Mega Rad Gun Thread

The Dude said:
I've always been kinda skeeved out by welded de-mil'd guns, especially rifles because of the higher chamber pressures and stronger forces at play compared to a pistol caliber platform. And that goes double for rifles/MGs that use stamped or extruded metal receivers instead of machined metal since you're dealing with less/thinner materials. I know it's probably irrational and welded rebuilds done by a competent welder are probably fine, but I would always feel like "Am I going to have a Kentucky Ballistics Fifty Cal moment when I pull this trigger?" if I were about to shoot one.
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There's always going to be that worry, but if it's to do with re-mil'd guns it should also be present with factory guns. It's not always going to blow on the first overpressure/proof loading. Fatigue will set in. The overall design, not the material, is what your safety relies upon and having redundancies will protect you as best it can. Better to explode forward or to the sides than to the rear, and the AK layout(by extention the VSS/VAL) is pretty good about that.
 
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Some good news today
 
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Pocket Dragoon said:
Tokarev with switch and extendo:
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I wonder what the cyclic rate is on that thing, and am kind of impressed it held together.
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pistols can handle automatic fire easily enough, nearly all of them had full auto models on offer at one point or another from the 1911 to the Glock. its just that outside of a telephone booth its basically useless and by the time of the MP5's generation of SMGs which could be easily concealed under a suit jacket, they were obsolete.
 
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I need a good gun safe that I can fit a suppressed 42 inch gun in. Preferable flat or thin I can shove under a bed. Bonus points if I can also throw a pistol in there.
 
Said to be a Famas previously owned by Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.
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At IDEX (at least probably at IDEX) Sig showed off an XM7 Iteration with no folding stock and an unsuppressed weight of 7.7lbs
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Chopped AK-12M1
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ASM with an M-lok rail AND the clamp on rail thingy
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US Serviceman holding an RPL-7 machinegun, probably one of the first if not the first American to ever do so
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Double barrel semi auto
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Colt CMG-3
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Some wacky 1911 conversion kit concepts
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Daewoo K2 prototypes in 7.62
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Someone's selling a Colt ACR upper (or a very convincing counterfeit) on gunbroker
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Bottom gun is a "modernized" Argentinian FMK-3
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Mossberg 500 Bullpup seized from a Venezuelan prison (South American prisoners seem to have a tendency to have lots and lots of guns while in prison yet make no effort to escape)
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CS/LS06 in Venezuela
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And a Vektor CR-21
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.40 S&W FAL based PCC prototype
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Apparently Springfield is going to be importing this very ugly PCC which HS Produkt calls the "Kuna". Springfield will probably give it a dumb name. Supposedly roller delayed with proprietary mags. Notable lack of GRIP ZONE
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Calico and a rusty Spas-12 seized from/surrendered by Colombian rebels
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Lee Enfield converted to 54R using a PKM barrel and Draganouv mags
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It has been recently brought to my attention that both the M60 series of machineguns as well as the Sig MCX/Spear series of rifles utilize a short stroke piston system that do not include piston return springs but have pistons are instead forced forwards by the forward movement of either the op rod or a protrusion on the recoil spring guide assembly. While I am not an engineer It would seem to me that this is a superior system as it includes less parts and one less spring that you need to worry about getting hot, getting damaged and eventually replacing. Is there any particular reason to go with a spring including design over a "free floating" one? off the top of my head systems with springs are much more common.
 
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Good morning Sig Saar's Give us 1 trillion lakh crore contract Saar very good QC Saar very good gas flow Saar Sig Sewer Pistons eliminate the back pressure Saar barrel not bendy saar factory feature
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HP7, a crackhouse MP9
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Khyber Pass 7.62x25 smg
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Uhh, I don't think metal strips less than 1/20th of an in thick are going to stand up to grenade launcher recoil
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GunCAD Dev Nikolai Romanov is working on a Gepard clone (expect him to be working on it for some time, dude has like 30 projects he's announced)
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Early rendering of a PDW by the guy developing the prototype MBAR rifle
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There's a PD out there with KAC KS-3's
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Ye Olde WML
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All that for like 5 lumens

One of the two warring self proclaimed leaders of Sudan, Al-Burhan, with a turkish MCR Clone
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From Olympic Arms
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Beretta PX4 Clone in 7.62x25 from Khyber Pass
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MA-13 smg, Myanmar's military dictatorship really did demand emphasize that their small arms be domestically produced
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Don't know what this is
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There was a concept for an SMG upper for the short lived AR-16 rifle.
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S&W N-frame converted to hold 10 .32 H&R Magnums
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M16 with a magazine fed 30mm grenade launcher
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"Dual Cycle Rifle" that apparently was able to leverage revolver cannon technology to achieve 4900rpm Hyperbursts. Unclear as to what it was supposed to feed from
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Colt Pocket Hammerless converted to be not so Hammerless
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HK417 Prototype feeding from G3 mags
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Franchi .410 bullpup, I have no Idea who would ever want this
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Operating mechanism and ammo belt of the Ares AIWS
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Modernized Type 79 Smg's
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Endangered Rhim Gazelles hunted by Libyan Rebels with a G36
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Custom M14 in the Gaza strip
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AEK-919 in Lebanon
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11 Idlibi Bullpup RPK's
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4 Bullpup PSL's
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3D Printed 20 round SVD magazine
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14 Val's looted from Syrian Government stocks now in Lebanon
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Syrian Army officer with a QBU-88 during training in China
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Syrian Army 9A-91's
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Daewoo K1A in Sudan, unclear how it got there
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Libyan Rebel posing with a SOCOM URGI
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Terrible photos of Suhayl al-Hasan (who used to lead the Syrian Army's Tiger Forces) with a Kochevnik with a quadstack
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Mass produced Mosin Modernizations in Idlib
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AR-10's in Sudan
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An Incredibly rare "flat top" model with a carry handle optics mount, apparently between 8-25 ever produced
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An an example in a Yemeni gunstore
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Lebanese Bullpup PKM
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Syrian Bullpup PKM
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