Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared at outlets like Pacific Standard, VICE, National Geographic, the Paris Review Daily, and Real Life magazine. Her RTs ...

A railgun seems like something that only top-secret ... is that the future of guns is starting to look a lot like science fiction in real life.

Arnie packing railgun rifles in the 1996 movie Eraser. The real-life version may be made in China. Coilguns and railguns achieve the same thing via slightly different mechanisms. A railgun has two ...