Self aiming gun

too easy. no fun. no skill. no compition.

Stevie Wonder can finally defend himself.

Strange how they never once mentioned shooting an actual person.

Definitely has it's moral issues. I know a lot of people think they have the right to be able to shoot whatever they want, but if an untrained person can kill someone at that distance, that will make it seemingly way too easy, and too hard to catch. I would imagine anyway.

this is stupid

i want to work there. fucking rad.

once the longest confirmed kill records start being shattered by a significant margin I'll be impressed. It's cool to get a 1-2 foot grouping at 1000 yards, but I'd like to see that being used in a wartime situation getting kills at 2,700 yards ++.

Oooh, I hope this is included in the Skynet fall collection next year!

I use sentry guns that are better than this in cod all the time. I'm not impressed.

guns are out of control in this country....what have we done

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Guns were invented to make killing easier, so I think it's a great idea. They weren't originally made to be fun.

why

The original self aiming gun:

You should get one.

I own one. I guess I'm a really lousy shot.

the man has a point...

cool technology for sure, but definitely could have some repercussions

They keep touting it as a hunting/sport development, which is a little bit BS. I'm not a hunter or a gun owner, but I do like shooting inanimate objects from time to time, and I feel like I'd quickly get bored with that gun. The thing that makes any sport fun is pushing the envelope of your current skill level. If that gun could make me a great shooter from 1000 yards, I'd want to start shooting things from 1500 or 2000 yards - effectively making the computing power of the gun useless and placing the skill back on myself.

There will obviously always be the bucket-list people for which this weapon is a great development - non-hunters who want to go and pay a bunch of money to kill an antelope from 1000 yards to say they've done it. These are the same types that pay tons of money to go sport fishing once or pay a glorified sherpa to short-rope them up an eight-thousander. I get it, there's money to be made there.

The real development of course is in the military arena. These guys claim this gun could be the end of two man sniper teams. But the fact that this gun isn't A: illegal or B: on every single military weapon means that it's either unreliable in combat environments, or WILDLY too expensive, or it's secretly been part of military technology for years and the technology is finally making its way to the consumer market. My bet is on the latter.

Definitely don't agree with that. Just because there's a new development in a sport doesn't mean the essence of the sport is lost. The self-aiming gun just fixes one of the common problems people run into while hunting: hitting their target. Saying that this self-aiming gun is BS in terms of progress in the sport is like saying that the development of rockered skis is BS in terms of advancing the sport of skiing. The hardest part of hunting is usually finding game and getting in position to shoot the game, not hitting the target. Most people who hunt practice shooting enough to the point where hitting a deer from 200yds is easy. I went shooting with some friends last week and one of them who shoots a lot is able to put 5/5 rounds into a soda can from 80yds with a .22 using iron sights, and he told me that he's not even that good with respect to Marine Corps standards (he's a marine). Bottom line is that the foundation of any sport is pushing the limits. The self aiming gun will allow shooters to push limits and is inherently valuable.

Good luck shooting this guy:

I'm not saying that it's BS in terms of progressing the sport, I'm just saying that it's BS that they're claiming that hunting and sports shooting is actually their target market. There just aren't a ton of hunters who are taking shots from 1000+ yards. And I agree that the foundation of any sport is pushing the limits, so to that regard there are VERY few hunters taking shots from 1500-2000 yards.

Who else would it be? The military? I doubt they're gonna equip every soldier with a $15+k gun with complex electronics that may or may not function in extreme conditions. Most soldiers are never going to engage past a few hundred yards either. A .223 round from an M16 isn't lethal from much farther. I guess they could give them to marksmen/sharpshooters, but I don't think they'll be used extensively unless the technology advances significantly and the cost is cut dramatically.

what?

at 500 yards you're still packing a punch in the 300-400 ft.lbf range. that's more than adequate to kill a human. that's about the same as the muzzle energy of a 9mm round. At 1000 yards it's the energy of a .22, which is still plenty to kill a human if you hit them in the right spot.

And no, the military won't equip their soldiers with them since they can get better results from a well trained sniper. And very few people will buy them for hunting since it does ruin some of the fun and costs far too much. There isn't really a market for it at present until it can get kills at 3+ km, but it's still a cool concept.

You're right. I was misinformed. Still don't think the military is going to use this gun though hahahaha