>>A pretty heavy blaster, in fact, gauged strictly by its firepower, and
>>insanely reliable thanks to the simplicity of its mechanical workings.
>> Each CCRE round is good for a hundred firings before its gas supply
>>is used up, and the NFBs work pretty much forever, so they can be
>>reloaded if you have the right tools and access to the required
>>material, too. In tactical terms, with a minuscule amount of
>>forethought, you simply never have to concern yourself with reloading
>>again.
>
>A perverse corner of my mind just reread this paragraph, and promptly
>wondered about the performance of a
>longarm fitted out that way.

Pretty good, I would expect. There is a small but hardcore fandom out there in the 24th century who are devoted to performing CCRE-1 conversions on such longarms - mostly Pandoran sniper rifles, of which there is a surprising variety of revolving-cylinder models. Kei once converted a Colt Model 1855 carbine, just to see if she could - amusingly, that required that she first convert it to metallic cartridge configuration! It's probably still kicking around someplace, either in her workshop or the giant gun rack we've never actually seen, but which is almost certainly someplace in the Morgan Lane house.

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