This is a concept weapon from a sci-fi story I wrote long ago. It fills a niche that perhaps the PDW now fills. What the Buzzsaw is, is it's a compact, lightweight, highly controllable full-auto assault rifle with a very high rate of fire. It achieves its high rate of fire by firing caseless ammo, which means that there is no cycling breech or ejection port, and theoretically the gun cannot jam. It has a ported, ceramic barrel which cannot melt. It can accept regular 20- or 30-round box mags, or larger 100-round SAW-type mags, or it can be belt-fed via 250/500-round chest- or back-pack magazines.
I'm not sure about the caliber on this one. 7.62 x 39 mm would probably be too big and heavy, and 44 Magnum would characterize this weapon as something less than an assault rifle. Thus it would probably fire proprietary lightweight 44 caliber "subAssault" caseless bullets consisting of gas-filled explosive slugs with "NanoTech" propellant. The propellant would take up as much space as a cap does on today's bullets, and would adhere directly to the back of the metal round. These exploding pistol-caliber bullets would have tremendous stopping power and specific AP (anti-personnel) application (as opposed to armor-piercing, incendiary, etc.).
The BuzzSaw would have fore and aft pistol grips. A telescoping wire stock. Quick-switch ported ceramic barrels of different lengths. Iron or red dot sights. Designed to be fired on full-auto like either an assault rifle or a sub machine gun, it would be specifically designed to be used in running firefights to achieve overwhelming firepower superiority. Its extreme controllability -- due to its overall light weight, ported barrel, and compact ergonomic design -- would allow it to be accurately hip-fired, or fired on the run, or easily fired like a conventional rifle, while maintaining a tremendous rate of fire.
Oops, gotta run. It's bed time.
I'm not sure about the caliber on this one. 7.62 x 39 mm would probably be too big and heavy, and 44 Magnum would characterize this weapon as something less than an assault rifle. Thus it would probably fire proprietary lightweight 44 caliber "subAssault" caseless bullets consisting of gas-filled explosive slugs with "NanoTech" propellant. The propellant would take up as much space as a cap does on today's bullets, and would adhere directly to the back of the metal round. These exploding pistol-caliber bullets would have tremendous stopping power and specific AP (anti-personnel) application (as opposed to armor-piercing, incendiary, etc.).
The BuzzSaw would have fore and aft pistol grips. A telescoping wire stock. Quick-switch ported ceramic barrels of different lengths. Iron or red dot sights. Designed to be fired on full-auto like either an assault rifle or a sub machine gun, it would be specifically designed to be used in running firefights to achieve overwhelming firepower superiority. Its extreme controllability -- due to its overall light weight, ported barrel, and compact ergonomic design -- would allow it to be accurately hip-fired, or fired on the run, or easily fired like a conventional rifle, while maintaining a tremendous rate of fire.
Oops, gotta run. It's bed time.
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