Arsenal Firearms' Double Barrel Pistol shoots two bullets at once
One full payload from the AF2011-A1 can deliver in three seconds
what would take a regular 9mm pistol almost ten times as long to fire,
including reloading
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It's been a popular design for shotguns for over a century, so why
not handguns? With a design that looks like two guns were melted
together, the new handgun from Arsenal Firearms is definitely a handful.
Thanks to the gun's dual barrels though, the AF2011-A1 Double Barrel
Pistol is capable of firing 16 rounds in a span of three seconds by
shooting two bullets at the same time.
Arsenal Firearms produced the double-barreled handgun to commemorate
the 100-year anniversary of the Colt 1911-A1, which has been the
preferred sidearm of the U.S. Military since World War II. This
certainly isn't the first double barrel pistol ever made, but it is the
first .45 caliber, semiautomatic one built to industrial specifications.
Aside from the separate barrels, the rest of the AF2011-A1 is made of
conjoined parts, so that it uses a single slide, grip, and safety. It
can however be customized to use a single trigger or two separate
triggers, so the left and right barrel can be fired independently. Most
of the internal parts - firing pins, springs, housings, etc. - are
actually interchangeable with standard Colt 1911 parts. The pistol holds
16 .45 ACP rounds split between two columns, which connect to a single
base plate and can be loaded like a single magazine.
Arsenal says the gun can be handled like any other .45 caliber
handgun and is surprisingly accurate, considering its non-traditional
design. At 15 yards (13.7 m) from a target, all 16 bullets will group in
an area about the size of an orange; at 25 yards (22.8 m), that area
grows to about the size of a watermelon. The dual barrels also pack
quite a punch, with two bullets making up 460 grains of weight hitting a
target one to two inches apart from each other, depending on the
distance. That means one full payload from the AF2011-A1 can deliver in
three seconds what would take a regular 9 mm pistol almost ten times as
long to fire, including reloading.
