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Impressive, it'll be creative and groundbreaking cinematography. This and there isn't. The next ship based rail zip tube will be able to reach 250 mi accurately to send a magnesium re-bar shaped rod into the underground munitions piles unspent from WWI. So, One can visit France's countryside with a nada chance of tripping "sweating" nitro munitions.

Ferrocerium - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocerium

Ferrocerium is a synthetic pyrophoric alloy that produces hot sparks that can reach ... In traditional flint-and-steel fire-starting systems (using natural flint), ... A flint spark lighter (sometimes just called a spark lighter, striker, or flint lighter) is a type ... Most contemporary flints are hardened with iron oxide and magnesium oxide.

I am not an advocate of the illuminated idiot un-foolproof guns can be, or that a 50 cal in short-range makes short work of living animals.  I'm a boy, I have a natural "biblical like" interest in "the machine," to say, 'cause hitting targets is "cool" fun.  The One-shot where they got a Nazi platoon leader "while He shaved," and it was a trajectorial "lob," is the Sniper shot I remember.