Glock Carbine Patent Info

[JeeperCreeper]

I kinda hope it's ugly with poor ergonomics just to keep people angry...

It will sell as long as it runs.

Every new striker pistol that comes out is a "Glock clone" and they all sell.

Now every micro 9mm is a "365 clone" and they all sell.

AR15s are a dime a dozen and they all sell.

Just as long as price and quality are within a semblance of reason, they'll sell.

 

[Demi-human]

“...And an annular gas ring with two gas ports, engaging two action bars. Something never seen before...”

Unless one has a Troy pump action AR or purchased a cheap Turkish AR patterned shotgun.
Evidently it’s so cutting edge, shoeless peasants whittling rifles out of plumbing thought of it first.

About ten years late and three years since we’ve stopped begging. And they couldn’t be bothered with designing a different stock? All this constant hullabaloo about getting rid of the buffer tube and then they stick it back on.


(Okay. How did that look? Good? Alright, now where do I get these at? How long before I can say “shut up and take my money”?)

 

[gotboostvr]

I'm just happy it's not a Glock branded AR like most everyone else has churned out already.

 

[lysanderxiii]

1) If it is not available in 5.56mm NATO, they have doomed themselves to failure.
2) If it doesn't use an AR compatible magazine, they have doomed themselves to failure.
3) If the intended market is not government entities, they won't get much traction.

Glock is not that dumb.

And, everything I have seen in that patent, I have seen before. And, I see a lot potential for MIM parts in there, that would reduce the cost quite a bit.

Some other errors:

a) The two-part ambidextrous magazine catch system is similar to an AR-15 design, but without any springs.

What does he think item 4 is?

And, by the way the patent lists the inventors as :

Josef Kroyer
Elmar Bilgeri
Siegfried Sereinig

Credit where credit is due . . .

 

[CapnMac]

I would love an inexpensive folding carbine for very good and well thought-out reasons and not because I've been watching The Terminator since I could hold my head up high enough to see the tv.

The movie used a prop version of an AR-18. The AR-18 has/had two internal rails with springs on them instead a buffer tube, but the rest was out of an AR-15, just suitable for less-sophisticated machining.

The later AR-180s dropped the folding stock (for a number of reasons).

 

[OrangeCat]

Yeah I'm always a little tempted on the Brownells remake/update but never seem able to justify it.

 

[commygun]

“As soon as it's offered in .223 GAP!”


That’s what winning looks like, folks!

 

[mjsdwash]

The article says the annular gas piston surrounding the barrel is new and innovative. It looks much like the gas system on a Czech CZ-52 rifle to me.

its exactly like the 1100 remington too, though technically the annular piston is on the magazine tube not the barrel.

 

[OrangeCat]

If you want to you can find an early Italian machine gun/battle rifle that used a piston around the Barrel Ian McCollum did a video on it. The Breda PG. To me it seems similar in concept to the annular gas ring in the patent, looks like a decently simple system and if it works then more power to Gaston Glock