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This is a community dedicated to discussion around historical arms, mechanically unique arms, and Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons content. Posts requesting an identification of a particular gun (or other arm) are welcome.

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A Traumatic Pistol - PB-4 OSA (1997) (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Traumatic pistols are a class of less-lethal guns typically they fire rubber balls.

The pistol is named the Osa or Wasp nodding to the fact that while it won’t kill you, it’s very unpleasant to be stung by one... The pistol was produced in limited numbers between 1997 and 1999 and was a break-action, four-shot non-lethal handgun. This early version featured a shorter 45mm traumatic cartridge and a less streamlined look.

The modern version of the PB-4SP carries with it an updated look as well as a much larger 18x60mm traumatic cartridge with a rubber bullet (traumatic), signal, stun, illuminating, marking, and lachrymatory (tear gas) rounds available for use without any parts changes.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/06/23/pb-4sp/

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I think this might be an even closer match. The COP .357: