General GunTuber thread

[Corn Flakes]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=izW1X2555WgSpeaking of Gauss cannons. This is one of the only Demolition Ranch videos I actually watched the majority of. At 6:00 GT shows off a burst. Seems like it would be a pretty great crowd control weapon.

At the moment it looks like scaling gauss cannon down to realistic/usable dimensions, sacrifices a lot of performance. The Arcflash anvil weighs 20lbs.

It's still very much a technology in the embryonic stage, and it's limited by power storage capabilities. But it's there, and you never know when Tesla or some other company will get a storage breakthrough that then filters down to the consumer level after a few years.

if they are considered airguns i dont think full auto would be illegal.

Yes, which is why I mentioned it drawing the attention of the wrong politician. Because one of those will try to make it illegal. A weapon that only requires electricity to fire and can be loaded with homemade projectiles? That's a nightmare for gun grabbers.

Close your eyes and you can see the headlines on CNN and MSNBC. Electric assault guns: fully automatic computerized terror. They've done this with black rifles before. And if a kid brings even one of these low-powered "pistols" to school there will be a whole other song and dance even if he doesn't shoot anyone. Sure, they likely won't get a blanket ban to stick nationwide, but they'll damn well try.

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

It's still very much a technology in the embryonic stage, and it's limited by power storage capabilities. But it's there, and you never know when Tesla or some other company will get a storage breakthrough that then filters down to the consumer level after a few years.


Yes, which is why I mentioned it drawing the attention of the wrong politician. Because one of those will try to make it illegal. A weapon that only requires electricity to fire and can be loaded with homemade projectiles? That's a nightmare for gun grabbers.

Close your eyes and you can see the headlines on CNN and MSNBC. Electric assault guns: fully automatic computerized terror. They've done this with black rifles before. And if a kid brings even one of these low-powered "pistols" to school there will be a whole other song and dance even if he doesn't shoot anyone. Sure, they likely won't get a blanket ban to stick nationwide, but they'll damn well try.

A lot of these states supposedly have smart gun laws that, when the first "smart gun" goes on market all traditional firearms become illegal. Electric ignition might be a trigger IDK. that was part of why the remington electronx (electric ignition model 700) died i think.

 

[DocAwe]

It's still very much a technology in the embryonic stage, and it's limited by power storage capabilities. But it's there, and you never know when Tesla or some other company will get a storage breakthrough that then filters down to the consumer level after a few years.


Yes, which is why I mentioned it drawing the attention of the wrong politician. Because one of those will try to make it illegal. A weapon that only requires electricity to fire and can be loaded with homemade projectiles? That's a nightmare for gun grabbers.

Close your eyes and you can see the headlines on CNN and MSNBC. Electric assault guns: fully automatic computerized terror. They've done this with black rifles before. And if a kid brings even one of these low-powered "pistols" to school there will be a whole other song and dance even if he doesn't shoot anyone. Sure, they likely won't get a blanket ban to stick nationwide, but they'll damn well try.

New angle, they are EPGs
Electricity Powered Guns.
Just add a solar cell and call it green, zero carbon footprint!
MAGNETS!

 

[Mikoyan]

A lot of these states supposedly have smart gun laws that, when the first "smart gun" goes on market all traditional firearms become illegal. Electric ignition might be a trigger IDK. that was part of why the remington electronx (electric ignition model 700) died i think.

People were a little afraid of that. Etronx wasn't anywhere near a 'smart gun' though. That's like user authentication technology and shit that will basically never work.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Afaik electric ignition only been successful in finding a niche with muzzle and breechloaders. For replacing percussion caps and ease of cleaning.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

It's still very much a technology in the embryonic stage, and it's limited by power storage capabilities. But it's there, and you never know when Tesla or some other company will get a storage breakthrough that then filters down to the consumer level after a few years.


Yes, which is why I mentioned it drawing the attention of the wrong politician. Because one of those will try to make it illegal. A weapon that only requires electricity to fire and can be loaded with homemade projectiles? That's a nightmare for gun grabbers.

Close your eyes and you can see the headlines on CNN and MSNBC. Electric assault guns: fully automatic computerized terror. They've done this with black rifles before. And if a kid brings even one of these low-powered "pistols" to school there will be a whole other song and dance even if he doesn't shoot anyone. Sure, they likely won't get a blanket ban to stick nationwide, but they'll damn well try.

Airguns capable of killing have been a thing since Napoleon. Nobody will really care unless they are somehow as good as powder guns. And at that point the wrong politicians will try to ban them because they're real guns at that point.

 

[Corn Flakes]

Airguns capable of killing have been a thing since Napoleon. Nobody will really care unless they are somehow as good as powder guns. And at that point the wrong politicians will try to ban them because they're real guns at that point.

Clearly, some politicians already think your average BB gun is as good as powder guns since they're banned/regulated in so many states/counties already.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Clearly, some politicians already think your average BB gun is as good as powder guns since they're banned/regulated in so many states/counties already.

I'm sorry to spoil your scifi fanfiction. Clearly coil guns will be regulated as fully automated assault machine guns in our lifetime because gun unfriendly states are unfriendly to airguns too.

If we're going to speculate about future regulation I'm more excited to see how 3D printed guns develop. You can 3D print coilguns already if you really want to stick with that.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

I have simple needs, like propelling a small projectile to a relativistic velocity high enough to vaporize solid tungsten on impact.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I'm sorry to spoil your scifi fanfiction. Clearly coil guns will be regulated as fully automated assault machine guns in our lifetime because gun unfriendly states are unfriendly to airguns too.

If we're going to speculate about future regulation I'm more excited to see how 3D printed guns develop. You can 3D print coilguns already if you really want to stick with that.

Scifi fanfiction? Really? How's the weather like up your own ass?

I'm saying that coilguns will get regulated like guns the moment they start becoming popular or they draw the attention of the political class. That's if they don't get regulated even harder because they don't have the cultural inertia behind them that firearms do.

This has nothing to do with power or practicality compared to real firearms. Right now they're classed as airguns because nothing has caused anyone to kick up enough of a fuss about them to change legislation. Not coincidentally, 3D-printed guns are already a step or two ahead in that process since there has been the initial media blitz vilifying them, and there are ongoing crackdowns since they're considered "ghost guns". If the coof hadn't drawn soo much attention these past two years, you can bet there would be a lot more legislation flying around to try and curtail 3D-printing guns.

For the record, I don't think man-portable magnetically accelerated weapons will ever become practical enough to displace or even compete against conventional firearms in general use. The difference in potential power between capacitors and smokeless propellants is too pronounced, simply because the reaction in the propellant doesn't need to be reversible.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Brandon "Jumpcut" Herrera made a review of the Luty as it was intended. There's just something nostalgic about seeing a tubegun being run outside of a sterile environment.
It does bother me, though, whenever someone casually flexes their SOT with a piece of pipe like this. Yes! You, too, could make this absolute piece of shit if you start a business and pretend to make things for military or law enforcement!

 

[Corn Flakes]

It does bother me, though, whenever someone casually flexes their SOT with a piece of pipe like this. Yes! You, too, could make this absolute piece of shit if you start a business and pretend to make things for military or law enforcement!

I don't think that's the intended take, though. The point of the Luty isn't that you can make one if you get a SOT and all that shit. The point is that the Luty is meant to be built when shit is getting... less than legal.

That sheet metal piece of shit was designed for people who don't have access to guns but really need some firepower and don't give a shit about the law (or the law broke down). Which is why the Luty was designed in the UK. Here in America someone who's really planning for a situation like that and has the sort of equipment that would allow them to build them a Luty could just scratch-build an auto sear for their AR-15 or drill a third hole for a lot less effort. All that in Minecraft, of course.

Over here the Luty is a curio. In Europe it's a political statement.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Ian has decided to do a Full30 Part Deux - those that cannot remember, Full30 originated as a paywalled service for gun videos that were far more in-depth than YouTube was comfortable with, even at the time. Currently Full30 is dying a slow and painful death, filled with biblethumpers and benchshooting.
Utreon, while it does have a paywall, offers an alternative in that you are allowed to watch these videos if you sign up for an account and expose yourself to advertisements.

I don't think that's the intended take, though. The point of the Luty isn't that you can make one if you get a SOT and all that shit. The point is that the Luty is meant to be built when shit is getting... less than legal.

Not the intended take at all, no, but a side-effect by posting a video with a legally registered tubegun. It's a personal gripe since this shit, in a more ideal world, would not otherwise be regulated whereas today the right person can flaunt it openly and the average Joe can't even willfully register one.

 

[HelpingNoone]

Ian has decided to do a Full30 Part Deux - those that cannot remember, Full30 originated as a paywalled service for gun videos that were far more in-depth than YouTube was comfortable with, even at the time. Currently Full30 is dying a slow and painful death, filled with biblethumpers and benchshooting.
Utreon, while it does have a paywall, offers an alternative in that you are allowed to watch these videos if you sign up for an account and expose yourself to advertisements.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_eFMxAqFjDk

What an eyesore of a homepage... Anime and PUAs.

 

[UVB-76]

Airguns capable of killing have been a thing since Napoleon. Nobody will really care unless they are somehow as good as powder guns. And at that point the wrong politicians will try to ban them because they're real guns at that point.

The Caselman isn't well known but that thing is close to .32 ACP in power. Doesn't sound like much but to someone in nogunz land that's certainly worth considering.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I don't think that's the intended take, though. The point of the Luty isn't that you can make one if you get a SOT and all that shit. The point is that the Luty is meant to be built when shit is getting... less than legal.

That sheet metal piece of shit was designed for people who don't have access to guns but really need some firepower and don't give a shit about the law (or the law broke down). Which is why the Luty was designed in the UK. Here in America someone who's really planning for a situation like that and has the sort of equipment that would allow them to build them a Luty could just scratch-build an auto sear for their AR-15 or drill a third hole for a lot less effort. All that in Minecraft, of course.

Over here the Luty is a curio. In Europe it's a political statement.

I remember some autistic German trying to build one and go on a Tarrant style livestreamed rampage with it while proving the utility of improvised weaponry and it was a total piece of shit incapable of doing much more than killing one person with almost suicidal levels of self-awareness. It was probably more down to his incompetence more than anything but while I appreciate the sentiment behind the Luty I think that particular example at least ended up being more useful as a gungrabber argument than anything (imagine if Krautland didn't have sensible gun control laws and he could easily buy an AR-16 weapon of war!) unfortunately.

 

[Champion The Wonder Horse]

I remember some autistic German trying to build one and go on a Tarrant style livestreamed rampage with it while proving the utility of improvised weaponry and it was a total piece of shit incapable of doing much more than killing one person with almost suicidal levels of self-awareness. It was probably more down to his incompetence more than anything but while I appreciate the sentiment behind the Luty I think that particular example at least ended up being more useful as a gungrabber argument than anything (imagine if Krautland didn't have sensible gun control laws and he could easily buy an AR-16 weapon of war!) unfortunately.

IIRC said krauts troubles were down to him using improvised ammunition made from matches rather than anything fundamental to the Luty design. However, these days JStark is the new Philip Luty, there's an awful lot of FGC9s turning up in the hands of rebels in Burma, amongst other places.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I remember some autistic German trying to build one and go on a Tarrant style livestreamed rampage with it while proving the utility of improvised weaponry and it was a total piece of shit incapable of doing much more than killing one person with almost suicidal levels of self-awareness. It was probably more down to his incompetence more than anything but while I appreciate the sentiment behind the Luty I think that particular example at least ended up being more useful as a gungrabber argument than anything (imagine if Krautland didn't have sensible gun control laws and he could easily buy an AR-16 weapon of war!) unfortunately.

Gungrabbers will always turn anything into an argument for grabbing guns, that's just what they do. On the other hand, Europe (mostly France) has given us plenty of examples of a weapon that surpasses any gun when it comes to random mass violence:

Someone carrying one of these is fully qualified to plow a rented pickup truck into any busy crowd they want, no need for guns.

 

[Shaka Brah]

The Caselman isn't well known but that thing is close to .32 ACP in power. Doesn't sound like much but to someone in nogunz land that's certainly worth considering.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=POCGiy5VpxI:242

Damn this is like a Luty but compressed gas powered. Very cool.

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

I remember some autistic German trying to build one and go on a Tarrant style livestreamed rampage with it while proving the utility of improvised weaponry and it was a total piece of shit incapable of doing much more than killing one person with almost suicidal levels of self-awareness. It was probably more down to his incompetence more than anything but while I appreciate the sentiment behind the Luty I think that particular example at least ended up being more useful as a gungrabber argument than anything (imagine if Krautland didn't have sensible gun control laws and he could easily buy an AR-16 weapon of war!) unfortunately.

IIRC said krauts troubles were down to him using improvised ammunition made from matches rather than anything fundamental to the Luty design. However, these days JStark is the new Philip Luty, there's an awful lot of FGC9s turning up in the hands of rebels in Burma, amongst other places.

He used a 1857 smith carbine, Luty and a slamfire shotgun. it jammed on him because he made his own smokeless powder which was very corrosive and dirty, or atleast that is what he said on stream.