Really? A double barrel 1911? Really?

That is not a handgun, it's a handsgun...

 

I have never owned a derringer, but aren't there some that are double barreled with one hammer? Why would this be NFA and not the derringers?

 

I imagine it will have a fairly short lifespan. There is bound to be some variation in primer timing so you will have one round firing before the other. Granted it will be a minute difference but it will have one side shooting before the other and will experience some off balanced loads on the gun. I suspect rapid wearing.

 

What's better than a 1911?

TWO 1911's!

 

Mall ninjas everywhere are drooling like a Redbone Hound that chomped down on a fat toad...secure in their beliefs that they finally have a weapon that will let them prevail in a wild firefight with terrorists or biker gangs that could take over their towns at any moment. What a glorious day that will be as the bodies are stacked like cordwood, and buxom women will fairly swoon as they emerge from the carnage and search for more targets...steely-eyed and determined...resolved to rid the gentle folk of the threat.

"What is it for?"

Why...to sell, of course!

 

Awesome link, but there is a whole thread already going-on about it in the semi-auto subforum

 

D'OH!

 

I'd even carry one!



































(from the truck to the shooting bench)

 

All of these people having problems keeping their 1911 in firing order and you're gonna add another barrel to it?

I have fat hands so I could probably hang on to this big fella.

I'd buy one before I bought a Glock.

 

The AF2011-A1 ("Twenty Eleven" for aficionados) can be ordered either with 2 independent triggers and one sear group (left or right, with user-interchangeability for right or left operations) or with 2 triggers permanently joined and the choice of 1 or 2 sear groups.

the last paragraph in the video's description..

the problem is the option of firing both barrels with a single trigger pull..

if you have two independent triggers and two sears, there shouldn't be a problem in owning this.. i.e. it's two 1911s fused.. and you'd be able to fire both barrels pulling on two separate triggers..

to each his own.. i guess...

 

Almost a truly ambidextrous firearm, but they forgot about the ambi-safety

I guess that would have been to much for the IWB holster

 

A novelty gun. Good for collectors to keep as conversation piece.

 

It looks a hair thinner than a Glock ;-)

 

that is enough to set my head spinning

Is it smaller than the .45 Hi Point?

I would not like to get into an argument with LE over whether that is or is not a machinegun in "the meaning given such term in section 5845(b) of the National Firearms Act (26 U.S.C. 5845(b))." If you follow FEDERAL FIREARMS REGULATIONS REFERENCE GUIDE 2005 (atf-p5300-4.pdf)

it would be very easy for that to be reported as a machinegun, whether it is or isn't technically.

I notice previous posters have noted my reservations about the effect of a misfire. I would hope that one barrel alone would not have the recoil impulse to unlock the slide.

Bottom line: I think it would be useless to me, but cool in a movie universe way: it looks like a prop from one of the "Underworld" or "Hellboy" movies.

 

191a1

 

I'd rather have one in each hand. No thanks

 

What's better than a 1911? Nothing. unless it's 2 1911's

 

What in the world is anyone supposed to do with that?

This is for people with too much money.

 

Maybe 2011?

 

Absolutelly nothing

 

You know, that gun would pose some creative malfunction clearing challenges. I would guess that having a problem on one side would be harder to clear than with a single barrel 1911. Having a problem on both sides would be really hard to deal with. Having a different problem on each side would boggle the mind. Some types of problems would require an encyclopedia of knowledge to work through such as a double double feed and the dreaded chain malfunction where the actions of clearing the malfunction on one side then induce a malfunction on the other.

I think I will hold off my order until these have been beta tested for a few years.

 

I'm gonna wait till it comes out in 10mm.

 

Another 19111911 maker

http://www.arsenalfirearms.com/products/af-2011-a1-double-barrel-pistol

 

This is what happens when someone has to much time and machinery on hand

 

I'm not gonna bash it as from just an engineering exercise point of view - it's mildly interesting but I do have a question regarding functioning.

If pulling one trigger only fires one round, does it not eject an un-fired round from the other side?