"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever I see that our government has a new weapon like this, I wonder how to avoid getting killed by it.
Actually , the railgun is an older idea. They are also called coil guns. Many amateurs have built all kinds of coil guns. Stuff comparable to the small arms of the military. However when it comes to big arms the Navy has two rail weapons systems that surpass all. One is a giant long steel bar. As long as a trailer house. Fired from a ship it will not rock the ship but it will level a base with pure kinetic impact. The other system is similar however at a certain height before impact a warhead explodes sending many smaller bars into everything creating shrapnel and impact damage.