I believe that it CAN be done, today, using current (pardon the pun) technology.
The switching power supply in your computer handles some large energy potentials and fields just to eliminate the need for a heavy iron transformer. It's not much of a stretch to projectile acceleration.
Someone will do it.
The next guy will hang two together and we will have an electromagnetic doublegun.
keith you should celebrate. How are they going to 'control' electric guns? Round up all the batteries, switches, and capacitors?
If it could be done, today, the military would already be doing it. If you know something they don't, you are wasting precious time here... time that would be better spent developing and patenting your process, and becoming fabulously wealthy.
I guess it could be my actual experience with linear motors (DC, stepper, linear actuators, and AC induction types) that makes me skeptical. Very heavy and very expensive are just the tip of the technological iceberg. The switching power supply in your computer doesn't "handle some large energy potentials and fields". It still uses transformers, and it simply provides an opto-isolated secondary low voltage DC from the typically 110 VAC input. Actually there is quite a large stretch between that and acceleration of a projectile (projectiles) for a shotgun... especially one that won't require a heavy extension cord to power a round of skeet. Wasn't it about 25 years ago that they told us room temperature superconductors were on the horizon? The military isn't even working on Jeep size rail guns yet, let alone shoulder fired versions. It may one day be done, but not with the technology we have now. And it still won't be any more relevant to the subject matter of this particular forum than hockey is.
Your final thought about "control" of the components for future electric guns is thought provoking though. I'd say the control aspect would be doable by using the exact same process being used and developed by the Liberal Left Democrats today. You would simply continue to promote the radical and insane idea that the Constitution is a "Living Document" that must change over time to accommodate the "Will of the Majority". Then you would promulgate a false narrative about the dangers of this new technology, and tell the masses that these aren't the kind of guns the Framers envisioned when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights. You would point out similar controls being enacted in other countries that never enjoyed the same kind of Constitutional Rights. Is any of this sounding familiar so far? Then you would simply infringe upon the Civil and Constitutional Rights of the law abiding for "the good of the people"... "if it will only save one life", and pass laws which violate both the 2nd Amendment and the 4th Amendment, and imprison anyone caught with electronic contraband. Of course, you would never stop those with criminal intent and no respect for the law, but you would eventually kill it for the law abiding citizen, and thus make it easier to control him in order to advance Socialism. Of course, in this futuristic world, you would have the progeny of our current crop of anti-gun trolls coming here and promoting the new laws and supporting the anti-electronic gunners... and denying that there is any anti-electronic gun sentiment being expressed here.
Instead of just bashing and lying about the NRA, they would be bashing the National Electric Code (NEC) as well! Thanks for asking!
