100 years from now?

I just hope that any of my future relatives are still able to have and are able to use any of my guns.

I suspect so. With the move to synthetics and "exotic" metals and manufacturing processes, I'm already looking at pistols made 30 years ago as a dying breed of art. As mentioned above, let's hope we have the liberty to own firearms then also.

"I much prefer the classic look of melonite and polymer..."

When the smokeless cartridge era is over, future old guys will pine for them as they check their weapon's lenses for obstructions.

We will be at the range with our phase plasma rifles in the 40 watt range remarking about the crude method of using metal cased gun powder and lead for hunting and self-defense that earlier generations dealt with.

Honestly? Yes and No.

100 years ago, there were some outstanding guns made. Works of art that we admire today. But there were also low-end guns that we dismiss as "old junk". I suspect that 100 years from now, the shooters will feel the same way.

I suspect there will be no privately owned firearms in much less than 100 years.
Even posting about them on the Internet will be forbidden by the government under penalty of imprisonment in reeducation camps.

ontarget said:

In 100 years will people look at the guns of today like we look at the guns of the last 100 years, with an appreciation and a bit of nostalgia?

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A hundred years from now -- assuming that guns are still legal -- people will look at revolvers the way we look at muzzleloaders. (Note that technological progress is not linear, but tends to accelerate and snowball.) By that time, reproductions of classic revolvers will be made for collectors and nostalgic competitions. They won't be taken seriously as weapons.

Nostalgia yes, years from now ole folks like us will relive youth by shooting the ole 357. Fit and finish will he virtually perfect in far less than 100 years. Unfortunately I think 375supermag is correct.

I suspect revolvers will be seen as novelties only, but antique lovers will value them.

If polymer guns are ever seen as anything other than what they are, a cheap means to an end, well I'll be dead, so whatever.

ontarget said:

In 100 years will people look at the guns of today like we look at the guns of the last 100 years, with an appreciation and a bit of nostalgia?

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Yes!

In 100 years people will look at the guns of today and wonder why it took so long to move the sights to the sides of the slides.

think of the last century. 100s of millions of people starved to death. 100s of millions more died in countless wars. 100s of millions dies of disease and pandemics. who knows that the rest of this century will bring and what the world will look like in 100 years? I'm 47 and sometimes feel like I've seen quite a bit, but when I think about it - way less than my parents generation, and nothing at all like the 2 generations or more before that.

film495 said:

think of the last century. 100s of millions of people starved to death. 100s of millions more died in countless wars. 100s of millions dies of disease and pandemics. who knows that the rest of this century will bring and what the world will look like in 100 years? I'm 47 and sometimes feel like I've seen quite a bit, but when I think about it - way less than my parents generation, and nothing at all like the 2 generations or more before that.

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Very true. Your post reminded me that my great grandfather had 12 children and 5 of them died during the influenza outbreak of 1918. Today I couldn't imagine a loss like that.

Wow, what a depressing thread!

Maybe I'm a bit naive, but I didn't think that private firearm ownership would be banished in a century or far less.

I don't tend to be an overly optimistic person with regards to the future, but even I find it difficult to fathom that our freedoms would disappear that quickly.

Certainly those of one political persuasion tend to chip away at our rights when in power and those of other political persuasions restore rights when in power, so it's a bit of a pendulum...

Also, it would be very difficult to overturn the Second Amendment.

As far as a nostalgia for black plastic...I don't know, I suppose anything is possible. But then again I own few post 1898 firearms and prefer the fit and finish of the earlier stuff.

The way around this is, of course, every serious revolver afficianado should own at least one pre 1899 firearm. If they don't know you have it, it's much less likely it will be confiscated.

100 years ago it took more effort and craftsmanship to make a gun. Guns are mainstream now and mass produced. They will not be appreciated the same as in the past.

More likely that guns will be a part of drones and robots, with the gun being the simplest part of the machine and nothing special.

That or I’m 180 degrees off and we will appreciate guns because society and manufacturing has collapsed and we’re hanging on to all of the previously produced products. In that case, an old gun will be more valuable than gold.

Think about it !
In 100 years you, your kids, and even your grand kids will be gone.
So who knows.

Our great great grandkids will have names like R2D2 and 3CPO!

I won't be around to see it, but I would hope that our great-great grandchildren would still enjoy living in a free country.

Wait, I don't just hope it, I need to be doing my part to ensure it. How about you?

ontarget said:

I tend to think we will still own our guns in the future. I know some will continue to try to chip away at that Right but sooner or later it will come to a boiling point and guess who has the means to affect the outcome. That however is not a discussion for THR.
So assume for this discussion that our future gun enthusiasts still enjoy a lively 2A like we do.

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There may be an intervening period (say, like 50 years from now) when guns are completely outlawed. But then they may be legalized again, as curiosities, after weapons technology progresses in other directions. This won't have anything to do with the 2nd Amendment, which will be just as much a relic. Maybe chips will be implanted in people's brains to make them incapable of misuse of guns (or any criminal activity, for that matter).

In 100 years, you may be able to 3D print any firearm ever made at home for next to nothing. Just download the app …