http://www.gunsandammo.com/2012/03/12/double-barrel-pistol/#comment-86895

It may come as a surprise to some (and boy, do I feel like a cantankerous old geezer for saying this,) but firearms are a mature technology. We all have to be aware that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should"

Following the invention of the double column magazine by Deudonne Saive, there really haven't been a whole lot of original ideas coming out of the handgun industry for the last 75 years. Yes, I know, underqualified hacks like me will tell you all about the latest whizbang doodad from SHOT show, but in comparison to say, the medical field, it's really just the refinement of existing technologies and the application of new materials from other industries, combined in many instances with hyperbolic marketing.

Which brings me to the AF2011-A1 double barrel pistol from Arsenal Firearms. If you listen carefully to the video, you can almost hear the dialog in the meeting that lead to it's creation. "Hey Franz, we've got a couple of spare 1911′s and a MIG welder. Any clue what we can do with them?"  Either that, or they hired a recently-graduated business consultant who mistook the South Park underpants gnomes episode as an instruction manual.

According to Aresenal's site,  the AF2011-A1 is the "very first industrial double barrel semiautomatic pistol of all times." But wait there's more. They're claiming that they are making this "true industrial market-ready double barrel .45 caliber pistol" to commemorate the Colt 1911-A1 in the Centenary.

It is offered either with two independent triggers and one sear group or with two triggers permanently joined and the choice of one or two sear groups. You can pick up one of these wunderkinds in mirror finish Deep Blue or with a 3400 Vickers surface hardness White Ash Nitrite coating.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a brilliant idea that involves a couple of Glock 17s and a tube of JB Weld...

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This would be fun at a party!

Hmmm, double the kick?
It could be useful for the slightly sight impaired, one reg round and one snake shot round.

Gun porn is that recoil-free 12-guage auto-shotgun used in The Expendables.

Recoil free. 30-shell clips, emptied in about four seconds.

Said, yowza!

Well I, for one, don't know how I've lived this long without a marvel such as this. I just wonder what it would cost to have a three-barrel auto-pistol made? Perhaps an episode of "Sons of Guns" could have Will and crew building a four-barrel 1911?

Ahh dream a little....

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