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Revealed at SHOT - the Franklin Armory Reformation. You can have a pretend ...I'm not entirely sure what it's pretending to be. I took it to be an "NFA loophole" SBR, but it's not especially short, and it has no rifling in the barrel, so it isn't a rifle, but it has straight lands and grooves to keep it from being a shotgun and you can even get minute of angle accuacy, if you use their special bullets designed to make up for the idiotic barrel design, they claim, because it obviously won't hit the side of a barn with real bullets. To prove, beyond any doubt, that it is made solely for guys who live in their moms' basements and play video games all day, they included a binary mall-ninja-approved trigger.

Even the explanations by reviewers obviously trying to sound positive don't seem to be able to really say anything that would make this sound like a gun for anybody old enough to own a gun.

But at least it's only $2,000.

http://www.recoilweb.com/franklin-armorys-reformation-revealed-133042.html
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I have to hand it to them. It's thinking outside of the box. It's not like there is a ton of fresh innovation in the AR field these days. Not my thing, but I give them credit for the effort. I'm curious what the ammo cost and reloading components look like. I think it would be cost prohibitive to shoot, especially with a binary trigger.
 
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wct097 said:
I have to hand it to them. It's thinking outside of the box. It's not like there is a ton of fresh innovation in the AR field these days. Not my thing, but I give them credit for the effort. I'm curious what the ammo cost and reloading components look like. I think it would be cost prohibitive to shoot, especially with a binary trigger.
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Sometimes the box is there for a reason. Could be the box is so big that everything outside it is stupid.
 
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Bren said:
Sometimes the box is there for a reason. Could be the box is so big that everything outside it is stupid.
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Could be that everything in the box is boring and sometimes people want to see what is possible. I look at it as pushing the NFA envelope and I think there is some value there. Sure, it'll probably be banned in Cali if it isn't already, but it does start the conversation about why that's legal and why I have to pay an extra $200 because my barrel has twisted rifling. The more people see the ridiculousness of the law, the more support we get for changing it for the better.
 
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Actually that's sort of cool. I gather the fins on the bullet force air to turn it as it flies like fletching on an arrow. Sound like accuracy is good so the RPM does not need to be as high as you get from traditional rifling. I wonder what it is?

Hold the phone, if the round does not spin that fast you could probably use mercury tips to do some real damage.

Whoa...they call them footballs. Reality just hit home for me...hard. If you take the word football, rearrange the letters and use some different ones, you get fireball.

Now, if you take name Franklin Armory, use none of those letters, and substitute XP-100 you can clearly see it.

XP-100
Fireball
Mercury tips
 
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Bren said:
Sometimes the box is there for a reason. Could be the box is so big that everything outside it is stupid.
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This.

This is the stupidest thing I've seen in the gun world since Jesse James butt plug style suppressors.

Fin stabilized footballs, seriously?

I hope the ATF says no.
 
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Just pay the $200 fee, already.
 
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Not to mention ugly.

Wasn't there anything in their collective brilliance that could have made the thing.....I don't know......not ugly?
 
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