God gun

God gun
 n.β€” Β«Soldiers fire blanks, of course. Team members wear harnesses with sensors that register when they’ve been hit, a sort of heavy-duty version of laser tag. When an explosive device goes off, an impartial observer with a “God gun” eyeballs the radius of the explosion and zaps those impacted.Β» β€”β€œDead-On Competition” BusinessWeek Aug. 21, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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