This vacuum pressure cannon is a design unlike any we’ve seen before. At first look it seems to have the components you see in a potato gun. But those use a combustion process to launch the ...

In 2008, police in Wisconsin seized a potato gun that was allegedly being used to shoot drugs over the fence at the McCormick Correctional Institution in Portage.

The ballistics of humble potato is a time-honoured research topic for everyone who likes things that go bang. The focus of such work is usually on the launcher itself, with the projectiles being ...

Under state law, potato guns that use combustion (instead of compressed air) to launch the projectile are “firearms,” and one with a bore of over 0.5 inches is a destructive device.

CANADA - Two Canadians were arrested after police suspected the pair of loading drugs into a potato gun cannon and launching them into a correctional facility, authorities said. The 18-year-old ...

Reporting on events occurring between April 19 and April 25, the Olmsted Falls police blotter.

A potato cannon, popular in at-home ballistics testing, is cheap. A new testing device developed by the Navy—a super-sized version of the spud gun—provides a low-cost alternative by simply ...

Andrew Franz, in polo T-shirt, receives the Milken Educator Award for his work with the “spud launcher” students at Hamlin Park School 74 on Monday. (Stephen T. Watson/Buffalo ...

Under state law, potato guns that use combustion (instead of compressed air) to launch the projectile are “firearms,” and one with a bore of over 0.5 inches is a destructive device.