Steampunked Handguns?

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Savage 1907 ,German Luger ,Russian Nagant (sorry - no pictures at this time)

 

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7.65 cal
Revolver mfg by Belgian
Pierre Wertz

 

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Pretty interisting pocket revolver.
SMETS J.L.
Revolver of pocket hammerless known as “Uneven”.
The trigger without trigger guard is folding in a small housing under the frame.​

 

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Thomas Bland model #1 pistol

 

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Enouy's 48-shot revolver, c.1855.
Joseph Enouy of Middlesex, England. Enouy designed and patented his "compound magazine" revolver in 1855. It was a transitional percussion revolver with a large, rotating wheel that held 8 cylinders with 6 chambers each.

 

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Any time you have a firearm that has Brass parts that pretty much fills the bill of Steampunk.
The leveraction revolving gas-seal rifle thingy.

 

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Remington-Elliot pepperbox pistols
Bottom example is called the Zig-Zag

 

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Well this is a handgun in a way.
Pressureized Cabin Flare Pistols.

 

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Unknown maker
.22 Lr pump action handgun.

 

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Zulaica automatic revolver .22Lr

The unusual revolver was patented in 1905. It was never manufactured in great numbers and the majority of those did not survive particularly well. This was largely due to the fact that Zulaica started manufacturing 'Eibar' type automatic pistols under French army contracts in 1915, which were continued to be produced and marketed commercially up through the 1920s.
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The Bossu Revolver was a Velo-dog revolver of Belgian origin.

 

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Any time you have a firearm that has Brass parts that pretty much fills the bill of Steampunk.
The leveraction revolving gas-seal rifle thingy.

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To go along with the brass adorned lever actuated gas seal revolving rifle.
Here is another that is very Steampunk in nature but not looks.
A Ruger 96/44 lever action .44 magnum converted to a bullpup configuration and modified to feed, chamber and fire a belt feed mechanism.

Thats right a belt fed leveraction..44 magnum!

Here she is singing and dancing!


This cool rifle came from the oppressed and feverish mind of a British firearms owner!
UK Man Makes Compliant Belt-Fed Lever-Action .44 Magnum Bullpup

by MAX SLOWIK
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCxIN5kVdxG1WHc4qOn2j62A

 

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Bjørgum pistol of 1905



The Norwegian Bjørgum was operated using a short recoil principle with a rotating barrel. The barrel has a series of interrupted threads for locking. It is known to be very light and very crudely made; in fact, it is so light that many had reservations about shooting the gun. The weapon was fed by a 16-round magazine

 

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Sunngard automatic pistol, 6.5mm


The grip of the pistol is long enough front-to-back to store two identical magazines. The front magazine sits higher than the rear one, and the boltface on the slide feeds rounds from the front magazine into the chamber. Once the front magazine is empty, the shooter ejects it, and need only slide the rear magazine into the front position (and rack the slide) to continue shooting. There is a misconception that the pistol will fire automatically from both magazines in succession, but this is not true.
In addition to having the handy spare available, Sunngard designed the magazines to hold no fewer than 25 cartridges each (in the more common 6.5mm chambering). This gave the pistol a total of 50 rounds stored on-board, which was a major point in Sunngard’s marketing.

 

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Roth-Theodorovic- Krnka Pistol w/ Tambour Safety


About 80 of these Roth-Theodorovic-Krnka pistols were made, with no two quite the same.The design used a long recoil action and a rotating bolt.

 

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SWISS TRIALS, 9mm

Müller 1902 Prototype Pistol

 

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Unknown maker
.22 Lr pump action handgun.
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You know that looks like some one started with one of those Stevens model 70 visiable loaders.. I hate mucking up fun guns with legal talk, I would like to know the legal standing of this... Did someone make this or was it made in a legal manner.

 

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You know that looks like some one started with one of those Stevens model 70 visiable loaders.. I hate mucking up fun guns with legal talk, I would like to know the legal standing of this... Did someone make this or was it made in a legal manner.

My guess its a rifle that was shortened to pistol length.
Most likely was convertwd back in the 1950's and such things were not a issue.

 

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The Grebey automatic pistol is a prototype pistol, mfg shortly after WW2
This was in .30 carbine caliber.

 

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PROTOTYPE MARS HAMAL PISTOL, PATENT MODEL

 

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My guess its a rifle that was shortened to pistol length.
Most likely was convertwd back in the 1950's and such things were not a issue.

With the age of the gun it could have been done earlier.. But would it be an issue today because you have no way of proving when it was cut down.. now saying all that crap... I really liked that as a pump action pistol.. Seems like it would be fun

 

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The Grebey automatic pistol is a prototype pistol, mfg shortly after WW2
This was in .30 carbine caliber.
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That is flipping Buck Rogers

 

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Whats more steampunk than a pocket pistol?

Cobray Pocket Pal .22 LR/.380 ACP Revolver

Mossberg's Brownie and Cobray's Pocket Pal: rockin' pocket protection
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MOSSBERG'S BROWNIE AND COBRAY'S POCKET PAL: ROCKIN' POCKET PROTECTION
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Coming soon. The DoubleTap. (Photo credit: DoubleTap)​

We’re gearing up for a review I’ve been looking forward to for more than a year. DoubleTap, the hard-on-your-hand .45 ACP take on the classic derringer, is in-bound. It should be here next week. I’ve got boxes of ammo waiting and I’m feeling a bit masochistic.
It has been a long wait. Still, I love novelties and oddities and genuine innovations, so I’m being patient
While I’m waiting, I’ve been going back through some of the DoubleTap’s predecessors, checking out the way things used to be not that long ago, and I was wondering what ever happened to the Mossberg Brownie? As much as I like the promise of an over-under .45 ACP, I’d sure like to have the option of four barrels.
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“Just the thing to finish trapped animals.”​

THE BROWNIE

The history of the Brownie is fascinating. It was Mossberg’s first gun. It is, to date, their only pistol. The Brownie was introduced around 1919 or early 1920, and was in production until 1932. By that time, the Mossberg .22 rifles had taken over and production of the Brownie stopped.
The gun is small: 4.5 inches long. The barrels are just 2.5 inches. Despite its size, it still has four barrels. When the trigger is pulled, the hammer cocks and falls on a rotating firing pin that progresses sequentially from barrel to barrel. It doesn’t have much in the way of mass, at only 10 ounces, but it shoots rounds as light as .22 shorts, one at a time, so recoil isn’t really an issue. For a gun that’s so decidedly small, it is wide (owing to the alignment of the four barrels in an over/under and side-by-side fashion).​

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A Brownie, devoid of its bluing. (Photo credit: Cowan Auctions)​

The latch that holds the barrels to the frame protrudes from the back of the gun. It is easy to open, and allows for rounds to be extracted. The extractor came separately. It was just a piece of bent steel you could use to pry out sticky shells. But what would you expect for $5.00 (which included the cost of shipping). That’s roughly $60 today.
In the mid-1980s, a now defunct company called Advantage Arms produced what they called the Model 422. This is not the Advantage Arms that’s making .22 conversion kits for Glocks and 1911s. The old Advantage Arms is long gone.
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Advantage Arms’ 422. (Photo credit: GunsAmerica)​

Their pattern was a direct knock off of the Brownie, though Advantage Arms dressed it up a bit. The 422 had stylish grips. The old Brownies were very angular. Their grips were simple parallelograms of walnut with some grooves for texture. The 422 extended the grip up the side of the frame, giving a more dramatic look to the pistol.
The most noticeable difference, though, was the addition of a sight rib and larger sights. Why does a gun like this even have sights? I guess if you are finishing off trapped animals, you may want a bit of distance between you and your target. As a defensive pistol, though, the Brownie and the 422 weren’t meant to be aimed in the traditional sense. They were excellent contact guns.
Look at some of the modern concealed carry pistols. If you are pushing against your intended target, hard, you may inadvertently back the slide up the barrel . If the gun isn’t in battery, it won’t fire. Revolvers don’t have this problem, and neither do guns like the Brownie. Even though it is just a .22, it still has some actual potential as a defensive weapon.
But we’re not done with the evolution of Mossberg’s design.​

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The Cobray Pocket Pal with its .380 cylinder. ​

THE COBRAY POCKET PAL

Here’s one that I’m surprised ever made it into production. The Pocket Pal. Though Cobray borrowed heavily from the Brownie, they made some serious changes. The gun still has the compact size and aggressive shape. It still breaks open like an old-school shotgun. But it is, at its heart, a revolver.
You’d never guess. But the cylinder is on the inside. And it came with two cylinders. The top barrel fired from a three shot .380 cylinder. The bottom barrel fired from a five shot .22 LR cylinder. ​

 

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And I will name you Punkie.
Steampunkish single shot.