penetrate deep enough through living bone and tissue to kill a target without overpenetration (blowing out the other side and hitting something else).

Notice the bent-up strands of wire ejecting out of the entry hole. The slug completely broke up inside that block. There was a large cluster at the very beginning of the block, and another cluster near the end. Many of the cable strands bent up like fishhooks. Others remained somewhat straight and shot through the gel, like little flechettes.

The slug consists of hundreds of these small wire strands.

And it would be an absolute nightmare for a surgeon to try and get that out.

That man just calmly explained how he designed a slug that will insert a wire grill brush into someone's insides at more than 1,000 feet per second.

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Me, thinking about the term "micro scything":

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What an invention.

And yeah, it probably would qualify as a war crime.

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Here's the whole video showing the process and construction because why not πŸ˜‚

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