Wanna launch a 1/2-pound bullet at 2300 feet per second? It’s gonna cost you ($40 per round) and it’s gonna hurt. It may break your ribs when you fire it, but the .950 JDJ has one advantage over other cartridges in the 20mm antiaircraft category: it has an almost-unique ATFE ‘sporting use exception’ which allows you to own it without jumping through the burning hoops of fire completing NFA paperwork required for ‘Destructive Devices.’ All right Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-
I met a custom ammunition maker who’s willing to do the milling and lathing required to load up these beasts. Here I am posing with a [thankfully inert] display cartridge. And I am big; it’s the bullets that got bigger!
My friend Marco Rigido of New System Arms in Italy builds a bigger rifle – a full 1.00″ bolt gun firing 2500 to 2800 gr bullets. Not sure if they can be imported here. From what I understand the SSK round is allowed for civilian use by the ATF. The Rigido rifles are legal in Italy, though.
No thanks, much rather meet booth babes….
No interest.
I’d squeeze off a few.
I was always under the impression that a gun was something that only dished out pain at one end.
“Sporting Use”????
For what? Hunting armored cars?
More like locomotives!
Well, eventually deer might learn to hide behind trees. Really old trees.
They must have a heck of a scope and mount.
if i had one it would be in an artillery set up not going into my shoulder. just have an anti car gun. legit.
+1
I think that even the ATFE finally realized that an 80-pound, handbuilt, $8,000 single-shot rifle with handmade ammo that costs $40 per round is probably *not* going to be of any use to a criminal. It would take two or three of them to lift it.
Common sense, from the ATFE: who’da thunk it?
I have been a firm believer that – “Common Sense”, and – “Government” – isn’t synonymous! lol
Ready for dinosaurs.
Damn, that is light artillery with a stock.
Power factor = 8050; definitely makes major… ;->
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For when you only get one shot to stop a bear.
DOES IT COME IN A SEMI-AUTOMATIC?
How soon before Smith and Wesson builds a 3 shot revolver for it?
It would be very interesting to see the results of that shot (assuming they hit). Gotta figure not much in the way if petitioning, would love to see penetration through a row of…..whatever really….