Weird and wonderful

[Spartan198]

[Chitoryu12]

Download the GURPS High-Tech Pulp Guns sourcebooks. It's loaded with all sorts of period firearms from the late 19th century up to the 1930s, including weird ones like the HDH Mitrailleuse (basically that revolver up there, but with only 2 barrels).

I always have trouble finding it, but there's a website detailing pocket pistols (mostly early 20th century ones) and there's a .25 ACP pistol where you don't take the magazine out after the gun is empty. You just shove the new mag straight into the magwell and it pushes the spent one out the ejection port. I can think of a few ways that could screw up, but it would be a neat trick for a sci-fi pistol.

[commando552]

Saw this on Forgotten Weapons the other day:

It is the Landstad 1900 Automatic Revolver, and is basically a two shot revolver where the top chamber is in line with the barrel and the bottom chamber is reloaded from a box magazine (which to add to the bizarreness is inserted sideways into the gun and is the left grip panel).

[Nyles]

Arrizabalaga Jo.Lo.Ar, made in Eibar, Spain during the 20s. Unlocked breech 9 x 23mm Bergmann with a tip up barrel (probably the first tip-up semi auto), no trigger guard or safety, and with a folding cocking lever. The whole idea was a pistol for cavalry that could be drawn, cocked and fired with a single hand, leacing the other on the reins. In practice, it just seems all kinds of unsafe! Only ever purchased by the Peruvian mounted police and sold commercially, saw some use during the Spanish Civil War.

[BlackIce_GTS]

LifeSizePotato has a review on one of those. Very informative, and he's got a lot of weird and obscure pistols.

[Rockwolf66]

Now can anyone tell me what this is?

[commando552]

Originally Posted by Rockwolf66

Now can anyone tell me what this is?

My guess is homemade as it has an AKM front sight, an FN FAL grip, and a backwards IMI Romat heat shield. What ammo is that thing feeding, belt looks like a 7.62x54mmR one but the bullets themselves look too short.