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A-Gun
Gun shaped like an A | |
Imagine a boxy, V-shaped device about the size of a book with a leather-wrapped handle in the middle. It is held vertically, with the tip facing the guy you want to shoot. Inside the barrel, magnetic currents are generated so, when you fire a shot, the currents allow the shot to slightly bend with the
barrel without touching the sides.
By flicking the switch, the safeties on top are disengaged. Squeezing the trigger fires a shot. Holding it down fires a LOT of continuous shots (about 40).
When you run out of shots, simply put the safeties back on... and flip the gun! The other half has safeties, a trigger and ammo, just like the first side. Both sides use the same tip to fire from, making it 1 gun instead of 2 attached guns.
While firing, you can reload the half not being used, giving you a shorter/non-existent reload stall. Both gun halves cannot be fired at the same time and, regardless of flip, the safety is always on the left side (left-handed versions always have the safety on the right side).
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Is Earth being attacked by a hyperaggressive, noncommunicative alien race that desires to consume human flesh? If not, why the gun idea? |
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anyone who can reload a gun while shooting it is probably on the set of a movie. really need a picture of this crazy-ass gun, [Dark Arizona]. |
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"While firing, you can reload the half not being used" - multi-tasking on the battlefield - I love it! |
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While you're at it, perhaps you could have an option to turn the safeties off and fire the gun backwards as well as forwards at the same time, thus killing both sets of baddies at the same time, just like the movies? |
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My take on such weaponry has always been that if I'm in a situation where I need more than two magazines, I'm doing something wrong in my lifestyle. |
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The aliens are non noncommunicative, but mostly they communicate using pleas for help and offers of gifts to get people closer to them. Then they eat the flesh. For this reason BUNGCO has been working on an asterix gun (code name *gun) , which is similar to the proposed A gun, except you can rotate and shoot five times before needing to reload. |
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Bungco will not be able to compete with our newest offering. The OCTOGUN. |
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I give you the dodecagun. Held around the waist similar to a hula hoop, the projectiles burst forth tangentially. |
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And from our support arms line, may I present the "Koosh Kannon" twenty separate 155mm guns extending out from a central hub (which contains the seat for the gunner/loader) |
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([Textickles], also minimizes your waist-line!) |
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A-gun: A-team. anyone else seeing this connection? i pity the foo'. |
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Which part of a gun is the 'tip'? |
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That's a very good question. Also, there's a very real trajectory problem here. |
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//with the tip facing the guy you want to shoot.// |
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A gun shaped like a perfectly symmetrical A (it would have to be symmetrical to be able to be fired from either orientation like the post suggests) means that, if you hold the weapon with the apex of the A pointed at the enemy, the angle of the barrel will send the bullets at a 45 degree angle either into the ground or into the air. How do you redirect the bullet to go straight? |
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//A-gun: A-team. anyone else seeing this connection?// |
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Yeah, me too. It also explains 21's observation - this gun must be designed to miss the baddies so no one gets killed (apart from the POW episode when they mistakenly used L-guns). |
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//How do you redirect the bullet to go
straight?// [21 Quest] - smoke and
mirrors of course. |
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Aiming? With eighty rounds in the clip? What's the point? |
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With a good machine gun, at least the first rounds usually hit until continuing recoil starts fouling up successive shots. |
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Ah, this is fun. The people here don't like weapons, (shadow phoenix.) |
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On the contrary, monk, I find a *good* weapon design to be quite fascinating. That's just not what I see here. |
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Maybe monkette or one of the monklings got a hold of the computer? |
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/How do you redirect the bullet to go straight?/ |
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You could put some english on it, so it hooked back into your target. |
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[monk], the bullets don't have to be lethal. Just strong enough to knock out the aliens stealing all our tax money (apparently, the government isn't doing it). |
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[21 Quest], the non-lethal bullets don't fire on a straight tunnel. The path is slightly bent and the magnetic currents in the barrel allow the shot to accelerate like an accelerating rollercoaster on the first dip. This incorporates a form of miniature railgun technology. |
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[k_sra], trust me, I really wanted to put up a pic at the beginning, but my scanner is broken. I will put a scan & link when I can. |
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My mistake, good halfbakers. And I'll act like a newbie if I damned well please. |
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// This incorporates railgun technology// |
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To the best of my knowledge, railgun technology isn't man-portable. It's much larger. Any way you spin it, this sounds like bad science to me, sorry mate. |
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//This incorporates railgun technology// |
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They should add this gun to Unreal, the computer game. |
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Sorry, I meant a FORM of railgun technology! I have fixed that. It just borrows the bit involving electric currents in a magnetic field. Yes, [maklar], a V is an A without the middle bit! Took you long enough! Sorry, a little crazy today. Yeah, I noticed the A-Team reference, but they don't need any. |
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So your //Gun shaped like an A// is //V-shaped// ? |
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//Sorry, I meant a FORM of railgun technology! I have fixed that. It just borrows the bit involving electric currents in a magnetic field.// Is there any other technology involved in a railgun? Glad to hear you've fixed it anyway. |
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How is this better than duct-taping M16s together? |
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A man portable railgun that can fire forty shots without rail replacement? Ok, this just leapt from fantasy to magic. I stand by my bone. |
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//My take on such weaponry has always been that if I'm in a situation where I need more than two magazines, I'm doing something wrong in my lifestyle.// |
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