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Here is another application.

"AICW - an advanced individual combat weapon, equipped with a Metal Storm barrel using a range of projectiles including air bursting and kinetic rounds"

Here was the next century combat weapon being devoloped for US and Nato use. It got cancelled. One key reason was weight.

http://www.hkpro.com/oicwcasing.jpg

Note the big part here.

http://www.hkpro.com/oicwstripped.jpg

Now see the prototype using this technology.

http://www.tenix.com/PDFLibrary/150.pdf

BTW: DARPA (U.S. - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has funded a lot of the research and development of this technology platform.

Check out these 2 articles:

WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- A new ballistic technology that can fire burst rates in excess of one million rounds per minute from a 36-barrel weapon was one of the reasons Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld canceled the $11 billion Crusader artillery system.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=12052002-105108-1155r

From the Weekly Standard:

Metal Storm: Rise of the Machines
How one company is creating guns that fire a million rounds per minute and revolutionizing the way we think about weapons.
by Victorino Matus
07/16/2003 12:00:00 AM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/893foort.asp

Thanks for all the links. The Metal Storm technology may be quite useful. The Dynamic Grip Recognition technology, like other "smart" technologies are something else.

They are persuing technological approaches on the assumption that anyone but the authorized user is to be avoided at all costs, even if that unauthoeized person has good intentions, such as stopping a bad guy. It's based on the "if it can save only one life" line of reasoning, and it denies the approximately two million times each year that crimes are thwarted, the vast majority of those criminals stopped by the mere brandishng of a weapon by the intended victim.