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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Isn't this called a ~~deck gun~~ volley gun? They're for dealing with mutinees, the concept was that four people could die at random and nobody wanted to be that guy so they should stand down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can find no googley/bingy resemblance to that. But the idea of it, like this giant steering wheel attached to my crotch, is driving me nuts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aaaha! Sorry for the bad information! It is called a volley gun!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

duck footed volley gun

A few hand-held volley guns were also developed during the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the most distinctive was the "duck's foot" volley gun, a pistol with multiple barrels arranged in a splayed pattern, so that the firer could spray a sizable area with a single shot.[7] The principle behind this type of pistol is one of confrontation by one person against a group; hence, it was popular among bank guards, prison wardens and sea captains in the early 19th century.

Well done, Captain my Captain!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

it was popular among bank guards, prison wardens and sea captains in the early 19th century.

So just don't worry about the bank customers, or what?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's certainly looks very piratey.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I remember an episode of Pawn Stars featuring these exact weapons and it is as you say, they’re for crowd control on a ship.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Hey, can we get a shotgun?
  • We have shotgun at home.
  • Shotgun at home:
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Say it ain't so!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since guns weren't rifled yet, this gun increased your chances of hitting one guy to almost eighty percent!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or gangster style one dude in the crotch, stomach, chest, and head

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Or gangster style four dudes in a double bunk bed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's actually how that whole thing got started.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Weezer's response: "We were informed that this particular instrument was a hash pipe..."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just move forward or backwards until they're spaced the right distance apart!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"Time to say goodbye!"

Hold on...

Wait a sec...

...ok there

"Time to say goodbye!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nah, it was more an extremely early version of spray'n pray.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically just a shitty shotgun. Shitgun, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh, or Contra's "spread gun"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Where is the thumb?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

for slaping or shooting? ...yes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Russian roulette 1850 .... one iron pellet is placed in the gun ... it will shoot out of one of the barrels in front.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or one person you really hate