Barghest SAF Interdictor
Written by: Ripshot
Heaven is a big beautiful gun, hombre, but we've all ran into that problem of trying to get one where it shouldn't be. A lot of gunsmiths and manufacturers have tried playing with collapsable firearms, but so many of 'em end up suffering from it, turning a good gun into a rickety mess of hinges and sharp corners. Barghest Precision Machining have stepped up to take the old college try at the concept with their new Interdictor autoshotty, and to my surprise, it's probably one of the most gracefully designed takes I've seen in a long while. Like Barghest's other Stand-Alone Frame guns, this little fella started out as a custom model for an implanted cybergun, something that'd just fit in a cyberlimb without turning any heads, until it deploys and suddenly you've got a 10-bore cannon where your arm was a second ago. When the gunsmiths at Barghest finished the design for this model, they realised that most of the collapsing systems were more or less self-contained and decided to slap it into a stand-alone frame, and started selling it as a concealable piece for bodyguards and other people in need of concealable heat to keep under their jackets. Hold down the toggle-lever and pull back on the slide, and your gun folds small enough to stow in a handbag. Hold the grip-safety and pull the toggle lever again (or command the thing through DNI/Wireless) and those self-assembling servos'll have you ready to shoot in under three seconds!Also goes without saying that like most cyberguns, the Interdictor uses a lot of ceramic components so it won't stick out so much when the cyberlimb's scanned. It won't fool deep-scans, but it's enough to make a difference in getting past smaller checkpoints.As for the gun itself? It feels rock-solid for a collapsable piece, all flush-fittings and no rattling. The collapsable stock is the only weak-spot, and it feels like it's always about to collapse from the strain of firing, so I'd personally recommend having a gunsmith take a look at it if you can. The performance of the shotty isn't anything to write home about, but you're not paying for a competition-piece: you're paying for the joy of being able to take a shotty along with you while everyone else is having to settle with pistols, chummer.
Goes without saying that you should also try to pack something that doesn't need unfolding before you can fire it. Nothing quite as humbling as eating shit because you tried firing this thing before it finishes unfolding and you end up throwing half a receiver at someone's chest.
Wireless Bonus: The Interdictor can collapse/assemble as a Simple Action, instead of a Complex Action.
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