| correction: Plastic firearms are useless and they always will be. A plastic firearm is the same thing as holding a cartridge in a pair of pliers and hitting it with a rock. Rifling in a plastic firearm that fires metal projectiles shows how stupid this exercise is. For rifling to spin a projectile, it must be harder than said projectile, and cut into it forcing it to spin. eg bullets are made of lead or copper and are fired through tempered steel. The first liberator zip guns that the OSS dropped in France in the 40s were a psy op. They were never used to injure "the enemy". Most armed government employees -- the presumed intended targets for these dangerous toys -- wear a spectra vest with a metal strike plate the makes plastic and wood projectiles harmless. I guess if one were to use a taser to disable an opponent, then they could hold one of these roman candles to the temple of their victim, and if the plastic gun didn't explode in the shooter's face it would seriously harm the victim. A simple metal pipe, while not rifled, is vastly superior to plastic guns with one inch barrels because the propellant actually has a chance to burn and generate force. These plastic guns do not contain the force of the propellant and transfer it to the projectile. These plastic gun affectionatos are an embarrassment to the intelligent readers of HN. |