the next big thing, invented for CA is...

[send it_hit]

Hmmm off center fired?

Zap fired, using a tazer for ignition.

http://www.metalstorm.com/IRM/content/home.html

[Briancnelson]

Gyrojet ammo!

Actually that would probably be banned already under existing laws about destructive devices.

But yeah, technology can always move faster than the idiots in Sacramento if we apply ourselves to it, so we just need to keep finding loopholes until the general tenor of pro gun feeling that is swelling in other states finds its way here, or the Supreme Court elaborates on the 2nd Amendment in a way that helps us here.

[POLICESTATE]

Or we could vote better people into office.

Not enough of us left anymore, and we're already being out-bred.

I'm thinking a 22 LR converted into something like the .17 with a necked-down case. Call is the .22 SR (Super Rifle)

Because the rim has to be soft I'm wondering if either a strengthened rim with a commensurately stronger firing pin (which may not be technically feasible anyway) or a redesigned rim such that there is a enough reinforcement that a stronger firing pin would not be necessary.

I would not simply do a better .22 LR though, I would evolve the round and have a whole new chambering.

[send it_hit]

Gyrojet ammo!

Actually that would probably be banned already under existing laws about destructive devices.

It's funny you mention gyrojet... someone just told me about it yesterday. pretty crazy stuff!

[NorCalAthlete]

http://www.metalstorm.com/IRM/content/home.html

Beat me to it. I've been following them for years, surprised they haven't caught on more. Maybe it's just the high cost or something.

[sl0re10]

I heard someone was working on a rimfire .223 to get around the law...

awesome.

[sl0re10]

a better U haul to get out of dodge.

self driving uhaul so it can drive itself back to California to pick up the next escapee.

[sl0re10]

I understand where the OP is going but there is somewhat of an assumption that .22lr is the only option for rimfire cartiridges. Before the invention of the centerfire cartridge there was a wide variety of rimfire cartridges available. The trick would be modifying firearms and ammunition to work together.

a couple are still produced... which would help defend them from accusations of being a new thing dreamed up to get around a law...

[UberPatriot]

Is it possible to make a rimfire primer that fit centerfire shells?

What I mean is, a thin flat primer that is as wide as the rim of the shell with a nub that fits into the existing hole for the conventional primer.

This way it's a rim fired primer but you can still reload.

[1911su16b870]

Is it possible to make a rimfire primer that fit centerfire shells?

What I mean is, a thin flat primer that is as wide as the rim of the shell with a nub that fits into the existing hole for the conventional primer.

This way it's a rim fired primer but you can still reload.

Good idea if you can keep the cartridge OAL the same and have it not ignite when struck center.

Prior Wikipedia rimfire info: Larger rimfire calibers were used during the Civil War in the Henry Repeater and the Spencer Repeater. While larger rimfire calibers were made, such as the, .30 rimfire, .32 rimfire, .38 rimfire .41 Short, the .44 Henry Flat devised for the famous Winchester 1866 carbine, up to the .58 Miller, the larger calibers were quickly replaced by centerfire versions, and today the .22 caliber rimfires are all that survive of the early rimfires.

[UberPatriot]

Good idea if you can keep the cartridge OAL the same and have it not ignite when struck center.

I'm sure they could be made very thin, they would be pressed into existing centerfire shells kind of like a brass snap you find on clothing.

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[emptybottle151]

Change the primer to an electrical ignition, the firing pin as a battery and the existing hammer as a switch. You'll only have to replace the primer (through reloading) and the firing pin.

So the hammer would "push" a button on the back of the firing pin that acts as a rechargeable battery that sends an electrical charge to the primer for an electrical ignition.

[Nrai2020]

Everyone knows in the future there will be laser-guided lazers....

[RP1911]

.22 phaser