[DUMBGRUNT]

Now is not quite the time to be reaching for your wallet.

Yes, fun to read specs.

But about the same muzzle energy as a heavy slingshot.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Get back to me when you are in the neighborhood of 2200 fps.

[Steely Tom]

A joule is not a unit of force.

[Billthedrill]

a “dual Clamped Quasi-Resonant Inverter.”

Nobody needs a dual Clamped Quasi-Resonant Inverter to hunt deer...

[LIConFem]

I can make one for a few hundred $$$ in parts.

[Ken522]

The Chinese will have fun reverse-engineering this baby!

[Husker24]

A large caliber air gun would make more sense.

[Obadiah]

That’s what instantly caught my attention. 200fps? A bb gun might have better specs.

[algore]

Nope. Never buy first gen electronics.

Remember when 15” flatscreen monitors were $2,000 in 1998 ?

Now you can get one that is 75” and have $$ left for an hdmi cable

[Bonemaker]

200 ft per second? No thanks...I’ll take a Kentucky Long Rifle.

[Billthedrill]

Arcflash's rifle measures 38 inches in length with a barrel length of 26 inches, weighs 20 pounds...

OK, I get it now. You stalk your victim, shoot it in the butt, wait for it to turn around to see what happened, and club it to death...

[patriotfury]

Did BAE let the tech slip?

[bunkerhill7]

I always carry a one pound magnet in my pocket that I can take out and throw at a bear 75 get away. That way I don’t have anything heavy in my pocket when I run away.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

200fps? Another product for the more money than brains crowd.

Make a great party favor at the Zero’s birthday party.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The company says the weapon is “capable of accelerating any ferromagnetic projectile (under 1/2″ in diameter) to 200+ fps [feet per second]”

My Red Ryder had better ballistics than this thing.

[Terry L Smith]

Who stole the plans from the Necrons?

“You stole the plans from ‘them’ ???!!!”

[PTBAA]

Wake me when they start offering a 40-watt Phased Plasma Pulse-Gun.

[M Kehoe]

Not a phased 40 watt plasma rifle. In black.

5.56mm

[Kevmo]

Not a firearm. Cool

[Born to Conserve]

I made an electromagnet gun for a tenth grade physics project (1975/76). It fired at 75fps. I timed the successive magnets with a falling weighted switch. It could hit a paper plate at fifty feet with steel BBs. They had a great used parts stockpile at that school. I was using parts from pre ww2 radios etc. Lots of brass, wood, and Bakelite. I could slide the magnets up and down the barrel, and the contacts around the switch stator. I spend days fine tuning the timing.

Nerdiest thing I ever did.

[lepton]

Next question: How long does it last before you have to replace the ‘barrel’? Depending on the exact technology, electromagnetic accelerators are notorious for slowly turning the barrel into plasma.