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Bullet Curving: Get this crap out of my thread. Let me just make this clear right now. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE! Yes, we've all heard of the movie "Wanted" in which trained assassins adjusted their aim by slinging the gun when firing to curve the bullet. It is cheap movie theatrics much like everything Neo did in the Matrix.

Granted, some bullets travel more slowly than others. The slowest rounds travel at around 300 feet per second (not too far above the speed of a crossbow bolt), but speed isn't the trick here. Ballistic projectiles travel in the direction they are aimed by an application of force. The only way to adjust this is through gravity and wind. (Something Snipers have to keep in mind for those long range shots.)

Rifling is a neat little trick to increase accuracy by putting spin around the center axis of a bullet to allow it to fly faster and more on target by applying centrifugal force.

Curving a shot would only be possible with a round shot (like an air-soft pellet or paintball round) when incorporating a special barrel to create spin on a second axis and manipulate air resistance, however this doesn't utilize rifling which is designed to ensure a straighter shot. curving a shot in this manner would turn aiming into an exercise in guesswork. (Accuracy down)

Dual Wielding: The dual wielding gunman is susceptible to certain problems when doing so.

Reloading- your hands are full. You can't reload and shoot at once without some great juggling skills or until both guns are empty. Using said juggling skills, you now have to find a way to get fresh magazines into each gun and c**k them without free hands.
Note: do NOT try c**k the gun with your mouth unless you like burning your lips. You've been setting off gunpowder in that thing and it has many metal components, it gets hot.
If you are dual wielding revolvers, now you have to stick 12 (on average) individual magnum rounds into two cylinders instead of just six into one. Don't drop them.

Aiming- The reason we usually fire a single handgun with both hands is to steady our aim thus increasing the accuracy of the shot. Without that steadying factor now we have to deal with not only aiming in two different directions but attempting to remain steady firing with both weapons. This is particularly difficult.

Ammunition - Naturally, you will have to bring double the Magazines, or double the loose magnum bullets or shotgun shells. You're gonna need a bigger backpack, and a bigger budget.

Gun Kata: “The Gun Kata treats the gun as a total weapon. Each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents, while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire.” – Some guy in the movie Equilibrium.

In a nutshell it’s an imaginary martial art including the use of guns. Don’t get me wrong, it’s difficult to miss targets at close range like that, but that goes for all parties, and the first few fights in that film assume that the attackers are aiming for the head with perfect accuracy and precision even with automatic weapons which is impossible during autofire. It looks like most of the mobs in that film started firing AFTER Christian Bale's character did so their accuracy wouldn’t have mattered when they’re eating bullets for lunch anyway. Otherwise, that fancy white coat would have been blood red and full of holes. When you have multiple shooters from different angles, the spaces you would have to fit your body into get pretty small. All that shifting would have to be instantaneous.

Any military, law enforcement, and even those crazy guys at the gun range (LOOK AT THE HUMAN TARGET SHEETS THEY USE!) will tell you that the target is CENTER OF MASS. You don’t aim specifically for the head because it’s a fairly small target and difficult to aim for in heavy combat situations. Instead, you aim for the upper body. Plenty of vital organs in there that can constitute a one shot kill. That’s a different matter. For that last fight, I wonder why someone didn’t just kick the other guy and step back before firing. Or at least aim anywhere instead of going for a headshot. A headshot isn’t necessary at close range and the torso in general is an easy target. Well the reason this didn’t happen is because it’s meant for entertainment. If Christian bale’s character just walked in spraying bullets it would have saved us some time and cut down on entertainment.

There is a real game of Gun Kata called Gun Sau. It mimics the last fight in Equilibrium in an amateur hand to hand gun game.

There is no substitute for good cover in a gun fight. It’s your friend in the paintball battlefields. This is why even video games with guns as a focus are loaded with things to take cover on, and fairly new games like Gears of War and Army of Two allow a system to take cover and blind fire from cover.

For more information see Gun Fu.

Speed, Power, and accuracy: Something to take into account when using your piece. It's not some magical, "I can hold down the trigger and bullets kill the enemy." weapon. Part of what makes a gun quick is its design. More often than not, guns that fire heavier or higher velocity rounds tend to have greater recoil. This will reduce their speed for careful aim, and lower auto firing rates on automatics. Luckily, automatics don't have a massive variety of round types. Mostly just what was designed for that particular auto rifle or SMG.

On the note of speed, a common misconception about old school arrow projectiles is that they're infinitely dodgeable while bullets are not. Considering the speed on both, yes bullets on average travel faster and are more difficult to see but neither is effectively avoidable by sense and human or even animal reflex. Crossbow bolts at the velocity they travel are capable of puncturing a steel chestplate just like bullets can puncture Kevlar. Long story short, taking out a more complex projectile weapon for a less complex projectile weapon doesn't eliminate the danger of projectiles.

Trick Shots and Ricochet: ...are unreliable at best in live combat. Since muzzle velocity and bullet weight differs from bullet to bullet and from gun to gun, one would have to have been using the same type of gun and ammunition for decades to get even a small grasp on how a bullet will reflect off certain surfaces. Even with hard metal surfaces you're more likely to have the bullet just embed itself in the object. Reflecting one bullet off of another is nigh impossible. Even if they do connect, chances are each bullet is going to become deformed from the collision and spiral wildly off in some random direction.

Trick Reloading: For anyone who’s watched Grenadier: the Smiling Senshi, played Gears of War, (These are very small examples, this sort of thing is actually all over the place across games and anime.) don’t try fancy showmanship when reloading. Reloading any gun is actually a deceptively complex operation. You can’t just toss up some revolver rounds and expect them to fall comfortably into the cylinder and be ready to fire in an instant. It requires specific directional force to get a fresh magazine into your gun and to make sure it CLICKs into place, and with most guns you still have to draw back the slide to remove the last empty casing and ready a fresh bullet. First of all, you shouldn’t be showing off like this in the first place, you’ll get SHOT! Really any kind of showboating will get you shot. Now that you aren’t trying to impress anyone with reloading, do it out of sight and carefully. Haste makes waste.

Bringing a knife to a gunfight: Okay, I'm not going to lie to you. Fancy swords, polearms, melee weapons in general just won't cut it against an enemy who carries a FN P90. He's got portability, power, speed, and accuracy without having to move. The same thing can be said of any ballistic missile or magic spell. Range > Melee. It's just that simple.

All of this out of the way, the reason video and tabletop games are tuned the way they are, is to give the close combatants the chance they otherwise wouldn't have. However to be blunt, don't come in here and tell me that it takes more skill to use a sword effectively versus using a gun effectively. The proof that skill and knowledge is necessary for gun use is the whole point of this guide. On the matter of melee combatants, another reason for this guide is to add the point of "Why ostracize guns?" Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 has several instant death spells, some of which can be done from a distance, and one that the caster can leave behind as a trap. Some supplemental 3.5 rules contain spells that are not only instant death but make the target character un-ressurectable. Arrows are no easier to dodge than bullets in live combat at any range. So why turn a blind eye to ranged attacks in general just to complain about guns and explosives? You should be complaining about the guy who's dropping bolts of lightning on you more than the guy who's just firing a P2K blindly into the air.

Strong Sword, Weak Gun: A popular way to emphasize the power and efficiency of that fancy b*****d sword or that sleek katana is by having the wielder run around deflecting bullets with it or step out of the shadows and cut a gun in half to disarm an opponent. Cutting guns is another cheap theatrical trick to emphasize sharpness in a melee weapon. Steel doesn't cut through steel very well. If you don't believe me, take a butcher knife and try to slice through the large tongs in one cut. Production guns aren't cheap and aren't made from flimsy materials. If anything, a good heavy blunt weapon would be a better choice for both deflecting bullets and disabling firearms, but I digress, and bludgeons aren't very popular anyway.

The stronger the kick, the stronger the gun: This is actually incorrect. The effect of recoil is actually determined by a few factors. We already know that the discharge of casing powder sends the bullet out of the gun but also pushes back on the gun, well the gun obviously has its own weight. The point of propelling the bullet so quickly is to kill. The kick of the gun is actually more about how much power that charge is worth vs how heavy the gun is. Take the Pfeifer Zeliska .600 Nitro Express revolver, it is basically an elephant gun revolver, but the sort of discharge a .600 Nitro Express round creates shouldn't kick around a gun like this, it's about 13 pounds while empty. Your wrists will probably hate you, but not enough that you'll be kissing the hammer every time you fire. Again, this is the sort of gun you'd use to kill an elephant though. The real kicker is the hole it'll put in your bank account. It's a good $40 per bullet. Most of your firing kick in guns would actually come from those compact pocket guns that are no bigger than your hand but fire 9mm parabellum rounds. A lightweight compensator less gun is a bigger recoil hazard than a large weighted firearm. The situation there is just your inability to actually conceal the higher caliber magnums without looking suspicious.

What makes a gun stronger is stopping power, can it put bullets into a person's torso and keep them there (hollow points rounds are great for this). Ironically this calls for lower power and heavier grit rounds in unarmored targets.

Super Sawed-off Shotgun: The belief that a shotgun is stronger when the barrels and stock are sawed off (hence the name) than an unmodified shotgun of the same design. We’ve seen it in videogames, we’ve seen it in movies, but in the end this is false.

As covered later in this guide, shorter barrels can only reduce muzzle velocity. Very short shotgun barrels can increase spread pattern when using buckshot or birdshot shells and increase portability of the shotgun. Note that if you elect to load it with slugs you will see no benefit beyond portability. Modifying the weapon like this will reduce the efficiency of the weapon at longer ranges or even mid ranges (as wider spread makes it less likely for a large number of shot pellets to connect with the target) and increase recoil (especially since if the shotgun has a fixed stock, that often gets chopped off too making it even harder to keep steady.) Naturally, the buckshot or birdshot you use will be exposed to the energy of the discharged powder for a shorter amount of time. This may appear stronger, but only within shorter ranges where the shotgun was already very lethal to begin with.

On top of that, firing both barrels at once is only a good way to ruin your gun, your hands, arms, and chest.

The reasoning for shortening the barrel(s) is portability. In countries where a complete handgun might be more expensive, a sawed off shotgun might be almost as easy to conceal and somewhat cheaper.
The reason this is illegal is not due to power, but primarily because many countries with gun laws prohibit longarms that are unofficially modified to a certain point. If a longarm of any kind is cut down below certain barrel lengths and total lengths minimum, they become illegal weapons. In all likelihood you’d be breaking the law for something in which a handgun would serve a better and legal purpose.

Aiming and firing: Lining up shots takes time. A skilled marksman will calm their nerves and steady their weapon, lining up their sights with their target before pulling the trigger. Some can do this more quickly than others, but none can do it effectively in an instant.

Since we aren't imagining our characters at the computer pointing and clicking, squeezing the trigger is a much different step. Firing a gun takes strength and solid nerves. Keeping the gun as steady as possible while firing is crucial to aiming. Being able to keep the gun pointed straight is crucial to firing again. The more the recoil throws your arms back, the more time it takes to line up another shot and aim. Don't drop the gun.

Firing again also requires action if the weapon isn't automatic or semi automatic. This will be further discussed in gun function.

Stance: Much like stances in martial arts provide for efficiency of movement for hand to hand combat, there are stances to provide efficiency in aiming and recoil control when using guns.

For handguns you have the Weaver stance, Modified Weaver (or Chapman stance) and Isoceles stance. What they have in common is that you don't lean away from the target in stance, and stand feet about shoulder width apart to set up a stable base to help you reduce sway when aiming. For details this video is a good place to start.

For Longarms one holds the fire arm to eye level, to measure the iron-sights. The stock is held against the shoulder (NOT THE JOINT ITSELF, BAD DAY FOR BALL & SOCKET) with the primary hand on the handle grip, and the off hand on the front grip or barrel grip. This steadies the firearm with the upper body. Longarms can be fired from:
Standing – Standing straight up with feet apart and non dominant foot forward, much like the Weaver stance.
Seated – Just like it says. Sitting on your but with legs crossed or knees up.
Kneeling – Kneeling on one knee particularly the dominant knee, not both. This makes for steadier shots when the clock is ticking and you don't have the opportunity to sit down or gete to prone.
Prone – laying flat with the body face down and arms up forward. this grants you stability from the ground and makes you a much more difficult target at longer ranges when firing at the cost of mobility.

This isn't to say gun combat is stiff and immobile, it certainly isn't. Proper stance is integral to steadying your aim and being able to adjust to moving targets comfortably. Being able to choose which stance to take effectively can make you more accurate, capable, comfortable, and mobile in active combat.

Barrel: Some guns have interchangeable barrels, varying lengths, and can be modded to chamber different types of rounds. Longer barrels tend to improve the effects of rifling (as long as your weapon isn’t smooth bore) and improve bullet rotation to keep your shots on target. Shorter barrels have their uses, mostly fixed in close quarters combat (CQC), keeping you on target for those closer areas while limiting your accuracy at ranges. People even saw off barrels on their shotguns to improve shot spread, though at a great cost to effective range.

Longer barrels can increase range and accuracy but in some cases at the cost of firing rate, and risk of jamming in automatic weapons. Shorter barrels will reduce range but may suit you better in close combat where you might need a smaller more streamlined weapon.

I don't advise modifying the barrel of anything yourself if it doesn't have known replaceable barrels. If you screw with the muzzle your accuracy will suffer.

Reloading: Reloading always takes time, whether it is sliding another magazine into the slot, sliding the individual bullets into the cylinder, or pushing the shells into the injection port. Keep in mind, reloading is when you are most vulnerable in a fire fight. Both hands are busy and you don't want to jam your gun with careless use.

Recoil: In short layman's terms. The kick you get when shooting a loaded gun. Remember Newton's Law of Conservation of Momentum? Anyway, a common note is higher muzzle velocities tend to produce more recoil. This is the momentum of the shot you just fired jerking back in your hands. Just be glad the same amount of force is only going into a bigger object and thanks to inertia yadda yadda yadda, at least your gun isn't going to fly through your face and kill you. No, this does not go away with auto-fire. In fact full auto is going to make you less accurate as you continue to hold down the trigger. We like to call it, spray and pray.
The exception being the Ingram Mac-10. it has no barrel so really no matter how long or short you fire it, you're praying.


With bigger guns, you have to resist the momentum of a larger object. Again, don't drop it. No amount of training will rid you of the effects of recoil either. It's simple physics. Now some people try to anticipate recoil, and this can actually be detrimental to your aiming, you might jerk and pull the trigger (There's a reason they say squeeze and not pull.) which is only going to worsen your ability to hold the gun steady.

It takes a certain amount of strength and stability to manage a gun's recoil effectively. Most gun nuts can handle a handgun's recoil as long as it isn't a magnum above .44 caliber. Somewhat fewer gun nuts can handle Shotguns and things like a S&W 500. People receive training on operation of SMGs and Assault rifles in military combat training. Even the strongest people need a mount for anything bigger than an assault rifle. Don't even bother with heavy weapons like a Gatling gun unless you have a mount.

Cleaning: Guns must be kept clean and maintained. Gun powder discharge and the effects of heat and repetitive motion wear parts out within the gun. At best this can cause jamming, at worst a part might break and render the gun useless until it is repaired.

Gun Function: Knowing how a gun works, and how it fires is crucial to being efficient with one. You don't want to be the idiot repeatedly pulling the trigger for that empty "click click click" even after you just loaded it right?

General:
Semiautomatic - Once locked and loaded, these weapons fire a single shot with a pull of the trigger. Some can fire as quickly as one can repeatedly pull the trigger. Normally these weapons are operated by the recoil and magazine design to inject the next round into the chamber as soon as the previous was fired and remain cocked and ready to fire.
Burst fire - this setting fires a spread of usually 3 bullets with a single trigger pull. This function is sometimes found in handguns but is far less common in them.
Automatic fire - Guns with this function continue to fire as long as the trigger is held down and there are ammunition reserves in the magazine or on the belt. This function is even less common in handguns but some do exist.

Pistols:
Manual - These types of pistols require the hammer to be cocked after every shot to eject the spent shell casing and inject a new unused bullet. They are fairly rare nowadays.

Revolvers:
Single action - These types of revolvers just like manual pistols require the hammer to be cocked (The cylinder usually rotates when the hammer is pulled back) before firing. For those who need to fire a number of revolver rounds in quick succession, there is a trick called Fanning in which the user takes one hand off the handle and uses it to flick the hammer after each shot to increase the rate of fire a great cost to accuracy.
Dual action - These revolvers rotate the cylinder and c**k the hammer after every shot, much like semi automatic pistols.

Shotguns and older era Longarms:
Break Action - These are your standard old school 12, 10, and 22 gauge double barrels (Or single), coach guns, shotguns, hunting rifles, elephant guns, etc. The chamber is folded open by a break (usually above the trigger) in the barrel and the shells are inserted by hand then the break is closed and the hammer is drawn back.
Lever/pump action - Commonly found in older repeater rifles and newer civilian rifles, these longarms are capable of carrying many rounds in an internal magazine to which one round is loaded into the chamber by lever/pump action after each shot, speeding up the rate of fire.

Sniper:
Bolt Action - Like lever action rifles, these rifles have a small switch (bolt) to eject an empty round and either insert a fresh one from the magazine or open the chamber to allow a new one to be inserted directly into the chamber.

Depending on the type of ammunition used, a bullet can enter with a hole only slightly larger than it is or with a hole much larger than that. The exit wound will usually be larger, and these are the bigger threat. That exit wound will destroy whole areas of body tissue and bone you might have preferred to keep. Heavier round types tend to deliver a more crushing impact and potentially shatter bones the bullet itself didn't touch. To be frank, you want to avoid even one bullet wound.

Now to break up another myth, shoulder and leg wounds are actually fairly serious. The shoulder has a rather delicate ball and socket joint system that can heal in ways that limit it greatly if damaged. Worst case scenario, an artificial shoulder. Either way, that arm will never be the same. There are some pretty important blood vessels in the thighs. A shot to one of them can actually cause a person to bleed out in minutes. If they do get medical attention in time, there's still the lasting damage of bone fracture and muscle destruction that might leave a person walking with a cane or worse.

Shotgun rounds tend to amplify this effect by putting various sizes of pellets into your body all at once. A shot like this to the torso isn't usually survivable. If it is, you'll be hooked up to machines for the rest of your life to make up for the organs that were obliterated.

I doubt I need to get into the effects of getting blown up.

Maximizing efficiency: Most gunslingers carry 2 to 4 guns at a time maximum. Guns like swords can be heavy and cumbersome so carrying needless weapons is only going to waste space and weigh you down. See the types of guns for their best applications and carry them accordingly for what ever RP you're entering. If you're not sure what will happen, Scope an H&K MP5 or carry a M4A1 (With SOPMOD kit) for primary weapon. For secondary, pack a USP, Glock, Beretta M92, or any decent ammo cap semiautomatic handgun.

Modern Warfare: Just so we’re clear, modern warfare demands order and efficiency for success. The battlefield isn’t a place where you can just one man army an entire battalion of enemies and come out unscathed. As they will teach in the military, efficient gun combat utilizes flanking and positioning, basically using what I discussed in Priority to effect to isolate, encircle, and extirpate the enemy forces. All this requires is good teamwork and good use of arms and tactics. A good close and balanced squad is more desirable than one exceedingly skilled gunman. And hey, role-plays are a multiplayer atmosphere. What better way to get all players involved than to get them putting their heads together and working as a team?

Mixing things up: Ok, fighting with sword and gun is going to be a bit awkward. Personally I would contend that you only need the gun. The common concept of empowering melee weapons was always done to make them a viable choice in a gun fight. This doesn't mean you're going to be able to overpower gun users. Being able to close the gap would require lots of cover and a careless gunman.

As a matter of fact, keep that combat knife in case all else fails. If you're of the stealthier type, you shouldn't be concerned with getting caught in a fire fight unless you suck.

Gunblades: Gunblades are an interesting concept. The bayonet has been rendered obsolete and a gun on its own will deliver plenty of bludgeoning power when used to melee. Having an intricate blade attached to your gun is going to add weight and effect recoil and accuracy like any other accessory. What compounds onto this is the fact that now you have a particularly sharp instrument to deal with when cleaning and now instead of just maintaining the working gun components, now you have a blade to keep sharpened.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do it. When both parts are used in tandem, you have a rather efficient melee weapon. You don't have to aim the gun to get the bullets into a target, and the impact from the gun discharge will resonate with the blade increasing damage.

Don't just pick one up and expect to be godlike with it. You'll get yourself blacklisted.

Futuristic guns: Some people try to explain away that futuristic energy weapons are also too cheap and generally unfair for RPs. Some things to take into account in a futuristic RP are:

1. There has been energy based armor devised specifically to counter energy guns.
2. Energy guns don't have infinite ammunition, if they don't recharge automatically, they may have battery packs similar to modern gun magazines.
3. Changing the type of ammunition may effect accuracy but only due to the general reduction in recoil and improved firing rate.
4. Heat can cripple the weapon, burn your hands (or much worse especially with plasma weapons.)

Scenario: Countering the Gunman without firearms.
These are a few tips for the construction worker, if you're faced with a crazy carbine toting lunatic and all you have is your work tools:
1. Take cover, and stay there!
2. Keep an "eye" on his movements. You may not be able to actually see him over your cover, and poking your head out isn't a good idea, but you can hear him. Listen for yelling, footsteps, and gunfire. The former two you can probably trace more easily.
3. Roadie run! Roadie running is a neat little trick to keep your head low and move quickly from cover to cover. The smaller and faster you are the more difficult you should be to hit. You don't want him to just walk around till he can see you
4. Don't rush him till he's distracted! You can hear if the gunfire stopped, he's fiddling with the magazine in the clip, the slide jams, or he's muttering curses. If he's fairly close, mantle up and knock the ******** down!
5. Get the gun away from his hands, and make sure he doesn't get to stand up again. Co-workers with some balls are helpful for this.

I won't lie. Chances of success are low, but if he's crazy enough to barge into the construction site firing into the air, he's probably shooting to kill anyway.

High Fantasy Magic and Chi: Well in the case of excessive magic high fantasy settings that include guns, basically a magic steampunk or magic cyberpunk setting, I'm sure you can come up with fancy Ki and Magic gun attacks. With willing suspension of disbelief, if you can channel energy into your sword for a powerful strike, or into an arrow you've knocked and are ready to fire, is adding it to a bullet that far of a stretch?

Saving you money: Bullet casings and magazines are reusable. Instead of leaving a mess of empty shells all over the floor, pick em up. You leave less evidence that way too. Great tip for snipers.

Bullet casings can also be sold to recycling plants for cash, and reloading plants for even more cash.

Need a silencer but are short on cash? It's possible to construct a homemade silencer with some PVC pipe and some mundane supplies. Just Google for the plans, you can find them anywhere. lol

Fantasy Gun Control: Since I had been grumbling about it over the course of this guide and ran into it as a hangup in an RP I've been active in recently.

Helmets: Wear a helmet. It's limited protection but something is better than nothing. Also your comms system should be in it.

Heavy artillery: I didn't bring up the M61 vulcan in detail for a good reason. If I include that, I would need to include the Mk.19 and 47 AGL series of automatic grenade launchers, Howitzers, Mortars, SAM sites, maybe I'll get to heavy weapons later, but the vehicles necessary to move such heavy equipment would call for a new guide.

I can't for the life of me think of a game that incorporates any AGLs at all. Maybe they figured such firepower would be game breaking. A machine gun that fires impact grenades will annihilate even convoys in seconds.

Gun Safety: I don't know why I didn't include this before. It's pretty important:
please always remember ten rules of gun safety!
Rule # 1. Treat all guns as if they are loaded. Always check the gun before handling.
Rule # 2. Never let the muzzle of a gun point at anything you do not want to destroy or kill - always point the gun in safe direction
Rule # 3. Keep your finger straight and off the trigger, unless you have aimed your gun and are ready to shoot.
Rule # 4. Be absolutely sure of your target, and what is behind it
Rule # 5. Be Familiar With Your Gun - get to know how it works and what it is capable of.
Rule # 6. Don't Shoot at Hard Surfaces - Things like dense metals and heavy objects can reflect shots in unintended directions
Rule # 7. Don't Rely on a Safety Mechanism - they aren't always reliable, and can be misread. refer to rule #2 for what to do.
Rule # 8. Load Your Gun When You Need to - If you aren't going to shoot, don't leave it loaded, minimize the potential for a misfire.
Rule # 9. Use the Right Ammo - find out the caliber and type of ammunition your gun uses and use only that for your gun
Rule # 10. Pay Attention! Don't get distracted and lose sight of these rules.


Reference: For guns you saw in your favorite movie or TV series, here's a link. This site includes many or possibly all of the guns you saw and may or may not have recognized the model, make and ammunition to. Credit to Lady Bern for the reference.

On your list of guntypes, don't forget the god of all guns, the Vulcan. It basically deserves a class of it's own. Though unless you have the money to buy one and supply all the ammo, a few crates full, I wouldn't reccomend it.


Also, you may want to add that for futuristic guns, Plasma-based and energy weapons are pretty much impossible without a ridiculously strong and heat resistant metal alloy, and something to keep your hand from being incinerated. More accurate for future weapons are just faster automatics, and more damaging, faster moving bullets.

I wouldn't ever dream of carrying that thing. It's best suited for Puff the Magic Dragon, or a boat, both of which it's most useful applications.

It's more than a machine gun, have you seen one of those in action? Vicious beast. When boating down the river in Vietnam, if they saw something move in the bush, they would take the Vulcan and mow down the trees. Nothing got out alive, evar. Puff would fly over and his Vulcans would take out a village or encampment before he got to the other side.