Submitted for your approval...

My SOAR got derailed this morning with, quite possibly, one of the most interesting impromptu mini-seminar sessions I've had this year.  I was reading the news and came across this article and, as I am wont to do, I shared it with my students for their opinion.  This time, I asked them whether or not (in their expert opinion) this weapon was the logical progression of firearms--as designed by Gen X/Y, the Video-Game Generation, etc--or is it a subtle manipulation of that demographic?  We went to the company's website for more info...

The students put forward the following:

1. The display of the scope, as well as the view you get when you look at it, is (in their words) "the same" as Call of Duty.

2. The company's logo is remarkably similar to one of the more renowned (I am informed) gaming clans--FaZeClan--out there.

3. The weapon itself resembles some unreal guns out there, the game Gears of War was cited, er, sighted...  Not sure what the proper terminology versus pun would be here.

And so, the question continues to beg.