Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

>I have a new iBook. I could take that iBook with me to Afganistan. I
>could not find parts or a full replacement unit in Afganistan. I
>could not make those parts there either. I could take my 1941 Lithgow 
>Enfield Rifle there and get a local with some simple machine
>tools to make a new trigger spring or turn out a new firing pin. Thats
>the difference.

You could NOT have taken your Enfield Rifle to such a location in 1941
and 
had decent replacement parts made, just as you can not take any cutting
edge 
tech into the middle of nowhere and expect to have replacements made for
it.

The point IS a LASER rifle will NOT be cutting edge tech in the 2150 
universe.  Quite the opposite I would expect it LASERs to be quite well 
established tech as they will have had well over 150 years (!) of 
development behind them.  How many years of development does your
Enfield 
have behind it now?  About the same number of years that the LASER will
have 
150 years from now (first rifles using cartridges).

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