The Very Bad Gun Ideas Thread

[PercyShelley]

Post your own horrifically stupid concoctions. Why? To show that you have a sense of humor, that you understand firearms operation principles, and that throwing a bunch of concepts together because they sound cool does not constitute sound engineering.


1) Miniaturized recoilless rifle in pistol format to provide anti-vehicle firepower in a smaller weapon.

2) Muzzle loader with fixed bayonet, to reduce the number of parts and increase the speed with which the bayonet may be brought to bear.

3) Bullpup rifle with folding stock, to make the ultimate compact weapon.

4) Vertical foregrips on blackpowder percussion revolvers to provide tactical flexibility to the entry teams of the 1800's.

5) Bullpup matchlocks, to provide compact firepower to conquistadors doing room clearing in Tenochtitlan.

6) The Chauchaut.

 

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The 45GAP.

 

[Inverness11]

Tactical flintlock with a holo sight, vertical foregrip, paper cartridge side saddle, 27 point tactical drop sling, kydex possibles bag, powder, horn, and accountrements, collapsible stock, barrel mounted lantern for tactical night operations, pistol grip, and picatinny rails out the ass.

 

[Inverness11]

Also, for some reason a friend of mine always wanted to put a scope on a matchlock.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

The Japanese Type 94 pistol.

 

[Chipperman]

The M1A3 Abrams with a new 120mm muzzle-loading barrel.

 

[jerkface11]

The Savage accutrigger.

 

[jlbraun]

From Tromix. Apparently, this thing works.

 

[jerkface11]

That thing would only be a bad idea if you had to pay for the ammo. Unless it's semi auto.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

.17-06 Ackley Improved

Actually that might be a lot of fun, but you'd probably burn the barrel out after about three shots.

 

[Onmilo]

The .17 HMR and .17 Mach ll

 

[Sunray]

"...Miniaturized recoilless rifle in pistol format..." Been done. The Gyro-jet pistol used tiny rockets for ammo. Considered to be ahead of its time by some.
"...horrifically stupid concoctions..." A pistol gripped only shotgun. The most useless thing on Earth.
"...Muzzle loader with fixed bayonet..." Like a blunderbuss with a spring loaded bayonet?

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

The .17 HMR and .17 Mach ll

I know of a couple hundred prairie dogs and rock squirrels who would agree with you...

If they could.

 

[pdowg881]

What would happen if you could create a gun with a .50bmg case that fired a .22lr bullet?

 

[Nimick]

What would happen if you could create a gun with a .50bmg case that fired a .22 bullet?

22 by what?

alot of deformed lead methinks.

 

[Braith-Wafer]

A TactiCool Flintlock/Wheel Lock/Blunderbuss with a muzzelite stock, sight rails etc

 

[Clipper]

An AR with rails on the buttstock (seeing as how they've put them everywhere else)...How about a 12ga 3 1/2" revolver? With a 2" barrel for CC??

 

[mnrivrat]

What would happen if you could create a gun with a .50bmg case that fired a .22lr bullet?

I think they call that a bomb !

 

[Cromlech]

Lol, I think that the bullet would fly off into the upper atmosphere, and burn up.

 

[tkendrick]

How about one that actually gets asked for frequently? (Ask any experienced gunsmith)
An M1 carbine converted to ... (insert the belted magnum cartridge of your choice here).

 

[Mr White]

.50BMG derringer

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

glock 19 with a 6 inch bayonet

 

[Harry Paget Flashman]

Any modification to an SKS except possibly removing the bayonet.

A Crimson Trace on an 1895 Nagant shooting .32 S&W short.

A thumb-hole drilled into an 8mm Hakim stock.

Any firearm that has been Dremeled too enthusiastically or has had the receiver, trigger or sear modified using JB Weld in any way.

 

[Alphazulu6]

Using incorrect loads in your .38 (or any gun) :banghead:

(found this one in google images to enhance the thought)

 

[BBQJOE]

I always liked Matt Helms time delayed rear shooting pistol.