Coil Accelerator is a Future Proof Gun

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.