I’ll post a comment to show how you’re ment to hold it.
Often regarded the worst firearm ever made, the Zip 22’s release was the death knell of the up till then successfull company, USFA.
It’s known for it’s horrid ergonomics, unsafe design, and dubious marketing as a ‘less lethal’ device. It also isn’t reliable.
The cocking lever is right next to the muzzle and requires that you to put your hand next to the muzzle, of a firearm that is about to be loaded & chambered.
They did have in their catalog an attachment to let you mount it to a rifle. Directly from the company’s description “Why use a duty round when less force will do? Or test that object in the middle of the street.”
Please do not shoot items you can’t identify properly or use 22lr as a form of ‘less lethal’ force. 22lr is still just lethal force.
You hold it like this:
Switch it out a bit. The middle finger can do some too for a change.
I would like to present a challenger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7291bGZEXY
(I honestly thought that my memory of that video was the product of a fever dream)
The Altor’s trigger definitely earns it a spot among the worst but at least it functions as intended as is half the MSRP.
22lr is “less lethal” in the way that stabbing someone with a pocket knife is less lethal than stabbing them with a sword.
Also, I love that it has the world’s smallest underslung rail. For when you need half a flashlight to get even more in the way.
Video of someone using it. The cocking mechanism 😳
I don’t understand how this even got past the early design stages without someone saying “yeah no, seriously, what’s the real design gonna be?”
It was a private company and the boss’s plan. Until then he had some not terrible ideas.
Ah. Okay. Thanks for the context!
They did have in their catalog an attachment to let you mount it to a rifle. Directly from the company’s description “Why use a duty round when less force will do? Or test that object in the middle of the street.”
Charitably, I don’t think this is saying .22lr is less than lethal. I think it’s playing to the fear of overpenetration. It’s asking, “Why shoot 5.56mm inside this apartment building when you can shoot .22lr?” It’s the same kind of thinking and marketing that lead to the American-180.
Which is still super flawed, but not as flawed as calling .22lr less than lethal.
