Palmer Luckey: "We're building things that would have made the last 50 years of firearms irrelevant" — Transcript
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- 0:00believe it's they're not they're these
- 0:02are ideas often that even exist in
- 0:03sci-fi. It's just like you're you're
- 0:06you're building the things that in 100
- 0:08years it'll seem obvious to everyone.
- 0:10They'll say, "Why the hell did nobody
- 0:12build that before?" I'm building things
- 0:13today that we could have built 100 years
- 0:14ago and it would have changed
- 0:16everything. We're building things, for
- 0:17example, that would have made the last
- 0:1950 years of firearms development
- 0:21completely irrelevant. Abs like let's
- 0:23make every gun
- 0:26every gun that has been designed since
- 0:28the '50s or so, since Eugene Stoner
- 0:30invented the AR platform and Armalite
- 0:32rifle, like we we're going to make
- 0:33everything since that irrelevant. Uh and
- 0:37uh you could have actually done this in
- 0:38the '20s. I can't tell you exactly what
- 0:40it is, but like, you know, it's a I
- 0:43so you but but you learn from these
- 0:45failures, right? These failures are are
- 0:47are often they were the wrong time, not
- 0:49the wrong idea.
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