Posted on May 8, 2015
Have You Heard About The New Double Barrel Pistol?
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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.
Read more: http://www.gunsandammo.com/blogs/for-the-love-of-competition/double-barrel-pistol/#ixzz3Za5OvlhN
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.
Read more: http://www.gunsandammo.com/blogs/for-the-love-of-competition/double-barrel-pistol/#ixzz3Za5OvlhN
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Don't get me wrong; It's very interesting and the engineering is cool, but why would you ever need/want something like this?
I would like to try it, just to say I did, but I wouldn't buy it.
Novelty item only.
I would like to try it, just to say I did, but I wouldn't buy it.
Novelty item only.
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MSgt Cayle Harris , I'm with you. I'd like to fire it just to say I did, but I know I couldn't afford it.
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@ltcgavin heater, it might be fun to shoot, but to have it as a carry weapon wouldn't be very much fun. It's one of those fad things. The talk of the town until the cost is way too much.
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LTC Stephen C.
You're right, SGT (Join to see)! If you start carrying that thing around, you'll need to visit a chiropractor once a week!
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LTC Stephen C. , my back and hip couldn't handle it. Ah, the good old days when we could carry a 60lb. ruck sack and a weapon and ammo. So long, good old days, so long. (-;
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