Materials engineering is the backbone of the firearms industry, but people rarely think about it. This is pretty neat.
thisguy
This is the SHOT stuff I'm interested in, not just a different suppressor thats 1% quieter and 20% more expensive than what was available five years ago.
opfor
Materials science is the realest innovation, everyone else just does the next logical step that was impossible without a better material.
saddlepiggy
Materials engineering is the boundary of science. I have to take a few of those classes and they’re no joke
ItsGubbinTime
I appreciate you spotlighting actual advances in technology over yet another Browning system pistol or AR
cyrusfreeman
It's kinda impressive you can get this clear a recording of your voice between other conversations, gunshots, and what sounds like a pretty strong wind.
scribejay
I’ve worked with Avient in a professional setting before. They are an interesting materials company…. It is very nice to see that they are involved in this kind of product.
johnnydoe
Now imagine that in a polymer ceramic carbide composite. Light weight and will take forever to overheat
PromethiaSHADOW
It really does seem like SHOT is actually presenting real innovation this year. The last few years there really didn’t seem to be much going on that was genuinely new, so I’m pleasantly surprised with everything coming out of it this year.
evan
That's a nice thing to know. Thank you for your knowledge.
And for keeping me aware
VinceBearinger
A friend of mine has a 9mm race gun, sig sauer p320 m17 with tungsten impregnated polymer lower, tungsten guide rod and tungsten weights inside the gun in various places, bull barrel, it's heavy af and accurate like no other gun I've shot
bonlappen
I have a vending machine company and we have a few machines in the break rooms at Avient. They take their secrets seriously, it’s one of the more secure places I service.
shanedaly
One step closer to the greatest heresy of all: an M1911A1 with a polymer lower.
EricDaMAJ
Material science and engineering can actually be pretty cool. This is an excellent example of that fact.
johnnydoe
Historically improvements/advancements in material science and manufacturing has been the primary force propelling forward firearms tech and allowing new designs to be viable.
Currently improving on the materials and components in existing designs is pretty much the only innovation happening now.
The new cartridge and weapons system being adopted by the US is quite ballistically impressive all other concerns aside. Still an intermediate size cartridge but it flies faster and hits harder.
WhatIsSanity
If the material is or will be afordable, it protably will see some use in replica/asg/blank guns. Basicly, something that needs to look like a firearm, weight like a firearm, but can't functuon as one
andrzej
At first I thought the caption said, AVOID...Glad I watched and was corrected.
petesheppard
Didn't Zev do this first with tungsten powder infused polymers?
RichardCranium
used to work with duponts densified polymers, its a weird process but the end result is something pretty wild
AsbestosMuffins
I was saying that!! I have a p320 x5 legion that feels incredible! Its wild
