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queerarmorer · 1 year
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Friday Fucks or Sucks
Welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks! It's a weekly game where we all discuss if a gun fucks, or if it sucks. This week it's the Landstad Automatic Revolver, a revolver with a magazine. The magazine was also the left grip and fed the bottom chamber of a flat cylinder that rotated 180 degrees.
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The revolver was chambered in 7.65 Nagant, a now defunct round and these images come from the first model built by Halvard Landstadin 1900. It went into military trials at 1901 with terrible outcomes it failed basically every test it was presented with outside of the ones testing the ballistics of the cartridge they already knew to be good.
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The cylinder was flat, and is shown here open and rotating. The bottom chamber would be fed a new round by the cycling action.
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The rear of the revolver had a slide that would pull back and cycle the weapon, ejecting the current round and pushing the next round from the magazine into the cylinder. It was wildly complicated and tended to lock up when shot with any speed..
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The original patent drawing from 1899. With a six shot magazine the entire system could possibly be "max loaded" with eight rounds but, assuming the prototype functions as the original drawings describe, doing so would have been wildly dangerous with a floating firing pin and no safety. Using it as intended, however, the safest max loading would be seven rounds - six rounds and an additional seventh round in the double action/bottom chamber.
Let me know whether you think this fucks or sucks! Is it a beautiful space revolver? Is it an abandoned failed prototype with no real use case? Is it cool? Is it weird? Let me know!
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queerarmorer · 1 year
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Welcome to Friday Fucks or Sucks! It’s a simple game with simple rules: a gun Fucks, or It sucks. Explain.
Today’s Friday Fucks or Sucks is the Duke Mexico’s 1565 axe gun. Wheel lock firearms take forever to reload. The lock is a heavy metal spring that needs to be wound between shots and once that is wound it is still a muzzleloading rifle with all the slow pace that usually entailed. Many early designs combined the gun with a melee weapon of some kind allowing for you to be armed after shooting your shot, sort of.
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queerarmorer · 1 year
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Getting Pepper Sprayed for Science.
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queerarmorer · 1 year
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Just got pepper sprayed for a video. Getting sprayed again tomorrow. The life of a content creator …
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queerarmorer · 2 years
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Gotta love the woods.
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queerarmorer · 2 years
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Touching grass last weekend.
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queerarmorer · 2 years
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How to get dangerous quickly, episode one: quickly and safely.
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queerarmorer · 2 years
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We're streaming a new D&D campaign tonight! 5PM EST, tune in either to watch (or just to listen if you'll be working, it's very much something that will be audio-only friendly!) as we play through a campign I've been writing for a while. It's part campaign, part heist movie, part comedy, but mostly it's a bunch of friends roleplaying as hilarious strangers.
Lies! Intrigue! Suspense! Magic! Bob! Kings! Magic! Fraud! Frogs!
Check it out here.
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queerarmorer · 2 years
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I guess we're on here now.
I'm migrating from Twitter (here). I also have a Youtube channel (here) where I make videos around helping queer folk arm themselves and generally standing up for people's defensive rights.
Now that the bird's on fire I figured I should try this place again. I used to be on here a long time ago, it's good to be back.
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queerarmorer · 2 years
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An eternal vibe.
Rest in power.
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Lucía Sánchez Saornil (deceased)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: 13 December 1895  
RIP: 2 June 1970
Ethnicity: White - Spanish
Occupation: Poet, anarchist, feminist, activist
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