@PugJesusM to Historical ArtifactsEnglish • 4 months ago'Apache' revolver used by French gangsters, pre-WW1imagemessage-square8arrow-up127arrow-down11cross-posted to: forgottenweapons
arrow-up126arrow-down1image'Apache' revolver used by French gangsters, pre-WW1@PugJesusM to Historical ArtifactsEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square8cross-posted to: forgottenweapons
minus-square@PugJesusOPMlinkEnglish3•4 months agoI’m thinking it’s mostly a weapon of intimidation, personally, but what I don’t know about pre-WW1 French gangsters fills libraries, lmao
minus-square@j4k3linkEnglish2•4 months agoSeems like the kind of thing that might be created to circumvent a poorly written law. Like the Gandalf AK meme; ‘ANY knife under 6in is legal’ kind of nonsense. Amended: ‘ANY knife under 6in without a gun barrel is legal’ Response: (image)
I’m thinking it’s mostly a weapon of intimidation, personally, but what I don’t know about pre-WW1 French gangsters fills libraries, lmao
Seems like the kind of thing that might be created to circumvent a poorly written law. Like the Gandalf AK meme; ‘ANY knife under 6in is legal’ kind of nonsense.
Amended: ‘ANY knife under 6in without a gun barrel is legal’
Response: (image)