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[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Also fun fact - you can make a gun ineffective and safe just by welding shut its barel.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ineffective, definitely.

Safe for the target, also maybe. Just depends on whether the exploding action and barrel throw shrapnel down range, or if you had a shitty weld. Guy holding it won't have a good day, but could survive. Something something Kentucky ballistics.

Idk man, this plan is sounding pretty credible.

Wait, wrong community....

[–] urfavlaura@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

yeah a pretty credible way to defend yourself against your target

[–] philpo@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Read somewhere in an book that sometimes soldiers/aides tried to hurt/kill their officers my minimally reducing their barrel width mechanically when cleaning their pistols for them. Hard to detect and can fuck someone up good.

But while I can see how that would work in theory I don't see how this could be done without someone noticing it and with the tools at their disposal.

[–] the_joeba@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

You can just plug it with your finger, unless you're going to tell me that cartoons are lying.