Accuracy might increase as you're unlikely to need a great big bolt, etc as you do in the M60 banging back and forth inside. I'd imagine the only working parts would be those moving the new round into position for firing.
The whole weapon could probably be lighter than conventional weapons that need to account for the rapidly expanding gases and extremely high internal pressures, and this could actually have a detrimental effect on recoil - less mass to soak up the recoil.
The time it would take for a single projectile to move from the "breach" to the muzzle isn't likely to be all that much longer than a conventional round - a small fraction of a second. However, it probably would be slow enough than the felt recoil would be more like a swift push than a sudden thump.
Firing cyclicly, I would imagine it would be a little like holding a hose and after the initial half second, be much easier to keep on target. It does depend a lot on the RPM of the weapon though - slow RPM would certainly result in "pulsing" while faster RPM would be much smoother (but chew through ammo and power).
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