Forgotten Weapons

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You might be thinking how could this bullpup pan-fed automatic pistol possibly be worse. It is also a blow forward design. Meaning the barrel physically moves forward to operate the gun each shot. This significantly increases recoil, and in theory decreases accuracy....

It has two muzzleloading smoothbore barrels, with a percussion cap hidden under each top ear of the crossguard and a folding trigger in the body of the grip....

These pistols are part of a deluxe garniture of ivory-stocked hunting arms made for Empress Catherine the Great (reigned 1762–96), whose intial (E for Ekaterine) is on the escutcheons of the grips. The garniture, which originally consisted of these pistols, a fowling piece dated 1786 (National Museum, Warsaw), and a rifle...

Fake it till you make it I guess.

John Dillinger's 1911 converted to full auto and .38 Super, complete with a Thompson submachine gun forearm....

The 40mm M79 Grenade Launcher used by the US famously in Vietnam, and in conflicts after that, had a radar system made by the Radio Corporation of America that would give an audio que to denote target range and speed. Almost like a mix of a policeman's speedometer and a range finder, on a grenade launcher. It apparently worked...

A barrel release mechanism slid into the mag well and allowed you to open the gun’s barrel and load a single rifle round into place....

For the non-Americans, the Lewis & Clark Expedition was ordered by President Jefferson in 1804 to explore the land acquired in the Louisiana purchase and beyond....

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This image comes from Cible Magazine #164...

Housing made of transparent plastic. Removed gas system, housing, handle, lock carrier, etc. for illustrative purposes....

The President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, visited Ukraine together with the President of Slovakia, Zuzana Čaputová on April 28, 2023. Both met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. On that occasion, President Pavel presented President Zelenskyy with a hand-engraved CZ 75 pistol from the Order of the...

Developed in the mid 1990s by South African designer Tony Neophytou, the Neostead 2000... was the first truly high-capacity shotgun put into production, with two magazine tubes over a single barrel... This configuration gave it a capacity of 12+1, and a selector switch allowed the shooter to control whether only one tube was fed...

Back in 2007/08 a company called Monolith Arms was promoting a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun they designed. The shotgun was notable because it fed from a horizontally mounted magazine inspired by the FN P90.  They shotgun was promised to be on sale in 2007, when they did not ship it in 2007 they promised it in 2008, but...

IED attacks in Iraq peaked in 2007....

Sorry it's in French / Grâce à moi c'est en français. The French version I found was higher quality. Here's and English one:...

Traumatic pistols are a class of less-lethal guns typically they fire rubber balls....

From a great article on the hunga munga:...

Psst now they're all gone check this out....

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Also known as the RO636, this direct blowback gun features suppressor made by Knight's Armament Company, and a shield deflector to block gas from the action from blowing back into the user's face....