Obturation
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The da/sa metal framed hammer guns will be around for the foreseeable future. I'm not a fan of them but a lot of folks are. I'm sure in the 1870s people were talking about how cap and ball guns were going to disappear and before that how the flintlocks would be gone ect.
Humans are nostalgic, even if something (anything) has been replaced by something arguably better the old things remain desirable to many. I don't see the military going back to them but civilians will continue to buy them. No real mystery there, countless people like to drive cars from the turn of the 20th century that have 20 horse power and get 5 miles to the gallon and they are broken more than they're running. That'll continue too. Nothing ever truly goes away completely.
I hated striker fired polymer guns , until I got one as kind of a joke to prove myself right. I was wrong and not being open minded, since then all my metal hammer fired semi autos have been sold off simply because I'm not a collector but the guys they were sold to were very happy to get them.
The government will use what is cheapest and works, the rest of us can pick what tickles our fancy.
Humans are nostalgic, even if something (anything) has been replaced by something arguably better the old things remain desirable to many. I don't see the military going back to them but civilians will continue to buy them. No real mystery there, countless people like to drive cars from the turn of the 20th century that have 20 horse power and get 5 miles to the gallon and they are broken more than they're running. That'll continue too. Nothing ever truly goes away completely.
I hated striker fired polymer guns , until I got one as kind of a joke to prove myself right. I was wrong and not being open minded, since then all my metal hammer fired semi autos have been sold off simply because I'm not a collector but the guys they were sold to were very happy to get them.
The government will use what is cheapest and works, the rest of us can pick what tickles our fancy.