Belt Fed AR15

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Forget the 10 round pistol magazines..

hmm are loaded belts illegal in canada????


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There is quite a bit of controversy that disentegrating links do not constitutute a "belt" and there you could link as many as you want BUT I don't know of any court cases out there that confirmed it.
 
Forgetting the legalities of round capacity - does anyone even sell belt fed ARs in Canada? It would be awsome if you could buy just the upper, although I am not sure if the lower is somehow involved on a belt fed AR. How does a belt fed AR work anyway? Is that a pop in part where the magazine would be, or is that part of the lower?
 
You would be okay if you had a pre-1945 DESIGN belt.... but to my knowledge I don't think any would fit 5.56mm.
 
By my educated guess, it appears the bolt moves that large block at the rear of the receiver up and down. This then pivots the big hunk of aluminum around the belt, which advances the belt forward by one. It then pivots back down as the bolt moves forward, and the spring loaded feed pawl rides along the top of the rounds until it falls into place on the next round. Repeat.

chopper 1 said:
Pre 45 cloth belts are ok - any length
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as I'm sure you know, there is no such thing as pre-45 belts for 5.56mm.
 
Wow, I would start working on the IA's for all of the stoppages. It looks weird to see the belt upside down. You would figure there would be some kind of Stoner m-63 type design variant which has belt feeding in mind. It would be nice to see a video of that thing firing
 
I'd love to see the insides of this little rig to see just exactly how the mechanism works. Similar no doubt to a M249/C9 mech but I'm wondering how they crammed what normally is a beefy action into a slim AR receiver.:rolleyes: One of the small problems when your studying mechanical engineering and your a firearm enthusiast, you're always wondering how everything works.
 
My guess: upside down links, bolt works pretty much the same as a normal AR, links fall down thru the empty mag well, and some sort of arm in the top cover feeds the linked ammo.

Michael J said:
Belt probably feeds underneath the bolt where the magazine should normally be. Looks funny as beltfeds usually have the belt feeding from above the bolt.
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I went to Google to look for it under "belt fed ar15" and came up with this instead!
.brpguns.com/xmg.htm
 
I wouldn't mind something belt-fed, but you are still subject to the 5-round limit. In the US when there was a mag limit, basically it was pre-94 links only and you couldn't link more than ten at a time if they were newer than that.
 
Heh - If you assembled it as a pistol, you could link 10 rounds together? After all, you could say that linking the rounds together counts as manufacturing the magazine :p
 
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