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A few days ago, I was searching some pictures on Flickr and by mistake I found the rayguns of Lockwasher. They are pretty interesting, even they are not real. They remind of the old SF movies I was watching when I was little.

Photo Courtesy Lockwasher

I started putting these intergalactic self-defense mechanisms (ray guns) together after being totally inspired by Clayton Bailey, artist/gunsmith. I also draw inspiration from old 50’s and 60’s space movies, TV, toys… anything retro cool! I hope you enjoy looking at these as much as I did creating them.”

But it seems he’s not the only one who has the strange passion of making toy rayguns.

Photo Courtesy Lawrence Northey

and…

Source: Joe Blow Glassworks

Why rayguns are fictional, as far as is generally known

* In many science fiction scenarios, the laws of physics and nature of matter and energy are different from in the real world (i.e.: the fictional Minovsky Physics, which operate in the Gundam universe.)

* With current technology, the amount of power that they would need is beyond the capacity of any handheld device[citation needed]. Actual energy weapons are large and cumbersome and portable versions are barely powerful enough to be considered weapons.



* Many of them need non-existent materials.

* For laser guns, see Directed-energy weapon#Problems with lasers.

* Many fictional ray guns fire a beam which (unlike lasers) is visible in vacuum and sometimes also travels much slower than light.

* For plasma rifles and similar, see the possibility of plasma rifles existing in the real world (from Wikipedia)