Welcome to as we speak’s Photo of the Day! Here we’ve a particularly fascinating bullpup however it’s a pistol! This is a Boberg XR9-S which is a professional bullpup pistol that includes a rotating barrel which isn’t widespread by as we speak’s requirements. This thought got here from Minnesota native Arne Boberg. After exiting an engineering job he went on tinkering with firearms design and the outcome was this line of bullpup pistols in each 9mm and 45 ACP. The design needed to fully redo numerous accepted pistol mechanics to accommodate the bullpup mechanism. As already acknowledged it had a rotating barrel which isn’t all that widespread in handguns (the Steyr 1912 has a rotating barrel) and the journal needed to be reconfigured so every part labored backward. The cartridges are pulled backward out of the journal and shoved ahead into the chamber. The firm was based in 2009 and his first 9mm hit the market in 2011. The 45 was launched in 2014 however these pistols had been across the $1000 mark so that they actually didn’t enchantment or promote all that nicely due to the value tag. Boberg would go on to promote the design in 2016 to Bond Arms which nonetheless makes and sells them as we speak.
“With matching factory case, papers, lock, and an extra magazine”
Lot 13: Boberg Arms/Bond Arms Model XR9-S Pistol with Case – . (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved November 14, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/2055/13/boberg-armsbond-arms-model-xr9s-pistol-with-case.
