Message from @Paladin308
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easier, no need for a gas piston
no need for super finely toleranced systems designed to release the locking at the exact right time off of gas pressure alone
that take years to perfect
You're replacing one simple mechanical piece with several more complicated electromechanical assemblies
That is not a net benefit
its maybe two moving parts
little locks on either side of the bolt that extend and retract
Modern gas operation systems do not require years to perfect, that work is already done
insofar as you arent making a new gun at that point
Why reinvent the wheel?
either there is a fair bit of fiddling to do as your particular gas system is refined
or its another ar-15 derivative
well because potentially it would be cheaper
to have something that doesnt need these super toleranced parts
even the g3 needs a huge amount of machine work to make it precisely enough for it to run right
Have you seen how cheap AR15s are now?
on the order of hundreds of bucks
The tight tolerances aren't in the gas system
They're in the locking system
Regardless of how you unlock and cycle the action, you still need those tight tolerances in the locking system
i mean thats kindof objectively not always true
computerized control has made a lot of things cheaper
It's true enough
because its way less effort to make it work right
you just tell the machine what you want and it does it
Computer control only works in the first place because of economies of scale
in terms of timing and such thats a fairly good deal
yes and you can use the same sorts of parts
everywhere
because they are pretty general purpose transformers of input into arbitrary output
you dont need a new computer for every application generally speaking
and a whole huge assembly line
Thing is, minimum an electronically controlled firearm requires pressure sensors in the barrel, actuators to unlock, some sort of battery and charging system, and a processor
you could probably do it off of timing alone, but pressure sensing is just a transducer
A gas system does all the same stuff with a few simple mechanical components
Again, it's not about what's possible, it's about what it does *better*
i mean in a lot of cases the whole (generally carefully tuned) gas system is purely to drive the unlocking timing
based more or less off of when the trigger was pulled
Not necessarily
its not like it actually understands the pressure of the system