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Who says las-guns have to fire lasers? All the detailed descriptions of how a las-gun works are from the imperial-guardman's handbook (the little spin off book from the gaunts ghost series). The same book that says (don't have the book to hand so paraphrasing) 'In the event of a hull breach and you are sucked out into space try to swim back in'. Clearly this book lies. So describing las-guns as laser weapons is sensible because the shot fired looks like a laser (also discourages guardsmen fiddling with their guns and learning forbidden knowledge). I like to think of the las-gus very similar to the weapons used in mass effect.I.E using effectively slivers of metal shaved off a metal block and then accelerated through a coil accelerator.

TL;DR: Lasguns are like modern day equivalent of dragon scale body armour. Looks like a laser but it isn't.

That particular book also says that lasguns (it tried to auto-correct to flashgun,. I guess it knows it's a flashlight) will take anything down in one shot, gaurdsman have the strongest Armour in the galaxy, tau are herbivors that are scared by loud noises and can't do science, genestealers being slow, and having blunt claws, shuriken weapons being unable to penetrate flak armor, and orks being small. I would not trust anything it says, although I assume lasguns doe fire laser because:
A. Lasguns,
and
B. Look at the art.

it05y25 wrote:
Lasguns are like modern day equivalent of dragon scale body armour. Looks like a laser but it isn't.

Umm... what?

I'd imagine kinetic weaponry especially facing space marines. During WWI and WWII one tactic when not equipped with anti tank weapons was to hit the tank with heavy machine guns until the crew lost it and bailed out.

THE NOISE! THE DREADFUL NOISE!