You think?

If that gun used Trounds it might actually be a workable design. Dardick Tround guns had both a magazine and revolving cylinder of sorts

The text implies that that it is unrelated to any actual firearms design in reality

Huh, that is a nifty concept, I remember seeing a gun in Ergo Proxy that is mostly a handle, that has the capacity & fire rate of a semi-auto pistol

I wondered if there is a to make a mechanism that compact that would allow it to work, something like a Luger:
http://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/luger-gif-1.gif

It could work as a simple blowback if you use a heavy spring

A revolver concept is another maybe with the images I see above images above, though of course it is one thing for something to work in concept & another in action.

hmm... you'd sacrifice much of what is normally magazine capacity , you're not getting more than a few rounds in there, so a revolver isn't an awful idea

oh

I thought you meant a regular revolver

Idea #1: gyrojet with electrical primer. These could more or less be fired straight out of a magazine and into a very short barrel. All you'd have to squeeze into the grip still is battery and it could fire as quickly as the capacitor can charge

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