A crazy home made gun ?

[boatmonkey82]

ok its late and im thinking . how cool would it be to make a device that could fire about 25 12 rounds at the same time ? it would be built like this . 25 20in x 3/4 in black pipe welded into a square formation 4 wide 5 tall and with enough spacing to allow the shell to fit . one plate with 25 pin holes drilled that could be fastened to the main assy to hold the shells - the one other plate with 25 pin that could be remotely actuated via 25 lb solenoid . the damage that thing would do ! oh and it would have to be mounted to a reese hitch so as to not go fly off into another time zone . other than coolness i thinkit would be a complete and utter waste of time any money and lots of trial and error . what would the legality of this even be . let me know your thoughts or tell me to shut the hell up :D

[troy_mclure]

search "metal storm" you are just thinking of a bubafied version of that.

[hogdogs]

Would be under the NFA as one pull of trigger fires more than one shell... But it would be cool to shoot it...
Brent

[bigghoss]

you might be able to get around that if you had 25 individual firing pins that could be fired independently from each other as well as *oops* I hit them all at once!

[TheManHimself]

As long as each barrel was fired by an independent trigger pull, it'd be OK.

If you could rig it to fire by hand crank like a Gatling, that would also be a non-NFA firearm. Legally, a firearm is only a machinegun if it fires more than one round per operation of the trigger mechanism.

Regarding a crank-fired weapon like a Gatling, manual operation of the crank is considered to be equivalent to pulling the trigger of a semi-auto really fast, i.e. continuous operation from the user.

Conversely, an electrically-driven firing mechanism would be a machinegun, because holding down a button or flipping a switch is considered to be equivalent to holding down the trigger of an automatic firearm.

[B. Lahey]

Sounds like the volley gun concept.

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn298/brendanclaude/vandenburgh_front_back.jpg

If it was done as a reproduction without the use of self-contained cartridges, maybe it could be done legally?

The original plan doesn't sound legal, though. A modern contraption to fire multiple modern cartridges with a single operation of a "trigger" seems pretty machinegunish. I am not a lawyer, but the Bubbastorm device seems questionable at best as far as the law goes.

[madmo44mag]

OK, boatmonkey shut the hell up!!!!
Just joshin :D:D:D:D:D:D