US Army is Investigating a Quad Bore Rifle

You can pay a SOT for an FFL for yourself.
 
If you want to see more of this girl shooting, look at this. I direct your attention to the 1:50 mark;

 
N4CR said:
That sounds really cool but would require certain loads to work.
Why acquire twice? What language did you code it in? Would you do further development on it if an opportunity came up?
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Best way to think of trackpoint or similar systems is that they are digital spotters. In standard long range sniping, you basically acquire target/range/etc then the spotter runs the ballistic calculations, gives you the corrections, and you re-acquire with the target with the right calculations.
 
lcpiper said:
oops, just thought of something ...... this guy is a civilian, building his new rifle from his garage ........ The words "fires more than one round with a single pull of the trigger" just popped into my head, followed by "oh fuck !"

Nobody wants to comment on the idea that this guy may have committed a felony by making a machinegun?

The "may have" is there because although the guy was talking about a "powershot" mode where the rifle fires four rounds simultaneously, doesn't mean his prototype actually does this. Maybe he was keeping this limitation in mind.

A guy here at work said something about a tax stamp, the law says no new machineguns can be had, only the existing ones. An exception for sales to law enforcement and military of course.
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Volley fire is not a machine gun per ATFE
 
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Axman said:
I didn't do any of the coding, I just pulled the trigger.

The way it works is that you acquire your target and tag it in the digital scope which is parallel to the bore. At 1000 yards bullet drop for .338 Lapua is a couple of feet, so the reticle moves to meet where the bullet is going to drop to. Then you have to aim again to bring the reticle back onto the target before it locks up and fires. And it doesn't correct for windage; they had an actual sniper help me with that.

It really goes against modern shooting doctrine but it makes sense if you're hunting and want to ensure an ethical cull.
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Very cool, that must have been quite humbling, was it super accurate?
It's possible it was using a built in Laser Range Finder for this, hence the designation then reticle drop as it worked out the distance + bullet drop.
I'm wondering if it's possible to do it without the strict designation..

aaronspink said:
Best way to think of trackpoint or similar systems is that they are digital spotters. In standard long range sniping, you basically acquire target/range/etc then the spotter runs the ballistic calculations, gives you the corrections, and you re-acquire with the target with the right calculations.
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It's quite neat how a computer can be programmed to replace a brain or two for a specific task.

And yes this isn't a new idea but still something that would be useful for this technology, especially if the firing platform isn't as stable.
 
Snishsnoosh said:
Volley fire is not a machine gun per ATFE
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What is "volley fire"? Do you have a definition?

I searched the ATF's website for "volley fire" and "volley" with no luck. I also look at the firearm classification document and didn't find the reference.

Edit, one should keep in mind that this guy says his rifle is "theoretically" capable of a rate of fire of 250 rounds a second so ........

The ATF may not define this weapon as a volley gun.

My understanding without a specific definition is that you are referencing something like this;
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If so, keep in mind that this weapon is manually loaded like a derringer.
 
It's when you have a firearm with multiple barrels and you fire two or more simultaneously. Though this design can conceivably do both fully-automatic fire and volley fire, the prototype might not in order to avoid paying the SOT.
 
Axman said:
It's when you have a firearm with multiple barrels and you fire two or more simultaneously. Though this design can conceivably do both fully-automatic fire and volley fire, the prototype might not in order to avoid paying the SOT.
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Although I hadn't thought of volley fire, I see what you are saying and agree with your statements. It remains, we don't have the details to know if there is a legal issue or not.
 
lcpiper said:
What is "volley fire"? Do you have a definition?

I searched the ATF's website for "volley fire" and "volley" with no luck. I also look at the firearm classification document and didn't find the reference.

Edit, one should keep in mind that this guy says his rifle is "theoretically" capable of a rate of fire of 250 rounds a second so ........

The ATF may not define this weapon as a volley gun.

My understanding without a specific definition is that you are referencing something like this;
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If so, keep in mind that this weapon is manually loaded like a derringer.
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From a 2013 ATF letter. Then again, their opinions change like the wind.
 
Copyright your stuff. Don't forget dragonscale armor. The Government tried to take it away from the makers.
 
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