Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Arcflash Labs' EMG-01B Handheld Gauss Pistol" video.

@TheHylianBatman If you look at the parts-number reduction from the first full auto rifles to an AR and extrapolate from that you're not far off what a Gauss rifle could look like in 25 years (provided the capacitor tech keeps pace). The good thing about working with electricity and magnetic fields is that it can be computer controlled. Firearms have to be constructed to work with the worst case scenario of ammunition, as that is it's sole provider of mechanical energy. So while a Gauss rifle might have more parts in it many of them don't have to be as strong or as precise as their firearm counterpart, etc, etc. So it's pretty much a matter of "Now they're borderline of military utility" + "DARPA wants to grant (huge amount here) to have the current best design developed into a special forces weapon". Once that happens and a 100 engineers start tinkering with rapid prototyping and cutting down parts counts things will progress pretty rapidly.
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You just gotta love that Gun Jesus has posted a video on a prototype gun a mere 500 years before it became an actual "Forgotten weapon". If that's not caring about catalogue completeness I don't know what is! :P
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80 years ago a transistor was a big glass tube. Today you get 18 billion transistors in a top shelf gaming graphics card.
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@TheHylianBatman Computers can generally only be hacked if they are network enabled, or shut down if you have physical access. And it goes without saying that anything bad can happen to a regular firearm too if someone with malicious intend gets physical access. As for water proofing it: no problem. Professional divers have lots of electrical equipment that handles insane water pressures.
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