Guns.com by Chris Eger 6/20/2022
While browsing the exhibitors at the NRA Annual Meeting in Houston last month on the lookout for new guns, we saw a glimpse into a potential future of projectile arms with the Coil Accelerator.
Marketed out of the North Shore Sports Club in Illinois of all places, the CA-09 is in low-rate production. In a nutshell, the makers claim it is the first-ever commercially viable electric-powered Coil Accelerator. The basic overview is that it uses onboard electromagnetic coils-- kind of like a rail gun but without a sliding armature-- to quietly pull nickel-plated iron disks at an adjustable rate of fire. It is fed from 50-round magazines and can fire about 700 times on a single charge.
Still, it is pretty cool, even for its $1,600 price tag. When the tech matures in a couple of years to drop that price and raise that velocity, things could get super interesting, especially when you toss in concepts like 3-D printing and file sharing. As it is, the CA-09 is already less than half the ask of the 15-pound Arcflash Labs GR-1 Anvil, which has been billed as the world’s first handheld Gauss rifle.
More:
https://www.guns.com/news/2022/06/20/coil-accelerator-the-gun-of-the-future
