Guns With No Moving Parts (ULTIMATE FIREPOWER)

Popular Mechanics ^ | Nov. 2, 2001 | SCOTT GOURLEY

[TERMINATTOR]

I could really improve my score at Bin Laden Liquors with one of these.

[TERMINATTOR]

Bang_List.

[Highest Authority]

Two questions: Aren't guns banned in Australia? And, will this 36 tube piece fit under my sport jacket?

[wysiwyg]

I read this article when it was first posted a few weeks ago. It still sounds like a silly idea.

[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.

[Abundy]

Sport jacket? How soon will the aftermarket have mounting brackets for my Jeep?

[dglang]

for further info

An Australian site, currently very slow downloading.

[waxhaw]

I think I'll stick with my Browning Hi-Power and Walther PPKs. Both are very dependable and very accurate.

[Dataman]

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.

[xm177e2]

Guns With No Moving Parts

Somebody designed a gun especially for women? </kidding>

[xm177e2]

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)

[Dataman]

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.

[wysiwyg]

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.

[Unbeliever]

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.

[fightu4it]

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.

[Harley in Toronto]

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.

[CWRWinger]

The technology is worth looking at. All it needs is a good application and strategy to use it.

[stlrocket]

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

[Fixit]

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!