Engineer Couldn't Design the SRS Sniper Rifle

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[@maluminse1]

The absolute most ignorant myopic phrase ever to have been uttered - If it was a good idea somebody would have already done it...

[@DesertTechUT]

I agree!

[@Radvous]

True, I mean good ideas have to start somewhere, this isn't a chicken and an egg situation.

[@tekno4blood]

An engineer, a machinist, and a gunsmith are all very different people. But what do you expect from a youtube guntoober podcaster 😂

[@gagebenson1791]

Thank you!!! Someone who actually knows what they're talking about.

[@DesertTechUT]

The point is that limiting yourself to a box a school puts you in stops you from accomplishing great things. A mechanical engineer should have been more capable in designing a rifle than a business student but self limits stopped him.

[@shaun536]

@tekno4blood That is the biggest ignorant comment and lack of logic comments I have read all day. To build a safe functional firearm for the masses requires all 3 of those types of knowledge.

[@AppalachianRancher]

Lol I sold a square baler to a guy who was an engineer in a factory. He had an baler similar to mine that wasn't baling right. He couldn't fix his so he needed a different one. I asked him if it was humbling something that was designed 70 years ago on paper he couldnt fix? Yeah he didn't like that question too much.

[@DesertTechUT]

Lol

[@predragdjuric-tt9uc]

a very nice story Mr.have agood one and happy the flag day and father weekend Mr.

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

If it was a good idea, someone body would have... PFFT Why did it take so long for us to have cars and airplanes? People used to think that bicycles were horseshits.

[@mr.eafluffyrobot8381]

A mechanical engineer works with moving mechanisms and assemblies that typically don't hurt people, the person who you would want is a gun smith or machinist.

[@DesertTechUT]

Gunsmiths don't design guns, they fix them. The US doesn't have firearms engineering programs, you have to go to someplace like Russia to get formal education on firearms engineering so unless someone is willing to go outside of the governments prescribed box gun engineering wouldn't exist in the USA.

[@shaun536]

@mr.eafluffyrobit8381 You would have been better to stay quiet than to spout how stupid you are with that comment.

[@shaun536]

@mr.eafluffyrobot8381 It would have been better for you to let people know that you might possibly be a fool than to have posted your ignorance and prove that you are an fool.

[@lordjacesearcy9382]

Part of the engineers code of ethics is to not work on a project outside of their expertise in order to promote public safety. He probably had a decent idea on how to make the rifle work, but wasnt confident enough to commit to figuring it out. edit: engineers are specialized, and a national code of ethics keeps them professionally bound to that specialization

[@DesertTechUT]

How do you address the fact that there isn’t a single firearms engineering program in the USA? Without a willingness to venture outside the boxes the government has created there wouldn’t be any firearms engineers in the states.

[@user-hi6yo3nq3l]

@@DesertTechUTBecause it's too focused. Contrary to what the top comment says, engineers often switch focuses in a career, and are not bound to a general "code of ethics" (obviously companies will have their own code). That being said, many mechanical engineers can easily develop firearms. Take for example Remington. They employ hundreds of engineers to help them design the firearms of the future.

[@jchew7288]

Hell yeah! Academics and their degrees never learn to innovate, creating something new is completely foreign to them. They are so crammed into that regurgitated box of thinking. And yet they have the nerve to mock people without the degree who dare to think different.

[@bigg.grizzlybear2670]

if wheels were a good idea someone else wouldve already made them

[@rossspeidel3674]

Mechanical engineers design HVAC systems, not to say they couldn’t design a gun but definitely different scopes of work. Drive me insane how people hear engineer and then believe that it’s one size fits all. It would be like asking a dentist to preform surgery on a cancer patient.

[@Roosters-rants1977]

Not at all. It just shows how schooling has gone downhill. Most products are worse. Especially HVAC. Old units lasted 30 to 40 years. Newer units last 10 to 15 if you're lucky. You aren't helping the argument.

[@henrysadventures8424]

Mechanical engineers do not just design hvac systems. There are a broad range of jobs that are under the mechanical engineering umbrella

[@joshmuirhead1154]

You Need a mechanical engineer to engineer an extended magazine for the Quattro 15. Shouldn’t be too hard, and hopefully can get it done before doomsday which feels close.

[@DesertTechUT]

How many rounds do you want

[@joshmuirhead1154]

77 please

[@jameseroh6544]

Sometimes "educated people" don't have that much creativity. Howard Hughes never went to formal school. His parents educated him. At 17 he inherited Hughes Tool Company. In his lifetime he invented the ammo chute, chain gun, and mounted a 105mm howitzer in a DC-3. He also invented the first communications satellite and many aerospace inovations. If a person has a talented mind. A degree just helps them learn what others had developed before us. Unfortunately your brother in law doesn't have your level of thinking.

[@DesertTechUT]

Exactly!

[@fastjarhead6796]

Explains college in a nutshell.

[@Roosters-rants1977]

Thats the truth about degrees. Most engeneers are so impractical they ruin trades. Every product is worse.

[@joshcarter-com]

I don’t know your brother but this seems like an unfair criticism. Engineers need to specialize, so if he doesn’t have this background, and doesn’t have the time/interest to learn it, “no” is the best answer. That has nothing to do with his education or being closed-minded. I’m an engineer and I get asked to design stuff all the time, and in most cases I say “no,” too.

[@DesertTechUT]

There is no school or program that teaches firearms engineering in the US anywhere. Russia and other country have firearms engineering programs so if you want to be a firearms engineer in the US then you have to be able to go outside of our governments prescribed education boxes to pull it off. I have never met a mechanical engineer that didn’t claim to be able to do a ton of different things but when it came down to putting their feet on pavement then things changed.

[@joshcarter-com]

@@DesertTechUT I don’t disagree. John Browning only had an elementary school education, and if you look at the photo of him and his brothers in front of their first proper shop, “ammunition” is misspelled on the sign. Didn’t stop him from becoming the most legendary designer in history. But what I was objecting to was your statement that your brother’s education made him closed-minded. That might actually be true, but you didn’t make the case for that. It’s wonderful that you took on the challenge and have created several new and innovative designs. You’ve got every reason to be proud of Desert Tech and your product line. I just don’t think your brother is any less of an engineer for declining a project. I have to decline projects, too, simply because I’m busy and/or I’m not interested in them.

[@joshcarter-com]

@@DesertTechUT I should add, I’m mostly self-taught, too. While my formal education wasn’t terribly useful, it didn’t hurt, either.