Is there anything new under the sun?

[Mr_Flintstone]

Well, 90 years ago you could go into a general store and buy a BAR or Thompson. 45 years ago you could still buy a new select fire AR 15 with the appropriate paperwork and excise tax. 25 years ago, you couldn’t buy a new AR or AK; only used. 15 years ago it was illegal in some places to own a tube fed .22 rifle that held more than 15 rounds. 5 years ago gun magazine holding more than 10 rounds were classified as “high capacity” magazines and banned in several places.

The only thing new under the sun is more stupid gun laws.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Well, 90 years ago you could go into a general store and buy a BAR or Thompson. 45 years ago you could still buy a new select fire AR 15 with the appropriate paperwork and excise tax. 25 years ago, you couldn’t buy a new AR or AK; only used. 15 years ago it was illegal in some places to own a tube fed .22 rifle that held more than 15 rounds. 5 years ago gun magazine holding more than 10 rounds were classified as “high capacity” magazines and banned in several places.

The only thing new under the sun is more stupid gun laws.

Thanks for being a Debbie Downer. ;(
I try to focus on the good, while fighting the bad.
There is still hope. We just need our kids to talk sense into their peers. Then we have more pro Americans.

 

[Mr_Flintstone]

Thanks for being a Debbie Downer. ;(
I try to focus on the good, while fighting the bad.
There is still hope. We just need our kids to talk sense into their peers. Then we have more pro Americans.

Sorry. At least the Federal AWB has lapsed.

 

[earlthegoat2]

It seems no one can sell a rifle without a threaded barrel recently.

 

[newfalguy101]

Short answer is no, there have been nothing really new in the last hundred or so years.

Different materials and closer tolerances are simply better, or perhaps simply different, ways to do the same thing guns did in the latter part of the 1800's.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Sorry. At least the Federal AWB has lapsed.

I was being facetious.

 

[sage5907]

Probably the most important changes in the near future are in the targeting technologies. Most folks aren't very good at estimating ranges, wind speeds, movement rates of moving targets, the effect of shooting at higher or lower targets, and the effects of different loads.

I think you said it right. It's about target shooting. For the hunter shots come very quickly and there is very little time to do all of the things that a target shooter does to hit a long range target. Not only that, there are very few second chances when it comes to hunting. A target shooter can fire at a target and if the shot is bad he can readjust and shoot again. Good luck with that in hunting. I do some taxidermy work and even the most experienced long range hunters often shoot a deer more than once to get it down. People never talk about that on the forums but I've sewed up a lot of bullet holes.