“What is it?” Rydell asked. “Chain gun,” Fontaine said. “Disposable. Can’t reload it. Caseless: this long square thing’s the cartridges and the barrel in one. No moving parts to it: ignition’s electrical. Two buttons here, where the trigger would be, you just point it, press ’em both the same time. It’ll do that four times. Four charges.” “Why do they call it a chain gun?” “What this is, Martial says, it’s more like a directional grenade, you understand? Or sort of like a portable fragmentation mine. Main thing he told me is you don’t use it in any kind of confined space, and you only use it
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