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Feb. 22nd, 2010 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winneganfakeAll right. This is more than just kind of scary.
Yes, yes, technology is awesome. Yes, guns are cool and such. But still- talk about items I would not want to see available to the general public. Not in the "machinegunsBAD" gun-control nut sense, but more in the sense of "is this really ever fucking necessary to a private citizen?" Because, let's face it- if you can afford hardware like this, you're not likely living/walking around like the example the sales rep gives. Hell even if the damn thing's dirt cheap- you probably wouldn't "go for a walk" anywhere where you'd need that kind of hardware anyways.
And yes, I can definitely see the concealment angle for military/security/etc as an advantage for some situations, or the ease of having a holdout weapon like this that does tuck neatly inside of a vest or anything, but that said, I really don't ever want to see this kind of thing make its way into the private sector.
Yes, yes, technology is awesome. Yes, guns are cool and such. But still- talk about items I would not want to see available to the general public. Not in the "machinegunsBAD" gun-control nut sense, but more in the sense of "is this really ever fucking necessary to a private citizen?" Because, let's face it- if you can afford hardware like this, you're not likely living/walking around like the example the sales rep gives. Hell even if the damn thing's dirt cheap- you probably wouldn't "go for a walk" anywhere where you'd need that kind of hardware anyways.
And yes, I can definitely see the concealment angle for military/security/etc as an advantage for some situations, or the ease of having a holdout weapon like this that does tuck neatly inside of a vest or anything, but that said, I really don't ever want to see this kind of thing make its way into the private sector.
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Date: 2010-02-24 05:21 am (UTC)I think it's an interesting idea, but in it's current form it needs a lot of work. It took the guy far too long to deploy and acquire a sight picture for me to feel like it would be useful in the kinds of situations I'd want a firearm.
For something like this, I'd want it to be spring operated (or similar) so that it could fold out faster. It looked like it was mostly gravity operated in the video (hard to tell, though).
I guess it really depends on if you're trying to find alternative ways of concealing your existing pistol, or if you're trying to make a non-pistol shaped device fire bullets. Each has different design limitations.
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Date: 2010-02-24 06:03 pm (UTC)