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Government intervention in small arms development
« on: February 28, 2016, 06:25:16 PM »
The following article proposes that government should do more to fund R&D in small arms.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/02/27/can-break-small-arms-plateau/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2016, 06:55:47 PM »
More then announcing trials for new rifles and pistols every other year, then never having them when a whole new set of weapons are designed?

What should they do, subsidize small arms like corn?

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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2016, 07:14:22 PM »
Yeah that's how you end up with bad designs.  Allow the free market to compete and let the companies do their own R&D
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2016, 07:49:09 PM »
The government will manage small arms development the way it manages the space program.

Note that politics downed two shuttles and ended (hopefully just for a while) America's manned space flight capability.

But NASA has diversity and EEOC compliance!!!!
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2016, 08:44:59 PM »


But NASA has diversity and EEOC compliance!!!!

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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2016, 09:03:30 PM »
Yeah that's how you end up with bad designs.  Allow the free market to compete and let the companies do their own R&D

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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2016, 09:23:25 PM »
Joking aside, gunpowder driven small arms is pretty mature tech at this point.  I don't think you are going to see anything put small incremental tweaks until we completely change to something else.  Something as revolutionary as brass cartridges was.  Dunno what that'll look like, but it'll be pretty cool.

If, however, you want to know whether the government or industry drive development in this sector better, I invite you to look at the period between 1970 or so and 2004, when we went from the M16 to the M16A2, or the CAR-15 to the M4. The G3 went to the HK33 and the MP5. The FAL went to ....The FAL I guess. We did get the AUG and P90 in there. Then compare that with the small arms that have entered the market from 2004 until now. SCAR, AR-lego kits, Tavor, MDR, RDB, RFB, ACR, Scorpion EVO 3, hell who knows how many others are floating around gunbroker.

Now what happened around 2004?

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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2016, 09:29:03 PM »
So we now want the government funded smart guns?  ???
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2016, 09:30:57 PM »
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2016, 09:54:59 PM »
Easy, rescind the Hughes amendment and open the registry.  Done.
If there was a civilian market for real select fire...done.

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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #10 on: February 29, 2016, 02:08:22 PM »
Easy, rescind the Hughes amendment and open the registry.  Done.
If there was a civilian market for real select fire...done.

I'd go much further than that, but that goes without saying...

Magpul (and many others in the small startup private side) have put out more useful innovation and improvements than the fat, happy, government fed companies like colt in the last decade, and that's without even touching the basic design of the ar-15 rifle.
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #11 on: February 29, 2016, 03:25:45 PM »
It's a gun, not a moon rocket.


Until you procure 500,000 of a new one to fight a war, but the design sucks and they jam in the field and take decades to get the design to work right.
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #12 on: February 29, 2016, 03:34:29 PM »
Fifty years of progress and I'm still using dental tools to scrape a robot's anus.

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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #13 on: February 29, 2016, 05:22:41 PM »
Fifty years of progress and I'm still using dental tools to scrape a robot's anus.
Having a rifle pissed on will fix that mess.
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #14 on: February 29, 2016, 05:44:04 PM »
Im an android not a robot and leave my butt out of this.
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Re: Government intervention in small arms development
« Reply #15 on: February 29, 2016, 06:00:15 PM »
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Do we really need any more large-frame 9mm service pistols? Because that's how you get more large-frame 9mm service pistols.....
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