Last time I heard “game changer” in the gun biz was this little fly by night company from Austria called Glock. Don’t quite recall what happened to them though. 🙂
Perhaps the marketing execs at those gun companies are playing a different game than you.
I’d also check a current version of the rule book of whatever game they are playing, as changing the game generally involves violating, discarding or amending the existing rules.
There are plenty of ways to change the game: cheat, use better equipment, have the equivalent of Michael Jordan on your team, use new plays, or even play an entirely different game than everyone else.
I still want my personal flying car, a phaser and a magic wand. Change the game, indeed.
The automobile, refrigeration, antibiotics, canning, the atomic bomb, satellites and the internet were certainly game changers, but the firearm in its current functionality has been around for a very long time. The metal cartridge might be called a game changer, and the repeating arm that followed almost immediately, then the machinegun. But that was over a hundred years ago. Maybe the SturmGevehr was a game changer, but only by a little bit since we already had the Garand, Thompson, M3 the BAR and several other examples of semiauto and auto rifles and subguns from other countries. Night vision was fairly significant.
The most significant game changer of our time though is our cultural rot.
July 29th, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Has it been on Sons of Guns?
July 29th, 2013 at 9:35 pm
I’m hoping it’s an accurate AK.
July 29th, 2013 at 10:18 pm
Last time I heard “game changer” in the gun biz was this little fly by night company from Austria called Glock. Don’t quite recall what happened to them though. 🙂
July 30th, 2013 at 10:46 am
Perhaps the marketing execs at those gun companies are playing a different game than you.
I’d also check a current version of the rule book of whatever game they are playing, as changing the game generally involves violating, discarding or amending the existing rules.
There are plenty of ways to change the game: cheat, use better equipment, have the equivalent of Michael Jordan on your team, use new plays, or even play an entirely different game than everyone else.
I still want my personal flying car, a phaser and a magic wand. Change the game, indeed.
July 30th, 2013 at 10:48 am
Almost forgot: CALVINBALL!
July 30th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
The automobile, refrigeration, antibiotics, canning, the atomic bomb, satellites and the internet were certainly game changers, but the firearm in its current functionality has been around for a very long time. The metal cartridge might be called a game changer, and the repeating arm that followed almost immediately, then the machinegun. But that was over a hundred years ago. Maybe the SturmGevehr was a game changer, but only by a little bit since we already had the Garand, Thompson, M3 the BAR and several other examples of semiauto and auto rifles and subguns from other countries. Night vision was fairly significant.
The most significant game changer of our time though is our cultural rot.
July 30th, 2013 at 4:41 pm
3D printing of guns is the only game changer recently, but that’s of marginal utility at best.