metal storm guns where are you now?

[the running man]

The thread of safety guns and the future cased me to remember metal storm, does anyone recall this lot? http://www.metalstorm.com/IRM/content/home.html ithought Ii saw a pistol on TV once? What happened to that? G lock buy em out?

[Fedaykin]

Ahhhh Metal Storm:

Lots of venture capital
Lots of flashy presentations
Lots of flashy promo videos
Lots of appearances on "Weapon systems of the future" programs

In the end it didn't really add up to that practical of a weapon system, they never did sort out the issue of reloading it.

A footnote of weapons development history...

[Sandgroper]

Voluntary Administration I believe.

The ADF was going to purchase the 3GL luncher for their upgraded Steyrs but AFAIK it came to nothing.

[Tower75]

I thought there were plans to stick these on warships to act as 'goal keepers.'

Who knows, though. We're stagnant at the moment when it comes to firearm design. There'll need to be another 'propa war' to get people designing again.*

*Not that I'm advocating war just so I can get a fancy lasgun. I use an SMLE for gwad sake.

[the running man]

Anything else sir? "Phase plasma with 40 watt range" "hey just wat u see pal"

[the running man]

To be honest i thought they looked ok, u could do burst or 3 shot burst or single shots of which u had plenty there, i remember the sales guy reloading it, did not seem to take long......