Hi gun experts,
Name's Filip, and I'm a writer from Sweden. I've got a science fiction story, a space magic western, in a world where manufacturing is cheap and precise, and there are things like plasma weapons or other items of massive firepower.
Militaries use fully automatic weapons, or possibly semi-auto.
In such a world, why would bolt-action rifles exist? I need them for story reasons, but the best reason I can come up with is "because semi/auto/self-loading are restricted to security forces." I.e. because the writer said so.
Would there be a valid reason to keep manufacturing bolt action weapons when semi's are just as dependable and just as cheap?
TIA!
Name's Filip, and I'm a writer from Sweden. I've got a science fiction story, a space magic western, in a world where manufacturing is cheap and precise, and there are things like plasma weapons or other items of massive firepower.
Militaries use fully automatic weapons, or possibly semi-auto.
In such a world, why would bolt-action rifles exist? I need them for story reasons, but the best reason I can come up with is "because semi/auto/self-loading are restricted to security forces." I.e. because the writer said so.
Would there be a valid reason to keep manufacturing bolt action weapons when semi's are just as dependable and just as cheap?
TIA!