coil gun

[country gent]

Just watched a you tube video on a coil gun being made for civilian sales. Uses a power tool battery and 5/16 steel dowel pins for projectiles. Video can be found at Accu Flash labs.

While more in the pellet gun range of energy its technology and performance could improve fast.

[Winger Ed.]

That really stresses me out.

Now I have to decide to save up and get it first, or the flame thrower.

[armoredman]

Get both, mount the flamethrower alongside the coil gun like Ripley did.

[GregLaROCHE]

And I thought this was going to be about the Daisy BB gun.

[ebb]

If its the same one that Forgoten Weapons did the report on, you could get a friend and a catcher's mitt to catch the 5/16s pins for reuse.

[Kosh75287]

Too heavy, too expensive, too underpowered. BUT, with improvements in technology...
BTW, I found info at ARCFLASH labs:
https://arcflashlabs.com/

[MaryB]

Search YouTube for railgun, there are some out there that will put a projectile thru a car door. Big, bulky, power supply is not portable, the currents involved are scary and dangerous... when they blow up welding cable...

[Bmi48219]

Coil guns may not be practical yet, but they will be.
We’ll know they’re close when the BATF ‘re-defines the term firearm to include them.

[MaryB]

Watch this test, his later tests he used a lot of bolts instead of clamps

https://youtu.be/vAs9EHtKfVc?t=180

[MaryB]

And another test with better connections, it penetrated a car door skin with a blunt aluminum projectile, if that was swapped to tungsten core inside aluminum???

https://youtu.be/KMT97bqaOdM?t=76