The Market and Guns
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December 31st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
In a stifling regulatory and liability environment like ours, there’s just not enough incentive to try something different – either as a developer/manufacturer, or as an end user.
December 31st, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Well, how many different and desireable ways can you feed metalic carts from a magazine, pop the primers and fire the bullets through a tube? We have a staggering number of ways of doing that right now. Until there’s some paradigm change… what do you want that you don’t have available, either as a commercial model or as a custom build? Self-guided bullets? How much you want to pay for those? Self-adjusting, range-finding optics– got ’em now. Whadda ya want, Man?
There is the idea of the bullet-only feeding device, with a separate fuel supply and no case, but I’ve come full circle thinking about that. Self contained, metalic cartridges are a pretty good idea. Caseless, but still self contained ammo has been tried and abandoned also. What, you want a missle launcher? Got those already too. How about a death ray? We can dispense with the kinetic round, but oh– some surfaces reflect EM energy, or the vapor cloud starts to absorb your death ray, while they’re still vulnerable to a good old fashoned bullet…
I dunno. I don’t want to sound like the dumbass who said, some 100 years ago, that since everything that could be invented already had been invented, it was time to close the patent office.
So what are y’all’s big ideas for some new type of hand-held weapon that improves materially upon existing systems? That’s a tall question, being as the “modern” firearm is well over 100 years old.
January 1st, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Why bother to innovate in America, when everything you make is verboten to the little people?
Readers of Absolved will be introduced to a bolt-action pistol, which is almost entirely a sound suppressor. Click-hiss is all the noise it makes. . . plink in your back yard without disturbing the neighbors. After paying a $200 tax, plus $50 to transfer it to a dealer, and passing two background checks. Also you will read of a pump-action machine pistol, also suppressed, also super-illegal.
I invented a new type of rifle mechanism and didn’t bother to patent it, because it’s a hassle to get a patent, hassle to get permission to make it, hassle to sell it, etc., all because of .gov regulation. Thanks Congress!