What is the Gauss Gun???
Who what when where how

Anybody have any info or pics

Ho, forget about it.

Very interesting, updating the page seemed to be a little slow. Looks like 3 of us got the same gauss gun

Thanks for the info everyone

I'm personally fond to the FN/FAL, and the AR.

Watch the movie "Eraser"...they do a good job with it, hehe....

So what? A Gauss gun/Coil gun is a gun that fires a bullet by using an electromagnetic field produced by running current through wires wrapped around something to propel the bullet forward and into the target?

So its the same thing as railgun? :O

Originally posted by Outtis
So its the same thing as railgun? :O

Was his namo. You ask...and the google master shall find it for you. I don't understand why people just don't...hrmmm......Google themselves...sounds kind of fun...harhar.

nice(i guess) but...how does it work, what does it do? kinda what the other guy said.

nope a gauss and rail are different a rail gun uses and em field and gauss rifle shoot a huge chunk of metal ball out using high powered powder didnt you guys play mechwarrior...

naw. Gauss and Rail guns are the same. And yes I do play Mech Warrior, Battletech etc. LOL

My bro made a coil gun. It wasn't extremely powerful but it could shoot a nail 25 feet across a room and stick into a hard wooden board. Pretty cool actually.

Originally posted by omega1
What is the Gauss Gun???
Who what when where how

Anybody have any info or pics

It's been stated before, but a gauss gun and a rail gun are essentially the same thing. Both use electromagnetic energy to propell an object into a ballistic trajectory. The theory has been around as long as we've made electromagnets.

The term Gauss comes from a german mathematician Johann Gauss who used math to determine the existence of celestial bodies by the deflection caused on other celestial bodies, hence proving gravitation pull of planets.

Rail guns get their name from the actual system of rails with electromagnets set in stages along the length of the rails.

As superior powerplants come online you'll see more of this technology as a way of boosting things into orbit or onto an unsuspecting neighbor, or to shoot things down.

Man portable versions are some time away. (the portable power source dicotomy)

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