Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Gear-Ratio-Accelerated? Yep, It's a Thing: French MAT 1955 Prototype" video.

  1. It’s incredible this had been proposed in the ’50s. You expect a contraption like that to have been proposed in late 19th / early 20th century (apart for the stamped steel receiver). Considering already the Mannlicher 1885 had an accelerator, and so the patents on way simpler and sturdier accelerator designs had long expired, there was no need to make it so complex. Not to say of the open bolt design, that was already a not so great idea in the 1932 Scotti Mod.X (and it was 1932), but the Scotti at least had a pretty lightweight bolt!
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