Franklin Armory Reformation – Defeat the NFA with NRS Barrel Technology

By Mike Searson

The cat may or not be out of the bag on Franklin Armory’s Reformation by now. We got to try it out first hand almost two weeks ago when people were speculating if it was a muzzleloader, 410 Shotgun, barrel permanently attached to the receiver, a trigger that fired on release or even a smooth bore. It turns out it was None of the Above.

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The simple answer was the use of straight cut lands and grooves, meaning that there were no spiral cut lands and grooves to impart spin on the rifle’s projectile. Although it does retain a standard chamber.

Franklin Armory’s NRS barrel technology stands for “Not a Rifle or Shotgun” and because the barrel does not impart any spin on the projectile, it does not meet the definition of “rifling” according to ATF’s Technology Branch.

I tried not to make that too confusing.

Let’s look back a little:

On August 3rd of 2017, the Chief of the Firearms Technology Division of the ATF confirmed that a firearm equipped with a stock and …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand