If one examines the timeline of about 1969 to present, and compares Canada, Australia, England, and the US, and what has happened to the populations ability to keep and own firearms, I believe it is fair to say the US was lucky to have the NRA. The left never stops trying to limit that constitutional Right, they were trying mightily in the last legislative session in Minnesota to do it again, and, again they were shot down.
They will be back next year. Count on it. So will the NRA.
But, that obvious truth is not what I wanted to post about. There are tough composites out there, but, they fall apart in the presence of combustion heat. A further problem with the barrel of a gun is the fact that it can go from a cold hunting situation to combustion temperatures and back again in the course of a hunting trip. NASA glued the ablative tiles on the space shuttle with epoxy, but, the tiles themselves kept the heat of re entry away from the epoxy, and the shuttle itself. The epoxy could not take extreme temperatures by itself.
The trouble with pitting or pits in a barrel, is corrosion caused them, and corrosion is present in every single one of them. You have to have a process that eliminates the corrosion, and structurally eliminates the pit.
That is a pair of bugaboos that is difficult to get around.
Best,
Ted
