[geeks] Just when you thought the usa was gun happy :-)

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Good point, but my point still stands. With guns that can these days
shoot thousands of rounds per second or even minute, what is the
difference in the end? The gun runs out of bullets 1 one hundredth of
a second sooner? 



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From: "Shawn Wallbridge" <swallbridge at franticfilms.com>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: [geeks] Just when you thought the usa was gun happy :-)


> The gun in question has 36 barrels, so it wouldn't be carried. It
> would be mounted on something or in something (think .50 cal).
> 
> shawn
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> Ok, the gun in question may be great, and it may have a shit load
> of ammo available. But at a million rounds a second, I wonder if it
> can hold that much. Can any gun that is one person carried weapon
> with such a high rate of fire last a second? How bout even half a
> second?  
> 
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> From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
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> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:11 PM
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> :-)  
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> 
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:55:26PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote: 
> >
> > > insanely large ROF weapons don't use clips since there is no
> > > point like you mentioned, and rather use a belt feed mechanism
> > > and a large
> > > container of rounds.
> >
> > The gun in question, I believe, doesn't use belts, but long
> > prepacked barrels with the bullets one in front of the next.
> >
> > If I recall correctly, one of the discussed uses was clearing
> > mine fields.
> >
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