Comments by "Baneofbanes" (@baneofbanes) on "Q&A 52: Sam Colt was a Jerk, the NGSW will not be Adopted, and German WW1 Wunderwaffe" video.

Wood rots, steel rusts. A modern polymer rifle if kept in the same conditions of as a wood and steel rifle will last just as long. So yes they will be around. There are M16’s that are over 50 years old that are still in great condition despite being still in combat use. Polymer isn’t that fragile.
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William Mulvaney So does wood and steel.
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William Mulvaney And yet the Taliban is doing just fine without air support.
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William Mulvaney Don’t see what that has to do with the fact that infantry and small arms aren’t obsolete.
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@petebeatminister I get you 500 years from now there will still be as many, if not more, polymer rifles from the 20th and 21st century as there are rifles from the 15th and 16th centuries. Just because you’re ignorant doesnt make your ignorance worth anything. Wood and steel don’t last forever. The weapons preserved from 500 years ago are the exception, not the rule. Most of them have long since rotted and rusted away. The only “argument” you have is your bias.
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@petebeatminister You don’t have an actual argument man. Sorry. Yes polymer degree, but so does wood and steel. Those 500 year old firearms didn’t serve buried in a field or in some attic, but where preserved, and modern fire arms will likely last just as long if preserved in the same conditions.
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Or maybe they went with an over powered handgun round that wasn’t really needed, considering 9mm has been sued by countless law enforcement agencies and militaries for decades to satisfactory results. If a “little girl” is able to better use a 9mm over some over powered 10mm cartridge than that’s preferable to her not being able to sue a gun at all.
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@johnburnett5377 The round is over a hundred years old and it’s popularity has only soared since it’s invention.
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@johnburnett5377 Does tend to point towards being good enough. And something being dropped from use tends to point towards it not being the best either.
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William Mulvaney Not really. The American creation myth lies in the deification of the revolution and the founders. We literally depict Washington as a God in the rotunda of the Capitol.
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1: They may not have been used on a World War scale war, but neither where Wild West or Civil War weapons, the wars they where fought with being comparable in scale to the proxy wars of the Cold War and today, yet they where still immensely popular to collectors. 2: That’s a better point about future gun laws. They’re probably only going to get stricter.
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