• Hedup@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Also fun fact - you can make a gun ineffective and safe just by welding shut its barel.

    • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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      7 months ago

      Ineffective, definitely.

      Safe for the target, also maybe. Just depends on whether the exploding action and barrel throw shrapnel down range, or if you had a shitty weld. Guy holding it won’t have a good day, but could survive. Something something Kentucky ballistics.

      Idk man, this plan is sounding pretty credible.

      Wait, wrong community…

      • Laura@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        yeah a pretty credible way to defend yourself against your target

      • philpo@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        Read somewhere in an book that sometimes soldiers/aides tried to hurt/kill their officers my minimally reducing their barrel width mechanically when cleaning their pistols for them. Hard to detect and can fuck someone up good.

        But while I can see how that would work in theory I don’t see how this could be done without someone noticing it and with the tools at their disposal.

    • the_joeba@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      You can just plug it with your finger, unless you’re going to tell me that cartoons are lying.