Idea #2: with conventional cartridges, you can use a setup similar to the Dardick handgun above but without "Trounds". Simply make make it belt-fed, just a short belt. And just go from there, regular revolver with no/minimal barrel

Can do. Just not legally.

Well, I can't, anyways.

laws are entirely dependant on what country you're even in, I wasn't even taking that into consideration, only looking at the practical aspects

No, I meant I can't (legally) *make* one

There are a few reasons why Gyrojets never made it on the open market Cwow.

The concept totally works

In practice, Gyrojets never have sufficient accuracy for effective use in the field and never have effective terminal ballistic effect in most engagements.

and they're fairly expensive... I know

Orders of magnatude expensive compared to traditional rounds

ye

Now if you were to go about making a Anti-Material Rifle using Gyrojets that would better fit the performance profile of the round better

now, the original gyrojet were made in the 60's, so I'm sure some improvements could be made there

and accuracy isn't a huge issue for a gun made to not be significantly larger than a magazine, you won't have room for proper sights on the thing

the main concerns seems like price and the issue of terminal ballistics at the only range where something like this would be practical - very short range

In the inner ranges where accuracy is not a problem you have the problem of not enough velocity.

so I'm probably more in favor of a belt-fed revolver-like

surely we have better propellant solutions than in the 60's?

I don't know if anyone has experimented with gyrojet since then

One report stated that a soldier testing the Gyrojet pistol was shot in the leg at a range of six inches, and only suffered bruising.

It's a fundimental problem Cwow, becuse it is a rocket, in the first few feet of travel it is still working on over coming inertia.

clearly what we need to do is turn each shot into a micro-missile guided by your slick 2040's augmented-reality shades

You would actually be better off with a bunch of nails and a .22 blank gun luanching them.

yeah but you can't fire .22 blanks and nails straight out of the magazine without worry, which is the only reason I went with gyroc as a potential way to do it

I think we could make a harmonica system for this pretty easy

https://www.lowes.com/pd/DEWALT-Single-Shot-Powder-Actuated-Hammer-Tool/50200049

Here we go

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Manual-nail-guns-Cement-Steel-nail-gun-nail-gun-semi-automatic-masonry-nail-gun-nailing-machine/32788804824.html

That's just a staple gun though, with nails instead of staples
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/411Ee2SCyEL._SX425_.jpg

It is a .22blank powered staple gun. And as far as a self defense weapon, with an impact hammer initiation it becames a powerful contact distance system

Then where do the .22 blanks go? Why do you need to hit the thing with an actual hammer with what looks like decent amounts of force?

The nails themselves are the standard glued together ones you get for almost all smaller e.g. pneumatic nailguns, same deal as staples

Those are some cheep ones i found with a quick search. they have them were it is the hammer.

How compact can you make that, though?

They have them where you load up a harmonica and load that and get whacking. it is about the size of a standard hammer

How so they cycle?

Click ratchet system. Each time you compress the hammer into the firing possition, the release pull the next chamber in the harmonica into place.

O I C

look up for NRA Gun Gurus

they post weird stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdW8Trh_MGg