Posted on 09/14/2015 6:26:04 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
But the same thing made out of wood and a few bits from Home Depot wouldn’t get you all this free publicly.
I would think the firing pressure must be handled by the barrel and not the liner. A liner should protect the plastic barrel which should handle all of the pressure. Like an inner tube in a tire.
Talk about a mis-leading headline. Its a plastic toy roughly in the shape of a gun.
Has he invented a new kind of firearm, a “semiautomatic revolver”?
Ordinarily that would be completely true, but in the late 1800's Lieutenant Colonel George Vincent Fosbery, VC designed a revolver that was essentially self cocking. He partnered up with Webley& Scott and the pistol was produced in the early 1900's. The British Military carried them for a while.
Don't recall much more about them.
Yeah, that’s a pretty funny combination...
Doesn’t look like, from the video, that it’s even a “revolver”.
More like a “you revolve it”.
That looks more like it was milled from a billet and not 3d printed.
Yeah, that’s a pretty funny combination...
Doesn’t look like, from the video, that it’s even a “revolver”.
More like a “you revolve it”.
Also, is the dummass in the video muzzling his index finger?
Yeah I once read of an unintentionally full auto Colt Single Action Army. Seems the tip of the firing pin had broken leaving it sharp. Upon cocking and firing the first shot the revolver would fire the cartridge and pierce the primer allowing enough gas to escape to blow the hammer back far enough to rotate the cylinder to the next chamber where the action was repeated until the revolver was empty. I guess the ultimate fully automatic revolver would be the GE minigun?
A 2 1/2" max barrel won't help either, but I'm thinking shooter control would be the biggest issue. Effective range on this, if it were actually able to fire, would be abut 25' max.
What is a semi-automatic revolver?
Like the “liberator”, though, the purpose of a gun like this would be to ambush an “occupier” and get a real gun/rifle.
Good question!
Techincally, it is a manually indexed “pepperbox”.
A multibarrel design is one of the easiest ways to get a multishot firearm.
He could load a .22 caliber ball ahead of the .22 blank, and he would have a firearms that shot real projectiles.
As this chambers .22 cartridges, it may be classified as an illegal “short barrelled shotgun” by the feds, as it has no rifling.
Did not bother reading the article. I could not get past the headline of “Semi-Automatic Revolver”.
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, in the movie Casablanca.
It was a real, semi-automatic revolver. There are YouTube videos of them being fired.
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