The Cameleon was a concept revolver designed by Czechoslovakian ice rink technician Karel Michalek. Michalek had wanted to make his own handgun, but was limited by government restrictions. In 1989, Michalek decided to construct a concept gun out of wood and epoxy resin.

        • DeceptichumEnglish
          21·
          9 months ago

          Look it’s possible this guy was a massive nazi, but I’m going to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re not nazis.

          To me it seems far more likely it’s related to .44 magnum with it being a magnum and all than the SS.

          People write digits in all sots of different ways:

          source

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
            168·
            9 months ago

            I mean its a cool design. It looks like something you would get late game in Duke Nukem 3D where it only holds 6 shots, but 6 is all you need.

            But the etching of those 44’s sure seems like someone is trying to write SS while having people defend it sayin nah its 44.

            Edit: Bruh I don’t see any SS marks on that table of numbers you provided. The marks on that gun are very very identical. More symmetrical than any other lettering on the barrel. Almost like they used a stamp or something for just those to marks in particular.

            • DeceptichumEnglish
              121·
              9 months ago

              It’s just similar enough to the way that I write 4 (which looks more like a y) that I don’t really jump to that connection, but I can see how people who write the triangley fours might be sussed out by it.

              Also D3D was a fucking great!

              Edit: The 4th … 4? Just draw that a bit straighter and it’s the same thing.

              • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
                22·
                9 months ago

                Edit: The 4th … 4? Just draw that a bit straighter and it’s the same thing.

                Just draw that a bit straighter and bring in the angles and make it a bit more acute rotate about 45 degrees…

                wait a second …

            • MooseLad@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              9 months ago

              Here’s a quote from the reddit thread about it

              I worked with a guy who wrote 44 like that. Romanian fella. We did a job where we had to write 44 on the ground with paint, in public, quite often. I never told him, I just hope it made it onto some hysterical local Facebook group at some point.

              So yeah, some people write fours like that. No need to create some weird Nazi conspiracy theory around this guy

            • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              If you look at all the other lettering it becomes more believable that they just have an odd writing style

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      910·
      9 months ago

      Definitely doesn’t look like an accident. Maybe it was a good thing they didn’t allow him to have guns.