Captain (later Colonel) William Allen Phillips invented a handgun that went up against John Brownings' 1911 design in trials to adopt a new official Army pistol. Close, but no cigar (actually, I don't think it was very close, either).
Captain (later Colonel) William Allen Phillips invented a handgun that went up against John Brownings' 1911 design in trials to adopt a new official Army pistol. Close, but no cigar (actually, I don't think it was very close, either).
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Having an experimental pistol injure the shooter by falling apart after a few rounds would be the mark of failure, yes.
I'm a gas gun guy, but in pistols, no.
Yeah Jeff, "You'll shoot your eye kid" isn't really a selling point.
Except for BB guns of course.
"on the thirteenth round, the bolt return pin screw was shot to the rear and hit the shooter over the eye. The 'locking pin unlock' broke in two, and a piece also broke off the locking block. No further rounds were fired."
Lol
The thing's pretty ugly, too. Looks like it was made of some fragments of rain gutter and a few broken kitchen utensils.
Paco, did you just get mentioned in Open Blogger's new Gun Thread post at AoSHQ?
No, that's somebody else. Accept no substitutes!
Is that all BB guns, or just the Red Ryder?
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