A number of the firearms you have seen reviewed on this blog, such as the SCARs, the FNAR, and the FNX-9, among others, were loaned to me by my friend “ferris2son,” as he is known on various firearms forums as well as this blog. He’s wheelchair-bound, but wasn’t willing to give up on shooting, so he came up with the idea to mount a rifle to his wheelchair. Using some barstock and a KZ Gooseneck mount, he’s able to attach just about any rifle that has a bottom picatinny rail, such as the Sig 556 you see in this video.
This was all well and good, but he still needed assistance when it came to pulling the trigger. Enter the Be Adaptive 12v trigger device, which attaches to the rifle and allows him to pull the trigger by “sipping” from a straw-like attachment on the device. Depending on how hard or with what cadence he sips on the straw, it apparently has a tendency to “double tap” – but I doubt that this is really much of a problem.
Although there was a minor malfunction in that the Troy rear sight wasn’t attached properly and thus fell off, the system appears to work very well. I think the next step is some sort of robotic reloading device, so that he can shoot mag after mag without assistance.
Don’t be silly: the next step is obviously tracks for all-terrain use.
And, of course, MRAP-level armor protection.
Should I stay light with perhaps a SAW, or go full-out with quad .50s?
Gotta squeeze a Mark 19 in there somewhere… 😉
I’d suggest something beltfed, like the Ares Shrike perhaps. Or a minigun. Can’t go wrong with a minigun, only trouble is it fires so darn fast you’d blow your ammo budget for a month in about a minute.
May the Almighty ease his suffering and help him and others to enjoy life to the fullest they can.
Thanks to you for bringing this to us so we all can realize how important fun is to add to a sane life.
That is excellent! One of my best friends has Muscular Dystrophy and his grip strength and trigger-pulling strength are constantly degenerating (along with other strengths and motor skills). He wanted very much to try my AR which I bought last year….we went to the range one day and he was frustrated at how hard he had to try to succeed at pulling the mil-spec trigger (his need for excessive effort to pull the trigger knocked his posture and grip out of alignment and opened his groups up very widely). I upgraded last week to a Geissele SSA for my own selfish purposes….but after trying it in dry-fire, I think there might be hope for his enjoyment as well. I’m happy to see that others are not letting disabilities prohibit them from enjoying the shooting sports.