PIPE SHOOTS THROUGH ITS STEM (Feb, 1933)
PIPE SHOOTS THROUGH ITS STEM
Though innocent enough in outward appearance, a novel type of firearm disguised as a smoking pipe serves as a formidable weapon when it is needed. The gun fires a .25 caliber cartridge. Its stem unscrews for loading, while the bowl of the pipe serves as a magazine for five extra rounds of ammunition. A knurled screw near the center serves as a trigger, and fires the pipe pistol when it is pulled back as illustrated in the photograph above, the user sighting meanwhile along the length of the stem. A German inventor is responsible for the unusual weapon.
Smoking can kill you…
The “barrel” appears to be hovering over his wrist. I wonder how it’s supposed to be held.
And I appreciate your posting a Bond-like device today, as it’s just been announced that Lois Maxwell (who played Miss Moneypenny) has died.
Saw that in a movie.
A gunsmith has a gun hidden in his pipe.
A gunman laughs at him for aiming a pipe at him.
I think that’s the movie where he befriends
Indians after showing them science tricks.
(Like a silk handkerchif held infront of a gun barrel
is pushed away by the air of the moving bullet.)
The Dude Goes West 1948 Eddie Albert
http://imdb.com/title/t…
So what happens when you pick up this pipe for actual smoking by mistake and try to actually light it while there are 5 rounds in the bowl? I suppose I could guess…
Who needs a swordstick when a pipe-gun is available. One for the Christmas list.
I’ve seen a color photo of something like this before – see this Belgian site.
Which is it – tear gas or bullets?
http://blog.modernmecha…
Two different magazines, same picture – coincidence, or conspiracy…?
And THAT’S why you can’t smoke in airports anymore.