What do you do when you turn 54 and start to feel old? Get yourself to a gun range, get a submachine gun and start firing rounds at a rate of $62,000/hour:
Fortunately, logistics proved no problem. This is America. By federal law, there must be a machine-gun firing range within a 10-minute Hummer drive of any major intersection.
For the record, I know a lot about guns, but have never fired one.
Wrestle the barrel ?
n1vux on 2005-11-03T18:46:20
The original (RTFA) article is worth a look, if only for the cartoon of Tweetie Bird locked-and-loaded, rockin'-and-rollin' on full auto. But it's also really a nice piece of ironic self-deprecation, mocking American "gun culture" while having a little guilty pleasure (and subsidized by writing the article!) -- which irony should be obvious from the title:subtitle "Spray It, Don't Say It / A guy's guide to communication" -- but written with light enough irony so that the macho guys may not notice and may enjoy it too.But since this is a technoblog, I need to comment on the appallingly old technology.
:-) "All you can do is wrestle desperately to keep the barrel down against a ferocious upward kick."
How last-century! (Or even 1896.) The H&K MP5 (that name sounds more like a music format than a fearsome weapon) has only minor ergonomic improvements from the 1927 Tommmie gun of nearly 80 years ago, and is recognizably derived from the Mauser C96 patented 110 years ago. They all walk up and to the side on full-auto
... which is one reason 3-round-burst-mode is preferred by the military in most situations. (Of course the exceptions are important.) The prototype for a new generation of submachineguns (SMGs) is described as looking like a "cross [between] a car wash spray nozzle [and] a Thompson submachine gun
... [I]n addition to reducing felt recoil and muzzle rise on full-auto, the KRISS's unique design... reduces weapon weight by as much as 50%. The total number of parts (including moving parts) is supposed to also be lower[.]". But they're not in production yet, so while you can watch on-line demos, your local renta-range doesn't have them yet.
