Will there ever be another innovation in handgun design as revolutionary as the Glock again?
Will there ever be another innovation in handgun design as revolutionary as the Glock again?
Will there ever be another innovation in handgun design as revolutionary as the Glock again?
In what way was the Glock innovative?
What the frick?
at some point OP they will make a taser that isnt dogshit , and when it comes out it will be as big of a deal as the first glock
what makes a taser dogshit?
what?
polymer framed striker fired design
>what makes a taser dogshit
the fact that it doesnt work most of the time its used
why doesn't it work?
The barbs don't reliably stick in the target even if you manage to hit. If they wear anything heavier than a t-shirt they can fail to penetrate skin deeply enough to deliver current, and even just the wind billowing the shirt out or the target just pulling their shirt taught away from their body can stop the barbs from sticking. And even when you get them stuck the effectiveness depends entirely on the target case by case. It could literally kill them immediately or barely tickle them. Overall they're just generally terrible.
>It could literally kill them immediately or barely tickle them
This. Something that would stop a big guy would be extremely painful for you.
he's wondering why you would tase a man before throwing him out of the plane
But anon, HK had the first polymer striker handgun.
It didn’t take off
Ya we know, but OP didn't say popular. He said innovative. Hk was innovative, glock just took their idea and made it not shit. It's extremely common the innovator doesn't make the money. Look at FB vs MySpace or yahoo vs Google.
Yeah, look at reddit vs its succesor, PrepHole.
okay pretend I said VP70 instead of glock
>Will there ever be another innovation
No. The age of innovations is over. Current demographic trends in developed countries - low fertility, aging populations - do not allow us to make significant progress in weapon science. In a few decades we will reach the limits of progress, after that things will slowly go downhill, technology will primitivize, at that point it would become more important to preserve what we've already achieved, not to develop further.
Just like we had polymer rifles before pistols, any truly great leaps in design will be developed and perfected first on big guns, then long guns before they make their way to handguns. Aimbots, active recoil control, reliable caseless and electronically ignited ammo, and eventually mass accelerated projectiles.
The innovation glock brought to the table wasn't the design, it was the manufacturing technique and materials, so yeah we'll see it again eventually, probably not soon though because material science needs to advance significantly to make a better gun OR an energy weapon feasible
As a hammer fired enjoyer, I'm quite find of that funky upside down hammer thing thats name escapes me at the moment. A shame it's so boutique that it's practically unobtainium, both for price and availability. Hopefully we see more like it come out, I would love to get my hands on something along those lines.
Laugo Alien?
This. Sights don't move. Low reciprocating mass. Super low bore axis. All without sacrificing any of the ergonomics of modern pistol design.
None of that is new, match target pistols were doing that well before the Alien was invented.
there's plenty of innovation, but none of it is for the common man. VP70, $1500 new. Laugo alien, five fricking thousand dollars. There's innovation everywhere, but none of it is practical. I hated glocks, but the man made his innovations so simple that the rest of the world was able to say, "fricking DUH" and here I am with three different glocks in three different configurations and origins and I've come to love the little shits. here's one of them, easily my favorite mostly because I made the damn thing, but also because I could make it functional and last more than a thousand rounds with almost no prior knowledge of the processes necessary, it's just that. fricking. simple.
The Hillary Hole!