WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: Two Men Arrested For Trying To Build An X-Ray Gun.

But there are a lot of problems with this story. First, is an X-ray gun illegal? Second, the builder was reputedly a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer who wanted to help Israel “kill its enemies.” Er, dude, the Klan’s supposed to be anti-semitic. You’re doing it wrong. Third, the article conflates experimental “pain ray” devices — which use microwaves — with X-rays. Microwaves are non-ionizing radiation, generating pain by heating the skin. That’s a totally different mechanism, not just a question of dosage, as the rather sloppy article implies.