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So I like myself a bit of history, and guns have certainly had an interesting progression. From the 1400's to the 1630's the gun didn't really change all that much. That's over 200 years of it being pretty much the same with the exception of how the powder was ignited. Even then the change wasn't really all that big, being the introduction of percussion caps to ignite the powder instead of flints. And that went on until the early 1800's. I don't think it was until like the 1840's that we actually had pin fired cartridges. From then on though guns pretty much took off. If you look at the last 150 years compared to the first 400 years the progress is amazing. We go to repeating rifles, revolving pistols, gatling, and then semi auto's machine guns automatic rifles. Fire arms technology really exploded. But in just the passed 60 years fire arms don't seem to have changed very much. So I was wondering. Where do you guys think fire arms will be in the next 150 years? You think the fire arms tech has passed its revolutionary period and well go back to the slow and steady advancement it started with, or do you think we are just around the corner from another technological leap in fire arms tech. And if so what do you think that leap will be? (The XCR although impressive is not the answer I'm looking for
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