The Pentagon is buying lightning guns.

Check out this freaky article entitled Xtreme Defense from yesterday's Washington Post. Here's an excerpt...

"Back in his lab in Anderson, Ind., [XADS President] Bitar has a large apparatus -- 11 feet high -- that shoots sparks about 16 feet. It's too large and cumbersome to be a portable weapon; he thinks it could be used for securing U.S. embassies. He also produces smaller units -- dubbed "StunStrike" -- that he says shoot four-foot bolts of lightning. His prototype for a rifle weighs about 25 pounds and can shoot electricity about 12 feet, he says. Gibbs, the Marine Corps official who first funded Bitar, has a fondness for edgy ideas. A chemical engineer and longtime proponent of nonlethal weaponry, Gibbs funds other offbeat projects, such as Medusa, an attempt to develop a weapon that uses low-power microwaves -- believed to cause an audible buzzing in subjects' heads -- to make people think God is speaking to them."