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...
Psst now they're all gone check this out....
In 2004 the German company Heckler & Koch's product catalog was released at an industry trade show. Unfortunately their photographer didn't notice that their cartridges had been loaded backwards into the magazine....
The barrel is octagonal, slightly swamped and with a plain muzzle. Simple triangular foresight and a single backsight decorated by a concave forward section. The barrel is fastened to the stock by four pierced lugs underneath. On the upper surface of the barrel near the breech is a mon inlaid in silver in the form of a circle...
The Experimental Model 2 submachine gun was a pre–World War II Japanese experimental submachine gun chambered in the 8mm Nambu round....
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/25065...
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https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/11/09/four-forgotten-firearms-designed-mikhail-kalashnikov/
Bleeding Kansas was a period of violence spurred on by President Pierce admitting Kansas into the US as a state with the requirement it would vote as to if slavery would be permissable there....
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Approximately 2,500 Camp Perry pistols were marketed by Colt between the years 1920 and 1941. This unusual model was created by replacing the 6-shot cylinder of the .22 Officer's Model Target with flat "cylinder" containing one .22 cal. chamber. Camp Perry, Ohio is the site of the annual National Rifle and Pistol Matches....
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7c575d5e-2dce-4467-8ace-a3489d55ed3a.jpeg
Unlike traditional bows that use the tension of a string this design is based on pneumatics....
You might look at this and wonder which of the three triggers makes it shoot. The answer is both of them. One isn't a trigger, but is instead a magazine release. The others are for semi and automatic fire....
The halls of the fort saw the French defending German assaults firing off machineguns, grenades, and flamethrowers. Ultimately the French were forced to surrender after men became so parched they began to try and lick condensation off the walls....
Link to the video on them: https://youtu.be/psrZXa2WeQE?si=1MqolkrlDQa7dtvK
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fdd7dd46-6cb9-40c8-b602-19e26d85e804.jpeg...
“Since a regulation size football weighs 14 ounces, it was considered feasible to make a shaped charge grenade within this weight limitation. In addition, most US troops are familiar with throwing footballs,” according to the Army’s test report for the weapon....
Armour presented to King James I by Tokugawa Hidetada. Possibly originally for Takeda Katsuyori and modified by Iwai Yozaemon for presentation in about 1610....
Designed by Gerry Fox in the early 1970s, this carbine saw production sequentially as the Fox Carbine, the TAC-1, and the XF-7 Wasp, as it went through several different manufacturers. It is an open bolt, semiauto carbine sold in both 9mm Parabellum and .45 ACP – and you could get caliber conversion kits consisting of a bolt...
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The M-28 or M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. It was the first project assigned to the United States Army Weapon Command in Rock Island,...
