The Full Review of The Arsenal Double Barrel 1911
Our good friend Andrew of GY6 Productions has published his full review of the Arsenal Double Barrel 1911. I published the teaser video last week, but this is the full review showing the first 500 rounds he fired through it. After watching Andrew break this pistol in (with emphasis on “break”), I can only wonder if the designers of this gun even bothered shooting it before sending it our for production. You don’t buy a gun like this for the ergonomics, but at the price it is selling for, between $4000 and $5000, some chamfering on the beavertail would be nice.
When I published the teaser video I said this gun fired one round per trigger pull, I was wrong. It does fire two rounds per trigger pull. Maybe some of the legal eagles can explain in the comments how this gun is not a machine gun according to the BATFE interpretation of the NFA.
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I'd be quite upset by those minor flaws, but the number of failures seems very low for such a design, Arsenal did a pretty good job on that.
I've seen more than one disappointing review of custom grade 1911s unable to go through a full mag.
BTW, Andrew, shooting gloves are fairly cheap.
I've said it before. It's not the trigger nor the function that makes this legal. It's because the two rounds count as "one shot" since they leave the gun at the same time.
Edit: E.g. the fused hammer is a function designed to ensure both barrels fire simultaneously. Not only to prevent malfunctions but to be on legal dry land.
"Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily
restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual
reloading, by a single function of the trigger."