By the time firearms are illegal laser guns will be the norm
Awwee yiss
>>35141897
What about railguns? I want to rip a hole in my enemies cheat, and his buddys', and maybe part of his capital.
I will never give up throwing metal downrange for them new-fangled light guns.
>>35142069
thats what rail guns will be for
>>35142069
Need mass to kick ass.
>>35142160
I dunno man, electrolasers sound pretty dope
>>35141897
>The founding fathers never could have envisioned phased-plasma rifles in the 40-watt range
>>35142160
Tha's right, brutha.
Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kilotomb bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's First Law?
First Recruit: Sir! A object in motion stays in motion, sir!
Gunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!
First Recruit: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!
Gunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this husk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!
Second Recruit: Sir, yes sir!
>tfw no Cricket yet