Posted on 08/13/2018 5:13:37 AM PDT by w1n1
Most guns were made to be a functional piece of firearms as a duty weapon or as part of the everyday carry.
However, there are some handguns in the past that never really worked out.
Yes, it goes bang but the cosmetic and its purpose was just horrible.
Anyways, there’s probably over hundreds of firearms out there from various countries from the past that we haven’t seen yet, but here’s another of our ugly list of guns.
The Deer Gun
Another war time liberator pistol, this one may be the only 20th century handgun even more ridiculous-looking than the FP-45. This single-shot pistol was just a pound and was chambered in 9mm. The poor design looks more like something you’d attach to the end of your garden hose, doesn’t it?
Soviet S4M
The round is one of many Russia piston silenced rounds. The gas from the primer propels a piston (I doubt they contain any powder) which in turn propels a 123 grain bullet at 490 fps generating 66 lbs of muzzle energy. This is significantly less energy than a High Velocity .22 Long Rifle (130+ lbs). The piston then locks in the gas preventing muzzle noise.
The bullet itself is similar to the 7.62x39mm (AK) bullet. In theory this is supposed to fool investigators into thinking the victim was shot by a conventional rifle.
Dardick Model 1500
This cartoonish-looking handgun was the brainchild of inventor David Dardick in 1958 when he patented a new type of round called the Dardick tround. Yes, that is “tround” with a T. The 1500 was designed to fire this new round out of an open chamber revolver design.
Welrod MkII
The Welrod is one of the best-remembered pieces of real-life James Bond gear manufactured by Special Operations Executive. SOE was a clandestine department set up in 1940 in the UK to assist resistance movements in occupied Europe, and they came up with some very interesting gadgets. Read the rest of this ugly guns list here.
A Dardick. Zounds …it uses Trounds!
Just keep it in your tool box. People will think it’s a drill.
The Deer Gun looks more like a Glue Gun
Several early automatics like the first Frommers, the Warner Infallible, Dreyse 1907, Stallard Arms JS-9, the Borchhardt, the Nambu type 94, the M3 Grease Gun......Yeesh. That’s enough ugly for now.
The Dardick action would have made a great autocannon.
Handgun? Not so much.
I must be weird; I find every one of these guns beautiful.
To me, there is no such thing as an ugly gun.
Along with the Dardick, I would include the Gyrojet which fired small rocket bullets as used in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE.
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