From:	Jeremy Roberson <ROBERSON@***.EDU>
Subject:	Ares assault rifle a la Huth
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:49:03 -0700

Steve, since you stole the concept from GURPS, you may as well use the
description of the gun they give. Folks, for thos of you who care, here's
what the Ares whatever-it-was rifle, submitted by Huth, is supposed to
look like.

First of all, it's a bullpup-configured weapon, placing the magazine
behind the trigger mechanism. The magazine at equal but opposite angles
branching down and out. I'll try to sketch as best I can with ASCII

[]-------body of gun
/ \-------magazines

This is as if you were looking straight down the barrel of the gun.
The magazines rest over you forearm, flanking either side.

Additional note on Bullpup: I've never really played a weaponsfreak
in Shadowrun, but there aren't very many bullpup-configured weapons, are there?
Many people in real life (especially the designers at Heckler & Koch) think
they'll be the wave of the future. Because more of the barrel is resting over
the arm instead of hanging out past the grip, they have the barrel length
of rifles but the recoil characteristics of submachineguns. A referee could
justify a built in 1 point recoil comp, but the weapon would still be more
concealable than an M22A2, since it is more streamlined.



J Roberson