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An MP7-Style PDW in 300 BLK? A Crye Patent Suggests So! -
Crye's patent US 11,105,574 B1, covers a hypothetical rifle-caliber PDW conceived to provide advantages over current existing layouts.
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CRYE PDW – THE BRIEF
The patent US 11,105,574 B1, generically titled “Firearm”, covers a hypothetical “compact rifle-caliber firearm” conceived to provide advantages over current existing layouts.As you can guess, the patent discloses solutions that would enable rifle caliber cartridges to be fed through the grip of the firearm. While the advantages of this configuration and the limitations that made it so far not viable may sound obvious to the TFB reader, the patent analyses them in-depth, and so shall we.
CRYE PDW – ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT COMPACT FIREARMS
The document identifies three main configurations of automatic (or semi-automatic) repeating firearms, based on the location of the feeding assembly relative to the grip:- Magazine in front of the grip;
- Magazine behind the grip (i.e. bullpup);
- Magazine through the grip.