The Cameleon was a concept revolver designed by Czechoslovakian ice rink technician Karel Michalek. Michalek had wanted to make his own handgun, but was limited by government restrictions. In 1989, Michalek decided to construct a concept gun out of wood and epoxy resin.

  • g0d0fm15ch13f
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    1410 months ago

    Is there a rear sight? Otherwise I non ironically love this wheelie

    • @LowtierComputer
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      510 months ago

      There is. Look at the very top left of the image.

      • g0d0fm15ch13f
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        410 months ago

        Oh yeah, lookie there. I thought that was part of the cylinder catch.

  • Bezier
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    1310 months ago

    I can’t help but read that as Ass Magnum

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    1110 months ago

    Is that an SS mark? As in the white nationalist mark?

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          Look it’s possible this guy was a massive nazi, but I’m going to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re not nazis.

          To me it seems far more likely it’s related to .44 magnum with it being a magnum and all than the SS.

          People write digits in all sots of different ways:

          source

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            I mean its a cool design. It looks like something you would get late game in Duke Nukem 3D where it only holds 6 shots, but 6 is all you need.

            But the etching of those 44’s sure seems like someone is trying to write SS while having people defend it sayin nah its 44.

            Edit: Bruh I don’t see any SS marks on that table of numbers you provided. The marks on that gun are very very identical. More symmetrical than any other lettering on the barrel. Almost like they used a stamp or something for just those to marks in particular.

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              It’s just similar enough to the way that I write 4 (which looks more like a y) that I don’t really jump to that connection, but I can see how people who write the triangley fours might be sussed out by it.

              Also D3D was a fucking great!

              Edit: The 4th … 4? Just draw that a bit straighter and it’s the same thing.

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                Edit: The 4th … 4? Just draw that a bit straighter and it’s the same thing.

                Just draw that a bit straighter and bring in the angles and make it a bit more acute rotate about 45 degrees…

                wait a second …

            • @MooseLad
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              510 months ago

              Here’s a quote from the reddit thread about it

              I worked with a guy who wrote 44 like that. Romanian fella. We did a job where we had to write 44 on the ground with paint, in public, quite often. I never told him, I just hope it made it onto some hysterical local Facebook group at some point.

              So yeah, some people write fours like that. No need to create some weird Nazi conspiracy theory around this guy

            • @FireTowerOPM
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              410 months ago

              I think / hope he was going for an idea like this for a simplified 4.

            • @fluxion
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              210 months ago

              If you look at all the other lettering it becomes more believable that they just have an odd writing style

    • @[email protected]
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      Definitely doesn’t look like an accident. Maybe it was a good thing they didn’t allow him to have guns.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      I think it’s just a proof of concept mockup and not meant to be functional.

      I don’t think there’s an epoxy wonder-material on earth that would withstand the chamber and barrel pressure of a .44 magnum, and even if it did you’d still have rifling in it for about 0.2 nanoseconds.

    • g0d0fm15ch13f
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      I want a bullpup, low bore axis, auto cycling DA/SA revolver with a removable cylinder. Is that too much to ask?

      Edit: with light and optic mounting points

    • @FireTowerOPM
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      910 months ago

      Yikes yeah he got too creative with his 44

  • @PeterPoopshit
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    310 months ago

    I thought this was an ai generated picture at first