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[Aseaheru]

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   The office above the factory floor was an oasis of calm over the bedlam below. For weeks now, the workers had been worried by the privatization of the facility, particularly with exports of its products now effectively being impossible. Within the office the floor managers sat quietly around the table, listening anxiously to the man from the government. Could Ledrium Manufacturing survive, and perhaps thrive?

Ledrium Manufacturing starts with the following assets:
A factory building with space for two assembly lines
A grant to cover the tooling for the first assembly lines
60 Bits
A native ammunition type, recently developed as a plan for export sales as an attempt to skirt around the sanctions imposed on Iadren.

It is now 1950, Drawing Phase
Examine the contracts in the main thread for a goal to work towards this turn. You will need to design a firearm to submit to atleast one of the contracts. It is recommended that for this first turn only one design be developed. Please propose designs to work one, and vote on which to do. Once results from this first phase are in there will be an opportunity for further revisions or the ability to go right to bidding, with the ability to shove a price on it and submit it for consideration.

The design should include the proposed goals for the gun, its operating mechanism, its cartridge, and any special features it uses.
For designing a cartridge, please specify the shape of the loading, if the round is rimmed, semi-rimmed, or rimless, and the size of the round in both overall length and bullet diameter. Alternatively, generalizations such as "small rifle cartridge" or "large pistol cartridge may be used.

For the first turn only you may rename your company and have a free revision for ammunition! You can vote on the name of the company and select a logo if you wish. The free ammunition revision will be carried out this turn.

[ConscriptFive]

Alright, contract rundown:

CQB gun: Shotgun or SMG.  Maybe a carbine.  Or get crazy with a Stechkin-like machine-pistol? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stechkin_automatic_pistol )  Low budget though, so a pump shotgun would probably be highest margin.
Civilian weapons:  Presumably not full auto?
Civilian Handguns:  Snubnosed Magnum revolvers?  Kinda low budget, but a looong contract.
Police Carbines: Semi-auto carbines.  High budget.
"Sniper" Pistol: Long-barreled Magnum revolver with an optic. (GM is a French GIGN fan apparently.)
Boy Scout Gun: Trash small caliber guns.  Terrible payout.

So I see three options.

1. A fancy magnum revolver with a scope/bipod for the "Sniper" pistol, revised down to a cheap snub for the civilian handguns.  (1 design, 1 revision, 1 ammo revision)
2. A midrange pump action shotgun we can push to the CQB contract, and then the civilian weapons. (1 design, 0 revision, 1 ammo revision)
3. A fancy semi-auto carbine that's overqualified for the civilian weapons contract. (1 design, 0 revision, 1 ammo revision)

The shotgun seems like a solid short term play, but developing a semi-auto carbine has more potential in the long run.  The revolver has the same problem of not really pushing the tech progression, while also being kinda niche.

Thoughts?