THE FUTURE IS NOW, OLD MAN
As I finish up the copy for this article, painstakingly written in longhand for my typesetter to lay out on the Linotype machine, I’m contemplating hitching up the old horse and buggy to take a trip down to the telegraph office to let my team know of the wonders of the technological age that is soon to be upon us.
Can you think of any other realm of human endeavor that’s still stuck in the late 19th century? Me neither.
The firearm industry can charitably be described as a mature technology. There’s a case to be made that the last time we really saw game-changing innovation was when Borchardt first managed to make a handgun load metallic cartridges from a magazine. In 1893
Since then, manufacturers have pretty much stuck to the same old tune, with brieflived excursions into evolutionary dead-ends such as the Gyrojet: After all, why change something that ain’t broke? Which is why we don’t have laptops or smartphones, or basic family sedans that’ll top a buck-fifty. Oh wait, we do. So why the blue f@ck are we still using guns and ammo from the second Cleveland administration?
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