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The New ‘Intelligent’ Rifle That Claims to Give You a Perfect Shot Every Time

Fighter jet technology for your rifle? Sign me up!

A new Texas-based company is developing a shooting system that could turn even the least skilled marksmen into a sniper-quality shooter.

TrackingPoint calls its system the “world’s first precision guided firearm.”

President Jason Schauble explained in a YouTube demonstration of the technology that what the company did is “put jet fighter lock-and-launch technology into a firing system.”

The system uses a conventional gun and ammunition, but combines them with a Intelligent Digital Tracking Scope and a guided trigger. The technology doesn’t let you fire until the shot is spot on.

“You don’t have to be an experienced shooter,” Schauble said in the video. “You can come and pick this up and within minutes be able to master the tag-track-exact technology that allows you to get on target.”

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The Porter Rifle

The Porter Rifle

Before the Civil War, competition was fierce among gun designers to create a practical repeating rifle. In 1851, inventor P.W. Porter thought he had the solution. It was a nine-shot, .44-caliber percussion gun that fed from a radial magazine, which was rotated and locked by a lever. The individually loaded chambers on the perimeter of the turret were ignited by a self-priming side-hammer mechanism.

But there were issues. The rifle was as complex as the average lunar rocket-“and it was equally dangerous at both ends. With the turret loaded, one chamber was pointed at the shooter, and if the primer flash went into that chamber, he got to see what the next world was like. Nevertheless, Porter went into production and built 1,250 rifles in three variations, mostly in Manhattan. This is the Second Model, of which 350 to 400 were made. It has a screw-off cover for its magazine and a serpentine loading lever at the muzzle. It looks to be in NRA Fair condition (basically, a 3 on a scale of 10) and, assuming the action is operable, is worth $4,500 to $5,000. Not a bad thing to turn up in a closet.

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