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To: i-node who wrote (318)	11/11/2002 10:01:26 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 7936

LOL! The economy the way it is they'll probably try to sell it as a great tool for around the house, opening cans, cutting new doorways, etc. (Kind of like in the 1920s when Thompson took out ads showing farmers holding his machine gun for use around the ranch, LOL!) Apparently the way it works is wedge-shaped rounds that don't move back when the round in front is fired. They must have some electronic ignition in the cartridge as well, and tricky timing to make sure the go in the...right...sequence... Otherwise you throw out a 10" long slug at slow speed, while the gun flies backwards out of your hand. In Vietnam there was an experimental handgun with 12 tiny barrels with flechette rockets that had no recoil, and went 3400 fps, but in somewhat random directions ... ha ha ! When they found out they couldn't narrow the aim less than 10 degrees called it a "brush-clearing weapon"... Typical marketing to cover engineering failure. When I went into systems engineering we called it the change from "bug" to "feature"...