JimmyRustles
06-21-2012, 7:30 PM
Lately I've been doing a lot of research on California gun laws, and I realized something, California has no laws regarding railguns.
So here's my idea: A railgun built on a modified AR15 lower reciever. Detachable battery packs would go into the magwell, and projectiles would be loaded from the top (like a P90 mag). The safety switch would turn the battery pack on, while a pull of the trigger would move the projectile into firing positing between the rails, the projectile itself completes the circuit. It would be a retarded DAO with a mechanical safety, but it could work. Just replace the barrel/handguard assembly with the rails. When you run out of batteries you just drop your old battery pack and put a new one in. When you run out of ammo, you just pop in another mag. The railgun would be front heavy, but that could be offset by the top loading design and battery pack. The buffer tube/buffer/spring will be removed and replaced with a folding stock. You can still have picatinny rails and all that crap. Every railgun out there is a monstrously unwieldy piece of crap and are not combat effective. This way you can have the ergos of the ar15, with a minimal amount of retraining, most of the controls would be same as ar15, and an effective weapon.
The gun wouldn't require cleaning, as there wouldn't be any residue left after firing. The gun would be able to propel projectiles faster than a firearm, giving you more kinetic energy and you would be able to carry more ammo in your mag and on your person (less ammo weight as the only ammo it requires is the metal projectile). The gun would have negligible recoil as there isn't a force going the opposite direction.
Only technical problem I can see so far are the batteries. Are there even batteries with enough juice to make this plausible?
Pros:
You can have any evil features you want and have "high capacity magazines" because it's not a firearm.
Minimal recoil
More kinetic energy (lethality) in about the same size package as an ar15
Controls similar to ar15
Less Maintenance
Cons:
Heavy battery packs
DAO trigger
More complex trigger mechanism
You would have to carry battery packs and ammo
So here's my idea: A railgun built on a modified AR15 lower reciever. Detachable battery packs would go into the magwell, and projectiles would be loaded from the top (like a P90 mag). The safety switch would turn the battery pack on, while a pull of the trigger would move the projectile into firing positing between the rails, the projectile itself completes the circuit. It would be a retarded DAO with a mechanical safety, but it could work. Just replace the barrel/handguard assembly with the rails. When you run out of batteries you just drop your old battery pack and put a new one in. When you run out of ammo, you just pop in another mag. The railgun would be front heavy, but that could be offset by the top loading design and battery pack. The buffer tube/buffer/spring will be removed and replaced with a folding stock. You can still have picatinny rails and all that crap. Every railgun out there is a monstrously unwieldy piece of crap and are not combat effective. This way you can have the ergos of the ar15, with a minimal amount of retraining, most of the controls would be same as ar15, and an effective weapon.
The gun wouldn't require cleaning, as there wouldn't be any residue left after firing. The gun would be able to propel projectiles faster than a firearm, giving you more kinetic energy and you would be able to carry more ammo in your mag and on your person (less ammo weight as the only ammo it requires is the metal projectile). The gun would have negligible recoil as there isn't a force going the opposite direction.
Only technical problem I can see so far are the batteries. Are there even batteries with enough juice to make this plausible?
Pros:
You can have any evil features you want and have "high capacity magazines" because it's not a firearm.
Minimal recoil
More kinetic energy (lethality) in about the same size package as an ar15
Controls similar to ar15
Less Maintenance
Cons:
Heavy battery packs
DAO trigger
More complex trigger mechanism
You would have to carry battery packs and ammo