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Guns With No Moving Parts (ULTIMATE FIREPOWER)
Popular Mechanics ^
| Nov. 2, 2001
| SCOTT GOURLEY
Posted on 11/03/2001 12:54:05 AM PST by TERMINATTOR
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To: *bang_list
Bang_List.
To: TERMINATTOR
Two questions: Aren't guns banned in Australia? And, will this 36 tube piece fit under my sport jacket?
To: TERMINATTOR
I read this article when it was first posted a few weeks ago. It still sounds like a silly idea.
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posted on
11/03/2001 3:01:13 AM PST
by
wysiwyg
To: TERMINATTOR
Seems to me if it ever jammed there wouldn't be much left of the operator. A million projectile pile up could get ugly.
To: Highest Authority
Sport jacket? How soon will the aftermarket have mounting brackets for my Jeep?
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posted on
11/03/2001 3:30:34 AM PST
by
Abundy
To: TERMINATTOR
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posted on
11/03/2001 3:36:02 AM PST
by
dglang
To: TERMINATTOR
I think I'll stick with my Browning Hi-Power and Walther PPKs. Both are very dependable and very accurate.
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posted on
11/03/2001 3:36:09 AM PST
by
waxhaw
To: TERMINATTOR
a million-plus rounds per minute. At .25 per round that is $25,000 per minute. Then there's loading time. At one round per second it would take 11.6 24-hour days to load that million rounds. Some of those guns have 64 barrels, each one holding 15 rounds. That's 960 rounds in a fraction of a second. A .45 with a hollow point will stop a guy just as surely as 960 rounds with the main difference being that the cops will still be able to identify the body.
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posted on
11/03/2001 3:48:51 AM PST
by
Dataman
To: TERMINATTOR
Guns With No Moving PartsSomebody designed a gun especially for women? </kidding>
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posted on
11/03/2001 3:50:28 AM PST
by
xm177e2
To: Dataman
Then there's loading time. At one round per second it would take 11.6 24-hour days to load that million rounds.I don't think they load the bullets one at a time, I think they have them already packaged in cylinders, they just drop them in the barrel. And they don't fire for a full minute straight! You couldn't fit that many bullets in the barrel! (remember, with this type of gun, all of the bullets are in the barrel until they are fired)
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posted on
11/03/2001 3:52:30 AM PST
by
xm177e2
To: xm177e2
That's correct. Neither can the weapons fire a million rounds per minute. As long as they were boasting about the rounds per minute (a meaningless figure with this type of weapon) I thought I'd add to the absurdity. I believe it was TLC that had a program on the history of machine guns which ended with the electronic weapon. It's nearly as useless as a single-shot if it fires all of its rounds at once. That is what the million+ rpm figure boasting is about. We'll never see that because consumers will never get anything that fires faster than the finger can pull the trigger.
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posted on
11/03/2001 4:02:40 AM PST
by
Dataman
To: MissAmericanPie
Seems to me if it ever jammed there wouldn't be much left of the operator. A million projectile pile up could get ugly.On a different note, what if the battery goes flat? I'll stick to mechanical guns, thank you.
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11/03/2001 5:14:35 AM PST
by
wysiwyg
To: TERMINATTOR
This thing has been around a couple of years, the fact that you can't reload the damned thing doesn't seem to connect with people.
To: TERMINATTOR
45,000 rounds a minute?
Now all they have to come up with is a new material for a barrel that would withstand that kind of heat.
They are also giving up accuracy with a smooth bore weapon.
To: fightu4it
The main point of this is not so much the firepower, its the idea of having electronic guns that are keyed to fingerprinted owners. In short, this is part of the stealth gun control lobby.
To: Unbeliever
The technology is worth looking at. All it needs is a good application and strategy to use it.
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To: one_particular_harbour
If you would like to see and read about the H&K Super Sniper Rifle - note the computer key pad on top:
Rifle & Ammo
Rifle details
To: Dataman
Good point!
The effect of this weapon is much more like a shotgun, it would seem, then a rifle. I suppose using the same method you could claim that a 10 guage shotgun shell loaded with small shot fires "millions" of proectiles per minute, but only for 1/100 of a second at a time!
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posted on
11/05/2001 7:03:00 PM PST
by
Fixit
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