US Patent Issued to TMP Weapons on Sept. 9 for "Multiple-barrel firearm and method of use" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,982, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TMP Weapons LLC (Reno, Nev.).

"Multiple-barrel firearm and method of use" was invented by Joshua Phillip Alexander (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Wade Karl Schmidt (New River, Ariz.) and Stephen McKinnley Estep (New River, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine gun comprising a gun housing; a rotor assembly positioned within the gun housing; a barrel cluster including a plurality of barrels extending forward from the rotor assembly; one or more vents providing a path for expulsion away from the rotor assembly of gases emanating from a cartridge chambered in one of the plurality of barrels; and o...