or it could be handheld and fire one million needles with dumb-dumb properties in 1msec bursts (1,000,000/1000)/60=16 or 17 rounds per burst), you get a rash on your chest where they went in and about the same amount of damage you would suffer being stabbed 17 times by a stilleto in your back where they exit, and the guy with the gun could fire 16,000 odd "bursts" between reloads, you just don`t argue with people holding weapons like that, thats the whole idea of being ahead in weapons, deterence, it doesn`t work if you don`t use em when you must though.
as a point of interest to us as games coders, it makes the clips on weapons in games like Unreal or Doom look antiquated, the future is more likley gonna be 10,000 round hypersonic dart guns that need a clip changing every 15 minutes of use, rather than the classical 32 round machine gun clips or weapons that fire a few dozen times per clip/charge.
Mentor.
PC1: P4 3ghz, 1gig mem, 3x160gig hd`s, Radeon 9800pro w cooler (3rd gfx card), 6 way speakers.
PC2: AMD 2ghz, 512mb ram, FX5200 ultra, 16 bit SB.
Mini ATX cases suck.