Guns&Ammo Review: Arsenal Firearms Introduces Double Barrel Pistol (.45cal)

Guns & Ammo ^ | 3/12/12 | Iain Harrison

[LibWhacker]

It may come as a surprise to some (and boy, do I feel like a cantankerous old geezer for saying this,) but firearms are a mature technology. We all have to be aware that just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should”

Following the invention of the double column magazine by Deudonne Saive, there really haven’t been a whole lot of original ideas coming out of the handgun industry for the last 75 years. Yes, I know, underqualified hacks like me will tell you all about the latest whizbang doodad from SHOT show, but in comparison to say, the medical field, it’s really just the refinement of existing technologies and the application of new materials from other industries, combined in many instances with hyperbolic marketing.

Which brings me to the AF2011-A1 double barrel pistol from Arsenal Firearms. If you listen carefully to the video, you can almost hear the dialog in the meeting that lead to it’s creation. ”Hey Franz, we’ve got a couple of spare 1911′s and a MIG welder. Any clue what we can do with them?” Either that, or they hired a recently-graduated business consultant who mistook the South Park underpants gnomes episode as an instruction manual.

According to Aresenal’s site, the AF2011-A1 is the “very first industrial double barrel semiautomatic pistol of all times.” But wait there’s more. They’re claiming that they are making this “true industrial market-ready double barrel .45 caliber pistol” to commemorate the Colt 1911-A1 in the Centenary.

It is offered either with two independent triggers and one sear group or with two triggers permanently joined and the choice of one or two sear groups. You can pick up one of these wunderkinds in mirror finish Deep Blue or with a 3400 Vickers surface hardness White Ash Nitrite coating.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a brilliant idea that involves a couple of Glock 17s and a tube of JB Weld…

[Eaker]

If you buy two of these then we both could have one!

[oyez]

I can live without it, although it will be painful existence..

[Squantos]

If I can buy two of em one of em is yours....:o)

.....stay safe brother !

[BallandPowder]

Powder..patch..ball FIRE!

Hey! That was a good movie. First Bruce Willis movie I ever saw where he played a bad man...

[Hugin]

WHY?

[golux]

Aww, c'mon Freepers! What about the AWESOMENESS factor? What about the "check THIS out" factor? Isn't that just a little part of why we love to keep and bear in the first place? What about the having a handgun that will most assuredly blow a bad-guy through a door factor? I think it's cool. (But I'd rather have a Kimber Custom)

[Blood of Tyrants]

As I said before, the answer to a question nobody asked.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I think he build it just to watch the liberals freak out.

[mylife]

Liberals are already freaking out! LOL

http://now.msn.com/now/0312-double-barreled-handgun.aspx

[archy]

Following the invention of the double column magazine by Deudonne Saive

Mssr. Saive *borrowed* the two-into-one column magazine of the Browning GP from the Estonian 9x20mm Tallin Arsenali püstolkuulipilduja machinepistol design of Johannes Teiman, upon which work began in 1923, adopted in 1926.

[Blue Collar Christian]

You know you want one Joe. I want...er...need one and I am entitled to one...maybe two of these slick pistols!

[from occupied ga]

Sometimes two barrels is the way to go, but definitely with separate slides

[Squantos]

I agree !.....:o)

ZSU 23’s have been a PITA to counter when caught on the business end !

Stay safe !

[archy]

ZSU 23’s have been a PITA to counter when caught on the business end !

Concur.

[archy]

Aww, c'mon Freepers! What about the AWESOMENESS factor? What about the "check THIS out" factor? Isn't that just a little part of why we love to keep and bear in the first place? What about the having a handgun that will most assuredly blow a bad-guy through a door factor?

What about the weight of the extra magazines. Not to mention their likely cost....

[archy]

Hey! That was a good movie. First Bruce Willis movie I ever saw where he played a bad man...

Sort of depends on your point of view. Just about everybody in the flick was a bad guy. And in the country of the blind, the one-eyed guy views everybody else as NEPUTS.

[Springman]

Ping.