Webley-Fosbery 1937 |
I was out wandering around on the internet and I stumbled across a mention of the Webley-Fosbury revolver. I had heard of Webley's before, but I didn't recall exactly what Fosbery had to do with it, so I went a-looking and I came across a post on Analog Periphery [dead], which not only had a picture of the Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver, but also had a picture of a more recent automatic revolver, the Mateba Unica Model 6,
Mateba Unica Model 6 |
Blade Runner Blaster |
An automatic revolver uses the recoil from firing to advance the cylinder and cock the hammer. They are kind of kin to the steam turbine locomotive: a mechanical experiment that was never a real practical success.
Update September 2016 replaced missing pictures, noted dead link.
1 comment:
Then there is BP company director's roulette.
It's like Russian Roulette, but Obama gives them a pistol instead if a revolver ;-)
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