Stop before New York makes you undergo an identity check for entering the local home depot!
OK, this is the third improvised weapon post I’ve seen in the last 5 minutes. Is something getting ready to happen?
Stumbled on a list of a bunch figured they’d be better as multiple posts.
Various three-letter agencies be like:
Until you break NFA, ain’t shit the alphabet bois can do
I hope it’s guerilla PR for a new Dead Rising game!
How do you fire it?
Slam fire
John Kelly uses one of these in Without Remorse.
That was exactly what I was thinking of seeing these improvised weapons! Such a good book…
Exactly like it sounds from the name: You slap the cap containing the nail against the cartridge.
There are certainly better and slightly safer designs for this sort of thing, which aren’t much more difficult to construct.
Such as?
I’m curious.Use two pipes, a length of 3/4" galvanized and a shorter length of 1" galvanized. A 12 gauge shotgun shell will fit in the inner diameter of regular 3/4" pipe. Endcap on the 1" pipe with a centered hole and a sharpened screw through it. One handle hose clamped to each length of pipe at right angles.
Stick the shell in the end of the 3/4", slide it into the 1", bring both halves together smartly and off it goes bang. Hopefully while your personage remains intact.
Slap the end.
About as accurate as a stormtrooper that one
