“State-owned arms maker China South Industries Group (CSGC) has launched footage of its electromagnetic coil gun,” Attention-grabbing Engineering claimed Sunday. “Allegedly able to firing 3,000 rounds per minute, the prototype represents a serious technical leap in transportable directed-energy weaponry.”
“Transportable”? So, they’re not speaking about some rail gun prototype designed to be mounted on a ship or different mounted army platform?
“This weapon debuts just some years after one other Chinese language coil gun, the CS/LW21, was unveiled in 2023,” the report elaborates. “One other handheld electromagnetic coil gun, the CS/LW21 was developed by China North Industries Group (Norinco) for riot management and non-lethal use.”
So, it’s “handheld,” and per the report, “Far surpasses the AK-47.” It could possibly serve makes use of “from crowd management to militarization,” with “adjustable lethality, making it ultimate for ‘covert missions’,” that means “the gun might transition to deadly battlefield roles (e.g., drones, automated turrets, or infantry weapons).”
That’s cool. So, how quickly will or not it’s out there to “We the Folks”?
“This bullpup gun makes use of cash as bullets,” a two-year-old video accompanying the story explains. “It’s completely authorized as a result of there is no such thing as a gunpowder, and the output energy is proscribed.”
That will even make it outdoors the purview of ATF. Clearly, whoever presumed “whole” legality didn’t have in mind the Democrat mania for citizen disarmament. And the output energy will be elevated. Let this stuff hit the market and watch how briskly calls for to “Shut the rail gun loophole” translate into regulatory oversight and outright bans on civilian possession. Aside from the “Solely Ones,” in fact.
And what concerning the Second Modification? They’re arms, in spite of everything.
That is the place our “gun rights leaders” could have painted us right into a nook, by seizing on the factors of being “in widespread use on the time” as the usual to find out if a gun ban violates the Second Modification. It was by no means meant as a recognition contest.
Since no innovation ever begins “in widespread use,” a authorities with the ability to take action can ban all new weapon developments from these they might rule, retaining them solely for itself. Keep in mind the core objective of the Second Modification. To argue the Founders thought sending an outmatched yeomanry to their slaughter can be “essential to the safety of a free State” is insane.
It’s what I warned about after I wrote “Issues to Come” again in 2002 for Weapons and Ammo:
“It’s been mentioned {that a} battle isn’t gained till a person with a rifle occupies the bottom. We should take into account that somebody most likely as soon as mentioned the identical factor about spears.”
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of a number of journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun proprietor rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The Battle on Weapons: Notes from the Resistance,” is a recurrently featured contributor to Firearms Information, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Fb.
