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Which sounds so much more pragmatic than "ray gun". Various real-world militaries are trying to develop actual combat lasers, under the term Directed Energy Weapn (DEW).
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However they started going out of style in the mid 1980's, probably due to the testosterone-dripping slugthrower pulse rifles in the movie Aliens. As their popularity wained they were given a new lease on life when Bell Labs invented the laser in the 1960's, and again later with the phasers of Star Trek and the blasters of Star Wars. They were popular in Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, the Lensman series, and Tom Corbett Space Cadet. Well's introduced the "heat ray" in his novel The War of the Worlds (though Zeus had been zapping people who ticked him off for thousands of years). Science fictional "ray guns" that shoot futuristic beams of energy instead of boring mundane bullets have been popular since about 1898 when H.
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Instead the beam should be a series of short pulses. Vaporizing metal or flesh from the target will mess up the beam.