What does Jow Forums think firearms will look like in 30 years?
What does Jow Forums think firearms will look like in 30 years?
Ayden Perez
Jaxon Carter
Identical to how they look now, give or take a few new designs that are unlikely to take off in any big way.
Guns have been a very mature technology for many decades, there's just not much room for improvement.
Blake Gonzalez
They'll be illegal for citizens to own
Bentley Reyes
For militaries and police? Similar to now with better optical technology and manufacturing
For civilians? Pic related
Evan Russell
Like flashlights with pistol grips. Really though, high grade lasers are just super long range flame throwers
Jonathan Baker
Depends if there's a break through in ammunition or not. If we're still using metallic cartridges, they'll look a lot like they do now, but with better optics and aiming devices, as that's where all the innovation is. Maybe they'll be using different materials for certain parts, but ergonomically and mechanically, we've peaked for small arms. Everything is an AK, AR15, AR18, or a derivative thereof.
Hell, even if we do have breakthroughs in ammo, there's an argument to make that the AR is the peak of ergonomic design for guns, and therefore guns will look staggeringly similar to that.
Luke Robinson
Like firearms today, but with even more plastic.
Alexander Green
You know I'd say you're retarded but with how cowardly U.S. gun owners are I'm starting to believe you.
Here in Russia if someone wants to take away my guns I can either fucking move or shoot them dead.
Ryder Gutierrez
>Here in Russia if someone wants to take away my guns I can either fucking move or shoot them dead
Okay Ivan, well you're not even allowed to own semi-auto shotguns let alone anything that Americans can get their hands on.
Grayson Russell
>Here in Russia
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jaxon Morgan
>you're not even allowed
Law Enforcement is generally lax, and if he lives out in the Russian boonies, he has months to years to hide the bodies
Alexander Cox
>Law Enforcement is generally lax, and if he lives out in the Russian boonies, he has months to years to hide the bodies
Also applicable to the vast majority of Americans and American boonies.
Wyatt Watson
Probably similar, although we'll probably see more caseless weapon systems put into service because of the pretty massive benefits
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Dylan Allen
rusted and faintly glowing with radiation
Nathaniel Parker
This, caseless and telescoped ammo are going to be big in the coming decades.
Parker Sanchez
the meme pops out of your smart phone and actually murders you when you open the image on any website or chatroom or text message or email
Adam Jackson
Not really.
Ryder Ward
>Rural cops
>Lax
Maybe if you're in Kansas
Eli Kelly
Three aesthetic options
>excessive greebles
>excessive curvy plastic
>excessive wood furniture
and then mountains of 3D printer garbage
Ayden Brooks
basilisk hacks are for TITANs and anarkiddos
>Jove stronk
Connor Evans
I dont think ceaseless will ever be viable. Exposed propelant is a dumb idea. Polymer CT ammo is the future
Alexander Wilson
nothing for civilians if politics are still progressing and haven't crashed, 95% of boomers and 90% of other generations of gun owners will simply turn them in like Australia did
Joshua King
>650,135 missing people in 2017.
>Even if just a third of those people are actually dead, that's still 216, 711.
Lord knows how many of those are done by serial killers, one time murders with bodies disposed of, or dumbasses who got lost in the woods. Point is, the US is a big country, and there are places where no one will hear you scream.
Alexander Morris
>cheese grater with the FCG blocking the bottom
yikes.
Jackson Reyes
skinwalkers and wendigos proly get a few of them
Alexander Bennett
This but with lasers
Daniel Parker
Caseless ammo, eco friendly ammo, NFA repealed. Early prototype direct energy weapons.
Ethan Fisher
>Weird receiver + commiefornia compliant stock and grip + hideous foregrip = futuristic
kys.
Eli Price
You can still put, like, sling loops and shit there? Thus keeping the sides free for grating cheese.
Grayson Adams
That is in no way california compliant. You dumbfuck.
Owen Evans
>he thinks Russian gun laws are better than America gun laws
Enjoy your Lancaster rifling lol
Jayden King
>the AR is the peak of ergonomic design for guns
Charging handle in your face, in your faaaace, have to come off target to charge it. Mag release button is directly where you should index your trigger finger when not shooting. Not ambidextrous. Also shits where it eats and that's not a meme, it's literal, the fouling gets directed into the feeding mechanism. Also not completely sealed. No folding stocks either, and can't be made into a bullpup which are the actual final form of rifles. There's no wasted, hollow space on those other than the pistol grip.
Jaxson Gutierrez
muscovite? If so stay out of the far east we are full asshole
Aaron Gray
lol the muzzle device is
Jaxson Morris
Are you retarded?
Cooper Edwards
There's lots of room, but nothing will change until the US has had enough of the M4.
Gabriel Perez
Noguns detected. AR18 was the actual peak performance of weapon design.
Leo Gray
Better optics and suppressors
Luke Johnson
The AK was PEAK
Ryder Garcia
>missed that camouflage
FUCK
Elijah Fisher
yeah sure...doesn't even have a sloped cartridge.
its a joke
Josiah Nelson
WiFi connected and Alexa integrated, informs you when your laundry is done and allows you to see people ringing your doorbell in the scope if you've installed a doorbell camera.
Counts shots fired and orders ammo once you go through a set amount. Secretely logs GPS and directional data each time the trigger is pulled.
Logan Stewart
Don't forget the paid subscription needed to fire.
Carson Bell
He's not wrong, muzzle breaks are legal, Flash hiders are illegal. lol.
Michael Mitchell
damn u dumb as fuck LOL
Tyler Smith
AK 174
Parker Rivera
>charging handle in your face, in your faaaace, have to come off target to charge it
Spotted the nogunz, what is a bolt release
Brandon Edwards
For civilians, consider that most/many people use 30+ year old designs on a regular basis
most handguns are based on either a 100+ year old design or a 50+ year old design. I still haven't shot a gun I've liked more than my CZ85, except for maybe a Q5 SF and they're way to expensive for the average person.
Electronic primers failed already, so we won't see those, and I just don't see a radically different mechanical system of firearms operation taking hold over the next 30 years, given that there are already so many which are reliable and accurate.
Nathaniel Stewart
Like ARs, but with more tacticool shit on them.
Levi Butler
Elijah Thompson
Zorg ZF-1
Julian Hall
Fuck that gun and the supply ship it flew in on.
Camden Barnes
Most likely smaller more effective bullets if the technology allows it. We'll be using bullets long after we're dead, that I'm sure of. Smart technology is around the corner, integrate that with your firearms and you're set. Lighter, more durable material and gizmo's for your gun, shit, that'd be pretty cool to see.
Robert Hall
That is either the ugliest thing I've ever seen or the coolest.
Useless to my shooting preference, but my dick is confused.
Lincoln Mitchell
Moving the Goalposts: the post
Andrew Scott
Ultra newfag detected
William Collins
Probably like the guns we have today maybe with more integrated electronics like sights and hopefully lighter due to plastics or composite materials. If there is a big breakthrough in propellants maybe we could see caseless ammunition or electrically propelled rounds. My biggest hope is that DARPAS project maurader hasn't gone bust and we can see plasma based weapons in the future.
Tyler Hernandez
human-wielded small-arm FIREARMS, specifically;
molded propellant blocks or liquid/gas propellant, ignited by the weapon (almost surely electrically, slim possibility of some other method), minimal or no primer on the rounds (minimal primer possibility being some simple resistive material 'primer' for molded propellant blocks), firing in salvo/pulse as default replacement of 'semi' single shots.
however, by that time drone and robot tech will have come into its own and there will be very little interest in human infantry or even self-defense. micro-drone swarms will be the self-defense arms.
it is also entirely likely that human-wielded small-arms won't be firearms at all, any more, but rather direct energy or super-airsoft weapons.
'psychic warfare' and 'cyber warfare' will have come together and will be what actually dominates and decides the course and outcome of conflicts.
Aiden Lopez
Kentucky cops are pretty relaxed in the boonies. Except counties that touch one of kentuckys two urban counties. Besides that, you can pay/kinship your way outta most dealings with cops. Also most ky cops are super based and racist as shit.
Samuel Rodriguez
At the rate things are going now, this will be the best you can get in Texas
Andrew Davis
7 rounds in a mag. WTF, is it a future 1911?
Brayden Campbell
why the fuck are you retards talking about civilian restrictions on guns? that's obviously not the point of the fucking thread. this is like watching any youtube video about muzzleloaders and half the comments are dipshits going "hurr durr banned in commiefornia". shut up. you're not clever.
Logan Reed
>long range flame throwers
If you push enough power to your target, the resulting blast from the plasma would act like shrapnell-less HE.
Push even more power (we're talking a few orders of magnitude more from the previous one) , and you get what could be called a disruptor.
Jayden Martinez
>2 slide stops
>5 camera lenses
>marketed for deep concealment but has a massive charging handle, LAM, muzzle device and extended mag
>extended mag only holds 12 rounds MAXIMUM
Owen Jones
>Here in Russia if someone wants to take away my guns I can either fucking move or shoot them dead.
No you won't do shit faggot.
Caleb Perez
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The Chinks are also experimenting on magnetized plasma cartridges.
So the 'railgun' exists and could exist in the form of a round within the next 30 years.
This plasma-powered bullet could punch through lvl IV and tank armour at obscene distances and we will see the return of the AT gun.
Noah Ramirez
If/when we finally break past suppression of portable energy storage technology, 'airguns' featuring on-demand compression may become fairly popular. Depending on what else is happening, of course (this might also blow open outright directed energy weapons).
both would end up heavily used, just in different roles. there are plenty of roles where the relative hypothetical liquid damage susceptibility of the caseless variant just wouldn't be a factor at all.
if they wind up being totally interchangeable and running in the same weapons (which of course they really should be), I would actually expect for the cased rounds to gradually become the more niche variant, as worries prove to be unfounded. eventually being used only in extremely niche roles eg. special forces shit only.
Anthony Martin
You've never held one if you think that shit isn't a fucking die-cast crackjack toy.
Henry King
a materials science breakthrough for heat tolerance/dissipation would be neat
hopefully maturing tech / economies of scale re: home manufacture of barrels, etc as well
Asher Johnson
Does it hurt to be this retarded?
Isaac Carter
My town police chief and a country sheriff would come shoot with me and my friends all the time. Rural cops are pretty chill if you aren't a nigger
Brayden Price
>implying I'm that guy
Samuel Wood
>calls someone a nogun
>says the AR-18, a gun made for the fucking third world to use instead of an AR-15, is the peak of weapon design
Xavier Green
Xavier Clark
yas buasss
Hunter Hughes
The biggest problem is heatsinks that CT inherently solves. It's kinda like the issues handled, albeit in a fictional setting, in Mass Effect. It's just better to be able to put more shots downrange at the cost of waste than to plan around heat dispertion in a wasteless system.
Hunter Turner
Like AKs and ARs.
Jackson Rogers
stop posting airshit
Aaron Collins
Does anyone know the current limitations of polymer slide development? I figure material development will always be huge and we'll continue towards removing all metal from firearms. The future will be polymers and ceramics.
Daniel Richardson
Maybe it’s just my inner fudd, but I would like something like that with badass wood furniture.
Like make the stock and buffer tube connect with a thumb hole stock.
Leo Bennett
It's literally illegal to deny the holocaust in your country.
Kevin Price
The US has been doing for over 30 years now, even since MARAUDER took off.
Unless energy storage drastically changes that sort of stuff will only be used on ships or tanks.
Nicholas Thompson
That opens the door for common sense smart gun laws.
Imagine cowabunga and a kill switch is sent to your house, making gun have a seizure and forever have limp dick.
Kayden Butler
TSA Would like to know your location.
Joseph Edwards
A horrible reality where it's the twenty-first century and we still kill each other with seventeenth century materials.