If you were going to start a firearms manufacturing concern ...

[Quirt Evans]

You mean like THIS?
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Would LOVE to make new ones of these only in modern chamberings like .45/70 .45/90 and .50/110!

This one is a .44 cal. Mk-IV carbine

The gas-blow from the barrel-cylinder gap hitting your arm is/was the death knoll of those designs.
That, and the weak cylinder wall thickness, unless you had a gigantic cylinder,, not to mention the timing issues.
They were never a good design from an engineering standpoint.

 

[CountryGent]

A modernized Webley-Fosbery, in .44 Magnum, .454 Casull, and the aforementioned (and quite fictional) .577 Trueno. (The last one would require DD registration.)

 

[CamoDeafie]

Model 8/81 Remington but takes AR15 and AR10 type magazines (either the Armalite pattern or the SR25 pattern?)

 

[Andy54Hawken]

A Mauser type action sporting rifle with a wood stock and peep sights....in 5.56 or 7.62x39mm.
Which also used AR15 and or AK47 magazines.
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

Super compact, very light, carbines in .22 TCM. One an SBR semi-automatic, the other a miniaturized Mauser action.

 

[Ura-Ki]

The gas-blow from the barrel-cylinder gap hitting your arm is/was the death knoll of those designs.
That, and the weak cylinder wall thickness, unless you had a gigantic cylinder,, not to mention the timing issues.
They were never a good design from an engineering standpoint.

Not true at all!
I own 11 of them, 9 are 100% Original and in perfect shooting condition. None will flame cut you ( a Myth, they might singe your arm hairs) and the cylinders are all from one of two sizes, from .36 cal, to 54 cal. all are machined from the same billet to what ever bore was desired, from .54 cal up to .72, took the larger cylinder, again, bored to the required specs, and they are immensely strong! Timing is actually rock solid, they time from the spindle, not the cylinder, and the lock up is vastly stronger, more precise, and easier to tune for wear then the later designs from Smith and Wesson and such! If anything, they had too slow a twist barrels up to the MK-IV series, which shortened the length, and increased the twist rates which allowed them to stay valid far longer then one would have thought, well into the bottle neck cartridge era, and yet, for the bog bore needs, they remained far longer!

 

[CamoDeafie]

A Mauser type action sporting rifle with a wood stock and peep sights....in 5.56 or 7.62x39mm.
Which also used AR15 and or AK47 magazines.
Andy

While not quite a Mauser action (Mauser type trigger though), and being more like a Lee Enfield... theres the Cam rifle series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMS_Cam_rifle

And then theres this, also based on Lee Enfield but takes AK mags
AIA M10 - Modern Firearms

 

[Andy54Hawken]

While not quite a Mauser action (Mauser type trigger though), and being more like a Lee Enfield... theres the Cam rifle series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMS_Cam_rifle

And then theres this, also based on Lee Enfield but takes AK mags
AIA M10 - Modern Firearms

Very cool....you should get me one...
Andy

 

[Ura-Ki]

Why buy? If they're expired, they are public domain aren't they? Granted, my knowledge on the topic is limited but I do have one expired patent you can buy

Not entirely sure on the others, but both Colt and Browning retain ownership of their patents, but do list some for sale now and then! in 2014, colt was trying to un load a few, and that caught my attention, but alas, i'm just a poor middle weight working stiff,, and what would I do with them unless I have lots of folding cash to play with!

 

[CountryGent]

While not quite a Mauser action (Mauser type trigger though), and being more like a Lee Enfield... theres the Cam rifle series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMS_Cam_rifle

Neat-O.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Very cool....you should get me one...
Andy

I aint made of gold

 

[cigars]

40mm neighborhood mortar with an optional trailer hitch mount for the base plate.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I aint made of gold

Yeah...me neither....
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

Registered destructive device, long range rifle in something 20㎜. Rumor has it Mark Serbu was working on something like that, but I haven't seen it come to fruition. This is well out of my wheelhouse, but ... come on, 20㎜. (giggle)

 

[Boboclown]

I would be making AK12s, AK308s, and AK19s. Why? Cause its pains me we can't get this stuff here without a russian friend sending kits.

 

[UnionMillsNW]

I'd like to make quality WWII or classic firearms in common calibers.

Mauser K98 in .308
M1 Carbine in .357

Remington Model 8 in .357 or 9mm

That list could go on!

 

[Ownerus]

Not entirely sure on the others, but both Colt and Browning retain ownership of their patents, but do list some for sale now and then! in 2014, colt was trying to un load a few, and that caught my attention, but alas, i'm just a poor middle weight working stiff,, and what would I do with them unless I have lots of folding cash to play with!

Not sure how that would work. Patents used to be 17 years. I think they're now 20 years IF you pay the ever increasing maintenance fee. Any patent from Colt's heyday will be public domain. Copy away.

 

[Ownerus]

="UnionMillsNW, post: 2671465, member: 51220"

...Remington Model 8 in .357 or 9mm...

Pretty sure you'll need to repeal the laws of physics on that 9mm model 8.

 

[CountryGent]

A modernized Marble Game Getter:

• In .38 Special/.357 Magnum over a 20-gauge shotgun barrel, instead of the .22LR over .410.
• Offered in 12 and 15" barrels (AOW registered) or 18" (Title I).
• Super light, fold up design like the original.

 

[UnionMillsNW]

Pretty sure you'll need to repeal the laws of physics on that 9mm model 8.

You're right...better make it .50 BMG