Darren New wrote:
> True. But to get the electrical propultion to work, the projectile needs 
> to be pretty small, which means it needs to go pretty fast. Otherwise 
> it's more of a thrower than a firearm. :-)

A railgun is exactly that - a thrower. A firearm uses chemical reactions 
to provide impulse.

You would never use one as a portable antipersonnel weapon anyway, it's 
probably more useful as a large scale space-based anti-ship or 
planet-busting weapon.

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