What are the Most Innovative Modern Firearms?

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I recently was thinking about this as a topic for a video. Just finished and uploaded it, and now am kicking myself for not posing this question earlier on the forum to have gotten some input early on.

What are your opinions on the top 5 most innovative guns in the past 10 or so years?

Mine were as follows:

B&T USW
SIG MPX (this was my bonus pick)
SIG Rattler
Fightlite MCR
Desert Tech 338 Covert
GM6 Lynx (this gun is technically older I believe)

Lots of others I considered that were close, but I might do a second video on it and would like to get some input, plus I figure this is an interesting topic. Hopefully these aren’t all banned in a few months...

Caveat is that they are legal to own in Canada (can’t do a video on guns I can’t get my hands on).

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I'd have to say the Bushmaster ACR aswell. While the price tag has been its commercial shortfall, the design is modular and very well done.
 
Keltec designs are pretty innovative even if the execution can be a bit spotty. Downward or front ejecting bullpups (RDB and RFB), 14rd capacity pump shotguns (KSG), folding NR PCC (Sub 2000). Not to mention they're all available in Canada.
 
Bushmaster acr is a solid recommend. The platform definitely had/has a lot of potential with companies like Templar precision in USA making new components for it.
 
Milofficer said:
Keltec designs are pretty innovative even if the execution can be a bit spotty. Downward or front ejecting bullpups (RDB and RFB), 14rd capacity pump shotguns (KSG), folding NR PCC (Sub 2000). Not to mention they're all available in Canada.
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I agree with this. Wouldn't trust my life to one but they definitely fit the description of "innovative".
 
FN FS2000. Hey, you said innovative, not best :)

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Master-G said:
FN FS2000. Hey, you said innovative, not best :)

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Haha I had a “tactical tuna” for awhile. Definitely enjoyed it. I’ll have to pick up another someday. The Ps90 definitely makes the cut as well, it’s just a 30 year old gun already. I was trying to go for firearm innovations within the last 5-10 years
 
saskcop said:
XCR may fit the bill.
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I love the xcr, probably just favourite modern weapon platform. However again it’s a circa 2005 design. Maybe for video 2 I’ll just open it up to 1990 and include the p90 as well. Xcr and acr were definitely innovative in their time.
 
Armedsask said:
There hasn't been a significant innovation in firearms design in over 50 years. Other than advances in manufacturing, its mostly old technology.

Except maybe the Kriss Vector.
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I would argue there have been some pretty decent developments in the last 10 years. You are right about the vector though; very unique design well suited for select fire applications. The action doesn’t really add anything for semi automatics though, much like constant recoil doesn’t either. Both are phenomenal in full auto, and constant recoil is now being incorporated in more modern squad automatic platforms now. Ultimax lead the way and now Knights design their LAMG to utilize constant recoil.
 
Arm&Gun said:
I would argue there have been some pretty decent developments in the last 10 years. You are right about the vector though; very unique design well suited for select fire applications. The action doesn’t really add anything for semi automatics though, much like constant recoil doesn’t either. Both are phenomenal in full auto, and constant recoil is now being incorporated in more modern squad automatic platforms now. Ultimax lead the way and now Knights design their LAMG to utilize constant recoil.
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I may have been a bit overly dismissive. Sure there's been some innovation but I say 95% of anything these days is tweaks on old designs. I was also going to mention the Ultimax. I've loved it ever since I learned of it. One day I'll have one.
 
IMHO, I don't think the Vector is especially innovative. The recoil still has to go somewhere, they just opted to make it go in a different direction. In my experience shooting it, it didn't shoot any softer or more controllable compared to a well tuned 9mm AR PCC by comparison, or a Sig MPX / CZ Scorpion.

I think constant recoil guns like the Ultimax and Knight's LAMG or balanced-recoil guns like the AEK971 are cooler and more effective than the Kriss system, but that's just me.

Also for sheer cool points (I know it's unobtanium in Canada) I'd argue the AN-94 is super innovative, if complex
 
I’m going to go in a bit of a different direction with this, but I’d say some top innovative firearms within the last 5-10 years are:
- Modern Sporter. ATRS’s incremental approach of bringing to market a firearm that is very similar to an AR-15 without it being classed as an AR-15 was quite clever.

- BCL-102. Convincing the “powers that be” that this rifle was in the lineage of the original AR-10 spawned a whole variety of different types of non-restricted modern AR-10 rifles.

- Pistol braces. While not technically a firearm, it provided the US gun owners with a way to have “unregistered” SBRs for all intents and purposes. And it also killed any empirical argument as to why short barreled rifles should still be NFA items.
 
Milofficer said:
IMHO, I don't think the Vector is especially innovative. The recoil still has to go somewhere, they just opted to make it go in a different direction. In my experience shooting it, it didn't shoot any softer or more controllable compared to a well tuned 9mm AR PCC by comparison, or a Sig MPX / CZ Scorpion
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The entire point of the Kriss Vector is to fire .45 ACP controllably on full auto. Comparing it to a semi auto 9mm is missing the entire purpose of the design and not a fair comparison.
 
I dunno, the M3 and the Tommy gun could be very controllable on full auto. Controllable full auto .45 isn't new and didn't require a new recoil system. Blowback works just fine if you don't go overboard with the cyclic rate. And an M3 is far simpler and cheaper than a Vector.
 
I believe cartridge type firearms have reached the pinnacle already... the next innovation is case-less/gauss/plasma type projectiles then energy type weapons.
 
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