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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't wait for kits to be available at my local Home Depot.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You even can buy .22 blanks at Home Depot already

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They fire just fine in a 22lr firearm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

80% Sten receivers are already all around you, you’re just not seeing the piping from the conduit…

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The belt is hilarious. This big ass gun with a drill and and stand, and these teeny tiny little bullets

[–] ember 5 points 1 year ago

It's like the US's "less than lethal" options in the 70s

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope this is in the next fallout as a buildable weapon.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "finish finisher" if you will

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It was right there too! The world needs you, it really does.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

When your neighbor is Russia, you have to be creative.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Tony Svark made this in a cave....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

7 bullets per second. Niiiice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's really quite good.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Not just any Finnish man but a Finnish engineer!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How the hell does this work? I get using the drill to drive the belt but what's making it shoot?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I couldn't find any details and the picture is way too grainy to tell, but it looks like the piece in front of the drill is probably making a small bolt reciprocate forward and backward, so as the round is lined up with the chamber the bolt would push it forward into battery and strike the primer firing the round, then move the bolt backward again and turn the belt to line up the next round. You'd have to match the space between the rounds on the belt to the timing of the bolt reciprocating for everything to line up correctly.

The way you'd do that in a normal gun without a drill powering it would be to use the pressure from the gun powder igniting to also push the bolt backward as it pushes the bullet forward, and then a spring would push it back forward to chamber the next round from the magazine and fire it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those would be my two guesses. Either a drilled controlled reciprocating bolt or straight blowback with a spring tuned for a certain setting on the drill.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I was also thinking just regular blowback at first, but it doesn't look like this system would actually be able to strip the round from the belt to fully chamber it (it looks like spent casings still on the belt in the photo), so I'm guessing the round is being pushed into the chamber with just enough headspace to seal to fire the bullet, and I don't think that would actually send the bolt backward to cycle it.

I'm kind of surprised the casing would be able to handle that kind of pressure without just exploding with no barrel around it, if that's the case. I guess .22lr is either just underpowered enough, or maybe the slots in the belt are reinforced somehow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well 22LR is rimfire, so, just a well-angled impact could set the round off

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think, technically, this is a chaingun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing it has it's own podium with a glass bowl covering it inside the police evidence locker.

"...and this is the favourite weapon of The Handy Killer... not really, it belonged to some farmer, but yeah..."