Franklin Armory Does It Again!

[RecoilRob]

So....to cure the obviously terrible accuracy of standard bullets being fired without spin, they develop a finned bullet that may very well be accurate but will totally eliminate the 5.56 (and many other rifle) primary wounding mechanism which is the instability causing rapid yaw in the target. To me it's looking like the downsides are outrunning the advantages with this concept of skirting the NFA.

 

[beeenbag]

Yeah I was interested up until now. I'd much rather have an accurate pistol with a shockwave blade on it than a more cosmetically pleasing stock and bad accuracy or have to have proprietary ammo.

Glad they gave the ol 1-2 to the ATF but to me this is about as useless as a wooden frying pan

 

[Elkins45]

I too wonder how accurate the Nerf bullets will be.

I wonder about getting a bullet mold made to drop lead versions of that projectile, especially if they make a 300 Blackout version. Even better would be a 458 SOCOM or 450 Bushmaster. You could cast them relatively soft because you wouldn’t have to worry about stripping the “rifling,” giving you some semblance of an expanding projectile.

I’m still not paying $2K for one, but a large bore knockoff with homemade bullets might be fun.

 

[WestKentucky]

BATF has defined a rifle essentially as a firearm firing a single projectile from a barrel designed to impart spin onto the projectile to stabilize it. Jumping over to paintball thought here...what if a tool steel button was ran through the barrel creating straight lands and grooves to not impart any spin whatsoever. I have somewhere in the garage a “straight rifled” barrel on a spyder pb marker which is actually a good shooter as long as the barrel is clean and dry. On a traditional rifle bullet it seems it would not do so well, but stick a pistol round in it where you are looking at short fat rounds and tumble is not as detrimental, and shouldn’t really start happening until some ground has been covered.

*You don’t have spin stabilization...not a rifle.
*It’s not smoothbore nor multi projectile...not shotgun
*Since it’s not ^^^ neither sbr or sbs rules apply. Seems to me it would be an Other.

Still not interested in product, just the loophole exploitation.

I think I won a prize. Yay. My crystal ball is properly calibrated.

 

[giggitygiggity]

The Reformation is about as useful as a poopy flavored lollipop. I could see maybe if it was under $500 or if it was accurate or if it shot far. An inaccurate $200 firearm that tumbles bullets at 50 yards... pretty useless. I’ll happily continue piecing together ARs for $500 and paying $200 for the tax stamp.

This has me thinking... what if we apply the straight rifling firearm concept to shotguns? What if Remington made 14” barreled 870s with straight rifling... would that be classified as a firearm? You wouldn’t want to shoot slugs, but what about shotshells where you might be shooting 40-50 yards max and don’t have tumbling bullet/range/accuracy concerns?

 

[lysanderxiii]

The Reformation is about as useful as a poopy flavored lollipop. I could see maybe if it was under $500 or if it was accurate or if it shot far. An inaccurate $200 firearm that tumbles bullets at 50 yards... pretty useless. I’ll happily continue piecing together ARs for $500 and paying $200 for the tax stamp.

This has me thinking... what if we apply the straight rifling firearm concept to shotguns? What if Remington made 14” barreled 870s with straight rifling... would that be classified as a firearm? You wouldn’t want to shoot slugs, but what about shotshells where you might be shooting 40-50 yards max and don’t have tumbling bullet/range/accuracy concerns?

Interesting can of worms....

There are rifled slugs are are designed to work out of a smooth bore, they are good for 3 to 5 inches at 100 yards with a bead sight, probably better with real sights. They would work quite well with straight "rifling".

 

[Browning]

The Reformation is about as useful as a poopy flavored lollipop. I could see maybe if it was under $500 or if it was accurate or if it shot far. An inaccurate $200 firearm that tumbles bullets at 50 yards... pretty useless. I’ll happily continue piecing together ARs for $500 and paying $200 for the tax stamp.

This has me thinking... what if we apply the straight rifling firearm concept to shotguns? What if Remington made 14” barreled 870s with straight rifling... would that be classified as a firearm? You wouldn’t want to shoot slugs, but what about shotshells where you might be shooting 40-50 yards max and don’t have tumbling bullet/range/accuracy concerns?

I don't know, but I like how you think.

However this could be how a future progression of events goes though. Just like how braces went from helping the handicapped shoot AR pistols to being on all kinds of guns that don't even have buffer tubes in their original design.

Then it could keep going until one day maybe the NFA is eventually repealed.