benEzra
Moderator Emeritus
Yup. Obviously they never heard of interchangeable barrels and magazines for 9mm/.357/.40 platforms..."For the first time, interchangeable and multiple barrels can be made available to fire a range of projectiles of varying caliber from the same handgun."
The reporter obviously isn't familiar with guns...
Metalstorm. The prime corporate sponsor of this farce.
Also, to reload the (Metalstorm) gun you have to change the whole barrel. How quick an operation will that be? Will you be able to "speed reload" in 1.5 seconds, or do you have to essentially field-strip it? How expensive will it be to buy the spare preloaded barrels from Metalstorm? Betcha you won't be able to buy 100 rounds for $9.95 at Wal-Mart.
As one who has had a LOT of contact with medical equipment (my son is a special-needs kid)--do you know how EXPENSIVE those triply-redundant certified exhaustively tested medical electronics are? And they generally don't have to endure things like recoil accelerations, hot combustion products, wild temperature swings, etc.; are regularly inspected and maintained; and if one DOES fail (and I have seen them fail), there are spares immediately available.Bottom line, you're making really ridiculous comparisions (ignoring tech in medical fields, for example, not everything is about weapons...).