Firearm with rectangular barrel having non-smooth interior surface
View Patent ↗A firearm is provided that includes a receiver, a stock, an elongated barrel and a muzzle. The barrel extends from the receiver to the muzzle and has a rectangular internal bore extending from the receiver to the muzzle. The internal bore has two short sides and two long sides. A plurality of teeth extends along one of the short sides within the internal bore. The internal bore has an interior barrel surface that is a high friction surface.
1. An improved firearm comprising a receiver, a stock, an elongated barrel and a muzzle, the barrel extending from the receiver to the muzzle and having a rectangular internal bore extending from the receiver to the muzzle, the internal bore having two short sides and two long sides, the internal bore having a plurality of teeth along the internal bore along one of the short sides, wherein a disk-shaped bullet fitting within the internal bore may be fired from the firearm, wherein the improvement comprises the internal bore having an interior barrel teething surface that is a high friction surface.
2. The firearm of claim 1 , wherein the high friction surface is a roughened surface.
3. The firearm of claim 1 , wherein the high friction surface comprises a silicon carbide coating.
4. The firearm of claim 1 , wherein the high friction surface has a coating bonded to and penetrating the interior barrel teething surface.
5. The firearm of claim 4 , wherein the coating is selected from a diamond chromium coating, a chromium coating and a nano-diamond coating.