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An odd duck of a pistol

I was looking at a 2008 gun price magazine and found this oddity.

http://eaacorp.com/witness-fcp-description.html

http://www.eaacorp.com/witness-fcp-TP.html

http://www.eaacorp.com/images/WitnessFCP.jpg

Is it just me or have EAA designed a firearm that doesnt even come close to any kind of known action on the market (IE: truly unique?)???

Has anyone seen one of these up close and personal?

Theres not too much information out there but heres some excerpts

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This pistol gets my 'bleeding edge technology' award. This is a mid-size semi-auto, polymer pistol that has a very unique barrel/action system. The round that feed fire is inserted into a 'shotgun-like' shroud. This 'round' is then inserted into a magazine and the action looks like it fires from an open bolt condition. I state from the brochure, "The Patent pending fast cycle tube chambers eliminate the need for expensive magazines. Simple inexpensive, reusable tubes that encase each round and act like self-contained chambers." BUT check this out - The brochure says that you can fire .38 Spl! Just what I always wanted...a .38 special auto! What nirvana!
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3500.html

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Anyone got anymore info on this bizarre firearm? Supposedly EAA introduced it at the recent SHOT show, and it is listed on their web site and in a downloadable brochure. Instead of a traditional magazine it uses "chamber tubes" that you place each round in separately, resembling something like a shotgun shell. The gun (different models I assume) supports 380ACP, 38 Special, 38 Super, 9mm, 40S&W and 45ACP. Once you have individually loaded one round into each of them, I assume you load these "tubes" in from the bottom of the grip where it looks like a magazine is inserted? What's the deal with the crazy looking ejection port? Or is it an ejection port? It looks like the barrel and slide might separate just forward of the "port".

The only advantage I can think of to this is that possibly all of the .38/9mm calibers could theoretically be shot from the same gun/barrel if the tubes actually act as the chambers.

Otherwise I don't see any advantage to this at all, and a big disadvantage in reloading. Maximum capacity on all calibers is six and it is DAO. Congratulations EAA, you just made a semiautomatic pistol equal in trigger pull and capacity to a revolver, and much slower to reload. What are they thinking?
http://glocktalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=655024

EDIT _ BTW_THE_SLIDE_DOES_NOT_MOVE!!!