2014 SHOT Show Slide Fire BFR Belt Fed Rifle

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This was displayed at the Media Day event as well as the actual show.
Unfortunately, it was not running properly at the range, so I was not able to fire it.

It is a conversion mechanism for a standard AR-15. It cannot truly be called a "drop-in" as there needs to be some machining done first to the lower.
However, the unit can be instantly removed and then the gun can feed from a standard mag as normal.

As some specific machining needs to be done to the AR15 lower, the idea is to buy the entire package, gun and feed mechanism.
IIRC (I didnt write it down...), the cost is around $6000. Bloody expensive at first glance, but WAY cheaper than a transferable Full Auto in the USA.

Of course, this is all academic in Canada as the SlideFire is already banned...

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Neat idea. Not exactly a brilliant move to present it at SHOT and it doesn't work properly. You would think they would bring an extra just in case and make absolutely sure they both work.
 
Why is it banned here? Obviously slide fire stocks are illegal but why a belt feed system? There are plenty of NR belt feds in the country.....
 
Dumb, for less than 6 g's you could get a real full auto M11 and it would appreciate in value.

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fenceline said:
Weren't designed for full auto???
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I suspect he may refer to "heat". AR barrels typically are on the light side of the spectrum; sustaining automatic fire with this firearm won't last. At best you'll get to keep it running on bursts; in which case the belt increases ammo cap.


It's one of those things that's fun and cool to see people get creative in "making things work", but at the end of the day you have a civic with a fart can to make it sound like a muscle car. It won't perform the way you want a muscle car to perform and is really just a pony in a dress. Why not get the muscle car instead?


Cool idea, cool engineering, definitely fun idea; but impractical for true use. Military and Private Security forces are more likely to spend less money and have a weapons platform that's far more superior for the role that this tries to fill.


Also; will probably be prohibited import as its modifying a firearm; not a straight up factory build. I'm not sure what the regs are on belt fed in Canada with the whole mag cap either ((but I know there are some legal belt feds out there)).
 
RageStation said:
Also; will probably be prohibited import as its modifying a firearm; not a straight up factory build. I'm not sure what the regs are on belt fed in Canada with the whole mag cap either ((but I know there are some legal belt feds out there)).
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Modifying a gun isn't illegal. Bump fire stocks are. Belt feds are legal. If they are pre-1946 then they are unlimited.
 
fenceline said:
Modifying a gun isn't illegal. Bump fire stocks are. Belt feds are legal. If they are pre-1946 then they are unlimited.
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So these being post 1946 there would be a five round cap? Again why bother?

Also I thought modifying a semi-auto to increase its capacity was illegal. To my knowledge it was only rifles that were designed from the factory and could not be loaded with only five rounds that would be exempt from this rule (such as the M1 Garand).
 
Shep546 said:
They were not designed for sustained full auto use.
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Guys have been running double 100 round drums on them for years ... Besides , whats the difference if you pump 300 rounds through your gun one 30 round mag at a time or you just run belts through it ? Im sure its not idea but they are battle riffles ... I don't care if the upper is burnt out at the end ... They are still making more !
 
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