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The army abandoned their search for an M16 replacement last year, but a man working out of his garage in Colorado Springs snapped them out of that hiatus. Martin Grier's "ribbon gun" features 4 6mm bores carved out of a single steel barrel, and special ammunition blocks fired by electromagnetic actuators. Despite all that, whole thing only weighs 6.5 pounds and represents a $500,000 investment. Grier claims the prototype can fire 250 rounds a second, or fire all 4 barrels at once as a "power shot". The rifle will still work even if one of the barrels fail. The Army expressed interest in the design, and asked for a prototype to test for themselves.
"A multibore firearm, with several bores within a single barrel, could potentially exhibit many of the advantages of a multibarrel design, while reducing the size, weight and complexity disadvantages," Grier wrote in his 2016 patent application. "All the best stuff comes out of somebody’s garage," he said.
"A multibore firearm, with several bores within a single barrel, could potentially exhibit many of the advantages of a multibarrel design, while reducing the size, weight and complexity disadvantages," Grier wrote in his 2016 patent application. "All the best stuff comes out of somebody’s garage," he said.