Finn invents electric drill powered machine gun
An 80 year old Finnish man invented this .22 LR belt fed machine gun. It could be fake but looks legit and is plausible. Jani confirms it is real in the comments below.
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The approximate translation of the caption:
80-year-old hameenlinnalaisininoori developed drilling machine, the machine became a weapon, which became a speed of 420 shots per minute. suitable balance 22 caliber cartridges.
420 rounds per minute! Not bad considering it is powdered by a drill. For comparison a blowback MAC-10 machine pistol fires 9mm around at about 1,090 round/minute. It may use the blow back to reset itself after each round
A big thanks to reader illspirit for the link.
Hat Tip: Scanned image from naurunappula.com
It’s real. The guy got in a bit of a trouble for it.
Jani, you know how long ago it was?
i remember seeing that on some random web page of “homemade firearms” somewhere, long enough ago that i have no hope of finding it again. i don’t know when it happened exactly, but suspect it was several years ago at least.
non-babelfish translation of the caption: “an 80-year-old (civil) engineer from (the town of) Hämeenlinna developed this machinegun, whose rate of fire is 420 shots a minute, from a drill. the weapon takes 22-caliber rounds.”
Hämeen sanomat reported 24.11.2004 that the guy was not penalized but he was forced to give the gun to government permanently.
For those who understand Finnish:
http://www.hameensanomat.fi/?article=7168
very nice!
homemade rotary Vulcan
Nomen, thanks for the translation
Not a blowback… it’s pretty easy to see it’s a cam-driven system, the big drum there probably runs the bolt back and forth, and honestly with a .22 rimfire you could probably just have it crush the rim as it comes to the top of the travel, or trip a sear with another little projection/indentation on the drum.
I’ve thought of building such a thing for a long time, except hand-cranked so as to be legal.
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