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|'''Tangler Gun'''<br />
Cost: 250Cr<br />
Weight: 2 kg<br />
Damage: Entanglement<br />
Ammo: 10 shot TanglerClip<br />
Rate: 3 when powered, 1 when manually pumped<br />
Defense: RS Avoidance Roll<br />
Range: 5/10/20/40/80<br />
Ammo Cost: 25Cr (10-shot TanglerClip)<br />
Skill: Projectile Weapons<br />
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by [[Larry Moore]]

Although not common in the Frontier, the tangler gun is an
extremely effective tool for law enforcement personnel and
bounty hunters who prefer to bring them in alive rather than
dead. It is a heavy pistol with a large fore-end, capable of
firing tangler gelpacks that explode on impact, releasing their
strands into the air, expanding and immediately beginning
their hardening process.

The bullets fired by the gun are not hard, nor are they selfpropelled.
They are gelatinous and encased in a tough outer
plastic wrap designed to rupture on impact. The gun itself
doesn’t fire through explosive means. No gunpowder or
rocket fuel is used. Simple air compression is used, forcing
air into the TanglerClip, causing the gelpack to be launched
straight and true. The sound made by the tangler gun (as
well as the general pneumatic nature of the weapon’s delivery
of its payload) has earned the weapon the nickname
“spitball.”

The weapon has a 20-SEU PowerClip in the handle, but this is
simply to power the rapid air compressing pneumatic delivery
system. The ammunition for this unusual weapon is the
TanglerClip, which is a large cylinder with ten chambers, each
with a tangler gelpack loaded into it with a thin plastsheet
cover (to keep it from falling out when the gun is pointed
downward). When the trigger is pressed, the PowerClip
energizes the pneumatics and forces air into the chamber –
breaking the plastsheet cover and launching the gelpack. The
force of the air then rotates the cylinder clockwise to the next
available cylinder. The weapon can be fired up to three times
per turn in this manner. When the TanglerClip is depleted
(10 shots), 1 SEU is drained from the PowerClip (it was
drained gradually by firing those ten shots). When the
PowerClip is depleted, the weapon can still be fired but must
be pumped manually by pulling back on the top/back of the
pistol. Pumping it in this manner builds up pressure without
power, but reduces the rate of fire to one shot per turn.

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