Interesting thought about firearms

[brotherbill3]

It will be a more elegant time...

no clumsy blasters.

+1 ... May the force be with you padawan ...

wait ... I HAVE my blaster pistol yet (circa 1980 ...)

 

[BulkAmmo]

The limiting factor for handheld versions of either is simply energy storage. Both take an incredible amount of electrical energy that must be released in a very short amount of time. That, and you might want more than one shot. Once battery/capacitor technology catches up, it should be pretty easy to package something in a rifle-type form factor.

Wasn't there a post on here a while back of a kid building a Gauss Gun at home?

It's not too hard to build a crude rail gun. There's a bunch of info on youtube about it.

Apparently the fix for the energy storage is supposed to be nano tube batteries. Kaku talked about it on a show I caught one night. Rail guns are going to be the easiest to shrink. The hard part is making barrels and ammo that can withstand the heat. Making the air combust is pretty darn hot.

Sadly I don't think I'll live long enough to see them.
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[squirrelhntr]

+1 ... May the force be with you padawan ...

wait ... I HAVE my blaster pistol yet (circa 1980 ...)

i wanna light sabre he_ _ ya

 

[singlestacksig]

you will see rail guns on large naval ships before anything else.. the power out put from the nuke reactor on a big ship can make enough juice to fire those guns now..
they just have to get the heat problem solved...