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Liquid Table by Mathieu Lehanneur

Based on his Liquid Marble art installation the designer Mathieu Lehanneur imagined a coffee table called Liquid Table, but he switched the marble for Aluminum. The shiny, silver surface was created by using the same 3D modeling software of movie special effects, as he did with his marble installation. The table is part of the “Spring” exhibition at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London, joining other fascinating design objects as the String chandelier.

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Desk 02 by Artifox

Springfield Armory Full Rail TRP customized by Benchmark Precision.

Police in Europe are now saying that gun banning has failed them. Terrorists have managed to get a hold of high powered, black market assault rifles, in spite of the fact that these are virtually impossible to get through legal means in most European nations.

As well, many law enforcement agencies are armed with little or nothing, and finding out quickly that criminals do not obey gun laws, they simply buy illegal arms from the robust black market.

In Europe it is just as easy to get weapons on the black market as it is to walk into a gun store in the United States. In many cases, the prices you pay on the black market are considerably less expensive than in nations where the same arms can be purchased through legal avenues.

Europol chief of staff Brian Donald recently said that there were two “large seizures” of firearms, mostly “assault weapons”, in the past two weeks alone. None of these were stolen from the gun stores or the homes of law abiding citizens. Yet in spite of the laws against them, it has been relatively easy to easy to get your hands on pretty much anything you want – even easier than in the United States for many select fire, fully automatic weapons.