Meet Israel’s Deadly Gilboa DBR Snake AR-Type Rifle (It Can Fire Two Bullets Simultaneously)

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February 22, 2019
Meet Israel’s Deadly Gilboa DBR Snake AR-Type Rifle (It Can Fire Two Bullets Simultaneously)

Good idea or a waste of time?
by Robert Beckhusen

Is this really a good idea?

The Israeli company Silver Shadow recently attracted attention for its double-barreled AR-type rifle, the Gilboa DBR Snake. For the most part, it’s an AR, uses AR parts and fires the 5.56-millimeter AR round. Except that it has two separate barrels, two magazines and two ejection ports — with two triggers as if two AR rifles had smashed into each other.

The two triggers are to make the Snake legal for civilian use in the United States, as  We Are the Mighty ‘s Blake Stilwell noted , citing ATF regulations for machine guns. But it’s easy enough to pull both, firing two rounds at once. 

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/meet-israel%E2%80%99s-deadly-gilboa-dbr-snake-ar-type-rifle-it-can-fire-two-bullets-simultaneously

[Elderberry]

Is this really a good idea?

Nope.

[240B]

I'm sure we all recognize that guns are just a modern means of throwing rocks, albeit hard fast accurate rocks at ultimate speed, but we are still just throwing rocks. This is fun, but it is just throwing two rocks at a time instead of one rock. Whether that is better or not would depend entirely on the situation.

A true innovation in field weapons would be the development of a Star Trek type phaser or a disruptor weapon. In terms of throwing rocks, there is always a point of diminishing returns.