If you’re a mil-tech geek, if you’re probably heard of Jerry Baber, the legendary gun-maker from Piney Flats, Tennessee. He’s the inventor of the fully automatic shotgun, and of a fleet of deadly little robots that can carry that weapon into battle. Current TV’s Vanguard takes a trip to Baber’s back-woods log cabin for its episode on “Remote Control War,” which airs Wednesday. Here’s a preview:
Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at WIRED and a contributing writer for The New York Times’ opinion section.
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