FR Gun Club - Friday Gun Porn- Ugly Guns

August 15, 2008 | Shooter 2.5

[Shooter 2.5]

Since we posted some great looking firearms, I thought it would be fun to post some of the ugliest guns in history. That's my opinion, of course. Post some of the ones you think just didn't make the grade in the looks department.

[Shooter 2.5]

I would love to have a replica of that one.

[Shooter 2.5]

There’s just something about that grip I just don’t like. I know they are very comfortable but I’ll pass.

[Shooter 2.5]

That top thing. That’s a gun? I thought it was a boat anchor.

[Shooter 2.5]

Naw. That’s old world elegance. Beside, any gun in an Angelina Joli movie {Wanted} has to be cool.

[trisham]

Yikes. That first one looks like a potential injury for the shooter.

[Shooter 2.5]

Maybe a “Hello Kitty” sticker might help.

[Shooter 2.5]

And the winner [so far] is........

[Shooter 2.5]

Lengthen the barrel and lose the plastic grips and you might have something.

I have a Titan .25 auto but at least it looks like a .25 auto.

You have my sympathies.

[VOA]

And the winner [so far] is........

Toss-up between post 24 and the Mateba.
(of course, that's just a personal opinion!)

Of course, I could see some utility for the Mateba as a diversionary device.
Produced while fending off thugs might leave them saying
"Hey, what the h-ll is that thing!?"

[marktwain]

That is a beautiful revolver. I wonder how well it works.

I guess high capacity guns are not that new.

[MHGinTN]

The Bergmann 1896 2 was used in a John Wayne movie wasn’t it, the one where Wayne gets his sons to help him go after a kidnapper of his youngest son (played by Richard Boone)?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

George Bemis . . . wore in his belt an old original
“Allen” revolver, such as irreverent people called
a “pepper-box.”
Simply drawing the trigger back, cocked and fired
the pistol.
As the trigger came back, the hammer would begin to
rise and the barrel to turn over, and presently down
would drop the hammer, and away would speed the ball.
To aim along the turning barrel and hit the thing aimed
at was a feat which was probably never done with an
“Allen” in the world.
But George's was a reliable weapon, nevertheless,
because, as one of the stage-drivers afterward said,
“If she didn't get what she went after, she would
fetch something else.”
And so she did.
She went after a deuce of spades nailed against a
tree, once, and fetched a mule standing about thirty
yards to the left of it.
Bemis did not want the mule; but the owner came out
with a double-barreled shotgun and persuaded him to
buy it, anyhow.
It was a cheerful weapon—the “Allen.”
Sometimes all its six barrels would go off at once,
and then there was no safe place in all the region
round about, but behind it.

- Roughing It Mark Twain

[MHGinTN]

The ONLY good thing about that French piece of garbage is that it cause America to embrace the BAR.

[300winmag]

There's Edsel-ugly, and then just plain fugly. This is one of my nominees for fugly:

Edsel-ugly, and not too well liked by the troops:

[Soliton]

I saw the commancheros. I think that was a broomhandle mauser

[300winmag]

Ugly, and handles the way it looks. The strange thing is that it was designed by the same team that made the odd-looking, but very sweet-shooting, P90/PS90.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.horstheld.com/0-makers-C.htm

E. H. COLLIER, Nov. 24, 1818 patented flintlock-revolver,
5-shot, gas-sealed, hand-revolved.
According to Sutherland's book Sam Colt bought one in
London, and he developed out of this model the single
action system = by cocking the hammer the cylinder turns.

The revolver I bought Sep. 16, 1979, is part of my
collection and not for sale.

[Billthedrill]

I want one of those “mutiny” guns. Break it out at the range and watch the guys in the lanes next to you run for cover...

[19th LA Inf]

I hope someone can come up with a picture of the M-79 grenade launcher (Viet Nam era, 40 mm bore I think). I always thought this would be the thing to discourage burglars. There was a picture once in Life magazine of a GI's girl friend toting one.

We made hundreds of them at Varo, Inc where I worked. Had a "firing range" out back which consisted of a length of 16" pipe with a 1" aluminum plate set at about 45 degrees for a berm.

[kAcknor]

Is it too obvious to mention Hi-Point?

"Hey man..., your gun sure is ugly!"

"Yea, she's ugly, but she sure can COOK!" ;)

I happen to own one of those carbines in 9mm. I do call it my "Ugly Stick" but it shoots. Everytime. Anytime. Accurate enough to plink steel plates @ 100 yards. For the $165 or so I paid OTD I gladly put up with the ugly!