Well, I have now read the single dumbest idea (accordingly, it was awarded a patent by the United States Patent & Trademark Office). The basic idea for this invention is to password-protect bullets, so that in order to fire them in a gun, a password must be entered on a keypad attached to the gun that would match a password in the cartridge itself. You can read about the invention here, and you can see the patent awarded here.
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