

(So instead of having to break down a slide assembly, you just have to pop open a section to pull out the bolt carriage like in an AR so you can just plop a new one in there as a replacement in case of failure) I'd guess it would give the advantages of minimal actively moving parts due to blowback/piston driven action and could have made the entire mechanism easier to use while in Powered Armor.Īlso wouldn't be surprising if the entire bolt assembly was designed for easy extraction for maintenance with gloved hands either. (maybe even have something use the escaping gases to push it out of the rear of the cylinder? Who knows? But it would have the interesting behavior of casing extraction happening only if the first shot is done.so you're ejecting casings which were already fired rather than just spitting them out immediately during cycling.curious) Both ends of each chamber feeds into the rear of the rotating cylinder, with an ejection mechanism to the left to either self extract the fired casing or drop it out in some way. The bolt/slide would be in the upper chamber, with the magazine feed in the lower chamber. So one could theoretically go with an over/under styled design. Minimize maintenance and moving parts due to force.

Minimize the possibility of a failure to extract. Mass (heftier to deal with the forces involved) Well.take into consideration if someone were to try to make a handgun which uses a rather large round, you'd need to fit a lot of requirements.
