Wonder when this will become a big story: man creates 3D printed Railgun at home

[goon]

At one point, guns were unwieldy single-shot pipes that no one knew how to use for anything. Then they weren't. Same thing will happen with these, or with whatever the next leap in small arms ends up being.

 

[Arizona_Mike]

Yeah, there's a lot more than 40 Watts of power involved in one shot in that thing. I'll bet it runs into the many-kiloWatt range.

"40 watt range" is a Terminator reference
https://youtu.be/BIPCn-aYMoM

Mike