Mini-drones that will carry a small gun of some sort. You will control them with Google glass. They will look like a propeller beanie of old and will take off from your noggin when you are threatened. Probably have three or so rounds of 5.7 or the like.
What will the next major advance in firearms be?
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Sort of already in the making, but not really...
Smart bullets. Every round contains a computer chip and tiny flight control surfaces. Links to your scope, bullet makes minor course corrections in flight to hit orignial intended target.
They have something similar now, but they are more like grenades or miniature missles, nothing in the handgun class.
You think ammo is expensive NOW? Wait till there is a chip in every round!
Smart bullets. Every round contains a computer chip and tiny flight control surfaces. Links to your scope, bullet makes minor course corrections in flight to hit orignial intended target.
They have something similar now, but they are more like grenades or miniature missles, nothing in the handgun class.
You think ammo is expensive NOW? Wait till there is a chip in every round!
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You know...all we need to do now is make movies (a liberal communications medium favorite for ideology) which show all the liberally-minded characters in the script being killed off by the bad guy because their high-tech defensive firearms keep failing or are otherwise jammed by the bad guy.
You know...this has great potential for a suspense/horror movie script.
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Chief, they made that movie! Demolition Man!
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Firearms or whatever replaces them are going to get so expensive that regular people won't be able to afford them, only the military, police, and the very wealthy. Everything will be traceable back to the person who actually fired the thing (fingerprints, GPS coordinates, a digital photo). The doggone thing will probably also notify the police when the projectile or whatever hits a person or a critter out of season. Then the police will be stumped when someone is killed with a greased, patched, steel ball bearing fired from a homemade, muzzle-loading, smoothbore, flintlock pistol charged with homemade black powder. That's when things come full circle.
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Oh yeah! But that was an action flick.
Now we need some in horror/suspense and chick-flicks!
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I don't want smart guns. I like my old clunky metal machines.
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You know...all we need to do now is make movies (a liberal communications medium favorite for ideology) which show all the liberally-minded characters in the script being killed off by the bad guy because their high-tech defensive firearms keep failing or are otherwise jammed by the bad guy.
You know...this has great potential for a suspense/horror movie script.
I like it! We need a gun, call it the Feinstein model, that has a wireless network interface. That way, when you pull the trigger in self defense, the gun can first get authorization through a government Insta-Check system before firing.
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I like it! We need a gun, call it the Feinstein model, that has a wireless network interface. That way, when you pull the trigger in self defense, the gun can first get authorization through a government Insta-Check system before firing.
Like, maybe in this skit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wypFgcqHyvc
"Welcome to the California Handgun Protection Agency. For English, say 'English'..."
Tell me this ain't funny!
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I'm going to say optics that computer your range, windage, etc and automatically adjusts reticle to compensate. I know there are systems that are attempting some of these things already like the Burrus eliminator (I believe it only compensates for range). I'm waiting to see the full system completely contained in the body of the scope and can be had by your average consumer.
I also think that the etronix rifle by Remington was ahead of its time. I really like the idea, but it apparently just never caught on.
I also think that the etronix rifle by Remington was ahead of its time. I really like the idea, but it apparently just never caught on.
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I'm an engineer by training. . .
. . . which is why I like talking this stuff so much.
In the mid-future, say 30 years would be my guess, there is a good chance your firearm/optic will have a THz frequency scanner or doppler radar system integrated, that tracks your rounds, and computes the correction for follow up shots.
The THz scanner would also let you know who is packing in the area; concealed carry won't be concealed anymore. (Think of the scanner as akin to the x-ray machine in Total Recall. That's about how it works.)
I expect all but the cheapest optics to go digital by that time as well. The state of the art of computerized optics is just too good for pure "dumb" optics to compete on the high end. That, coupled with newer battery tech (Lithium air, which I mentioned above) will mean the optics will likely have multiple year run times. (and be smart enough to go into hibernation when not in use.)
We're also likely to see exotic materials cladding the barrels, both on the outside and inside. You can already get a Carbon Fibre reinforced barrel on Volquartsen 10-22s (and others) but as the technology gets cheaper the uptake of such composite barrels will be much more common. I could see a traditional thin steel barrel, with carbon fibre, nanotubes, or graphene on the exterior for stiffness and strength, and a very thin layer of a very strong, low friction ceramic inside the barrel, with laser cut rifling that goes into the steel.
These advances are all in testing now (well not the THz scanner integration) but the technology is nowhere near robust enough for actual use yet. (exception being the carbon fibre reinforced barrels.)
. . . which is why I like talking this stuff so much.
In the mid-future, say 30 years would be my guess, there is a good chance your firearm/optic will have a THz frequency scanner or doppler radar system integrated, that tracks your rounds, and computes the correction for follow up shots.
The THz scanner would also let you know who is packing in the area; concealed carry won't be concealed anymore. (Think of the scanner as akin to the x-ray machine in Total Recall. That's about how it works.)
I expect all but the cheapest optics to go digital by that time as well. The state of the art of computerized optics is just too good for pure "dumb" optics to compete on the high end. That, coupled with newer battery tech (Lithium air, which I mentioned above) will mean the optics will likely have multiple year run times. (and be smart enough to go into hibernation when not in use.)
We're also likely to see exotic materials cladding the barrels, both on the outside and inside. You can already get a Carbon Fibre reinforced barrel on Volquartsen 10-22s (and others) but as the technology gets cheaper the uptake of such composite barrels will be much more common. I could see a traditional thin steel barrel, with carbon fibre, nanotubes, or graphene on the exterior for stiffness and strength, and a very thin layer of a very strong, low friction ceramic inside the barrel, with laser cut rifling that goes into the steel.
These advances are all in testing now (well not the THz scanner integration) but the technology is nowhere near robust enough for actual use yet. (exception being the carbon fibre reinforced barrels.)
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