Gun Discussion

@Ebalosus
LMAO at that SCARling. Why would you use 556 with a 7.5 inch barrel when that cartridge was designed for 20 inches? .300 BLK exists, why not use it instead?

And SCAR’s bulk looks so silly in this form. Now I want to see Beretta ARX 160 pistol.

Why is the sideways hold so popular with street criminal types?

I admit it looks kinda cool but dude, I’d be just as equally scared for my life if you held it upright so why be all flashy for no reason?

The more pertinent question is “why would any self-respecting criminal use a Beretta chambered in .22lr?”

Unbullpuped FAMAS

@NitroFury
Used by one of the One Year War’s best mobile suit designs, piloted by one of the UC timeline’s Best Girls.

Speaking of bullpups:

Would a Bullpup SMG basically just be an a somewhat oversized Auto Pistol?

@Ebalosus
Are you speaking ill of the German clock gun?

@CaptainXtra
Nope.

Tao:

Tavor X95:

Douglass Recoilless:

PP-Bizon

Basically, it’s the AK47 meets the Tommy Gun.

Is there an Arrow Firing Gun that looks almost identical to a Rifle?

In other words, these things:

Coming out of something that looks like these:

Not a crossbow BTW:

So I guess what I’m asking here is…

I just heard that Walther is discontinuing the P99.

@CaptainXtra
Few years ago some company was presenting arrow guns at a gun show. Not sure what company it was and whether they released the gun to the market. You could try searching for it.

EDIT: I found it: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/01/22/shot-2019-an-arrow-firing-rifle/

SCAR-H Bullpup (Airsoft)

@Goku Black
I wonder if FB Radom is still making the P99. It is still listed on their page: https://fabrykabroni.pl/en/produkty/karabinki-sportowe/p99/

I think tjpones has been watching Forgotten Weapons.

TKB-408 (1946 Prototype)

@NitroFury
Korobov’s designs were something else.

I present this thing:

Howa Type 89 (Japan)

7.62x39mm, a big intermediate Russian round that is slow, but deals big damage

I notice an occasional trend in Shooter Games where Shotguns can be modified into dedicated Grenade Launchers and other crazy heavy cannon type weapons.

I also found this presentation which kinda reinforces that idea:

Are Shotguns actually the most mod-able long gun type IRL?

In terms of changing the core function of the base firearm entirely instead of adding attachments, the latter of which is the case with Rifles.

@CaptainXtra
The picture shows the M79 grenade launcher, not a modded shotgun. Its author probably wanted to say that you load it like a break-action shotgun.

Games have to balance weapons and make them fun. (Unless they are meant to be realistic military simulators.)

I haven’t heard of people modding shotguns into grenade launchers. But IIRC earlier in this thread someone linked a firework launcher, very similar to a grenade launcher, that was meant to be made from scratch. I guess it was easier to make it from scratch than to mod a shotgun.

This can’t be a good shooting posture for handguns.

I went to a gun show. Then I picked up a Smith & Wesson 686+.

Pictured is the 3” barrel model, similar to what I got.