{"id":192494,"date":"2024-02-24T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=181324"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:32:44","slug":"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obscure and Awesome &#8211; 9 Weird Guns Throughout History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time:  <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">8<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love weird guns. I get they aren\u2019t always useful or great for much more than looking and working weirdly. Still, there is something to be said about their creativity and design that makes them different than any other weapon. Weird guns are not often successful, but sometimes they make it. You know the FN Browning 1900 was probably weird when it premiered with a slide, but now every automatic handgun has a slide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes weird becomes standard, but not always. With that in mind, let\u2019s look at a few weird guns that might not have inspired an arms revolution but were plenty weird.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-mossberg-brownie-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Mossberg Brownie\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-high-standard-model-10-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">High Standard Model 10\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-gyrojet-pistol-and-rifles\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">The Gyrojet Pistol and Rifles<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-calico-series-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Calico Series\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-knight-s-armament-revolver-rifle\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Knight\u2019s Armament Revolver Rifle<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-cobray-pocket-pal-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Cobray Pocket Pal\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-arsenal-firearms-af2011a1\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Arsenal Firearms AF2011A1<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-dardick-revolvers-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Dardick Revolvers\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-stoehr-machine-pistol-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Stoehr Machine Pistol\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-stay-weird-nbsp\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" data-level=\"2\">Stay Weird\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mossberg-brownie-nbsp\">Mossberg Brownie&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Long before Mossberg built their first shotgun Oscar Mossberg and his sons were building the Brownie. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/961014034\/Mossberg-Brownie-22-Pistol.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\">Brownie<\/a> was Mossberg\u2019s first gun, and it was an interesting design for the era, and of all the weird guns on this list, it was the most successful. The Brownie was a four-barreled, four-shot .22LR pistol with a rotating firing pin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/3810-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181255\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was advertised to trappers as a means to take game trapped in snares out. The Mossberg Brownie cost a mere five bucks and offered firepower similar to that of pocket pistols at the time, but it was a fraction of the price. It\u2019s a weird first gun, but they sold fairly well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-high-standard-model-10-nbsp\">High Standard Model 10&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>High Standard made some pretty standard shotguns for the era. Your typical pump guns, and then, out of nowhere, they developed the High Standard Model 10. This is a bullpup, semi-auto shotgun that uses a gas-operated system. Keep in mind it was designed in the 1950s and is still one of the weird guns on this list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/776-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181326\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Model 10 was only 26 inches long overall but did weigh nearly ten pounds. The guns had an integrated flashlight built into the design. The Model 10 also features a lot of polymer in its construction, which was fairly innovative for its era. The Model 10 had numerous shortcomings and reliability issues, leading to a brief service life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-gyrojet-pistol-and-rifles\">The Gyrojet Pistol and Rifles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Gun&#8217; is an open term, and weird guns take the term and open it up even wider. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/p25s-5afoliage-penetrating-gyrojet-signal-kit-failed-buck-rogers-rocket-gun-finds-viable-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\">Gyrojet <\/a>series were not traditional guns. They used projectiles that fired small rockets instead of standard inert bullets. These microjets had a very slow velocity leaving the barrel but amped up to about 1,250 feet per second after about 10 yards of travel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/GyrojetPistol-1024x635.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181253\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were both pistol and rifle Gyrojet firearms, but they were a failure. The ammo was finicky and unreliable, they were not very useful at close range, and the accuracy was abysmal. A few even went to Vietnam for testing, where they failed exceedingly fast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-calico-series-nbsp\">Calico Series&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Calico started life as a submachine gun but eventually evolved into both a rifle and a handgun. They are all the same basic design but vary in size and select fire capability. These weird guns use a top-mounted magazine that is helical. Magazine capacities varied between 50 and 100 rounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Liberty-III-T-Black-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181329\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The gun did use a roller-delayed blowback system, but that was the most normal feature. The odd magazine is a standout, and it\u2019s even odder because that is where your sights sit. The rear sight is part of the magazine, so I\u2019m sure accuracy was an issue. Reliability certainly was, and these guns have been regulated to novelties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-knight-s-armament-revolver-rifle\">Knight\u2019s Armament Revolver Rifle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Those post-Cold War, pre-GWOT days were some weird ones. They gave us some weird designs that special operations theorized they needed. One such design was the Knight\u2019s Armament Revolver Rifle. Revolver rifles are already weird, but this particular model is also suppressed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/KnightRevolverRifle-1024x428.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181251\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The concept was to create a 100-meter sniper rifle that would be silent, compact, and rapid firing. They also didn\u2019t want it to eject the cases. Thus a Ruger Super Redhawk was turned into the Revolver Rifle. It was fitted with a ten-inch barrel, stock, and Leupold 1.5 to 5X scope. The rifle used specially designed ammunition that allowed for suppressed operation in a revolver.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cobray-pocket-pal-nbsp\">Cobray Pocket Pal&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cobray might be the king of weird guns with competitors like the Terminator shotgun, the Pepperbox, and of course, the Pocket Pal. The Pocket Pal was a pocket revolver that certainly didn\u2019t look like a revolver. The cylinder was encased inside the gun, and it was more or less an adoption of the Mossberg Brownie design, but with a cylinder and only two barrels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/CobrayPocketPal-2-1024x736.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181288\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two barrels, but only one was used at a time. One barrel was designed for .380 ACP and the other for .22LR. Users got two cylinders, one for .380. You dropped whichever cylinder for whichever caliber you wanted to shoot in the gun. You got three rounds of .380 and five rounds of .22LR. It\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/12-gauge-no-ffl-pistol-full-review-diablo-american-gun-craft\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\">oddity<\/a>, but I won\u2019t lie and say I don\u2019t want one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-arsenal-firearms-af2011a1\">Arsenal Firearms AF2011A1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s better than one 191? Obviously, two 1911s. Not just two 1911s, but two 1911s that are seemingly welded together to create one handgun that has two slides, barrels, frames, magazines, etc. It really is just two 1911s welded together, more or less. I have no idea who wanted this, but Arsenal Firearms produced it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M12012-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181245\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They didn\u2019t produce very many of them, but they produced enough to get a whole bunch of them in movies. This includes Deadpool 2, Spectre, and Resident Evil. These oddballs were very expensive and made entirely for collectors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dardick-revolvers-nbsp\">Dardick Revolvers&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dardick Revolvers don\u2019t look like revolvers. Instead, they look more like a gun from Flash Gordon. The Dardick guns were magazine-fed revolvers, at that. Oh, and they fired something known as a tround. A tround is a triangular-shaped case. The weird design of the cartridge is due to the weird design of the gun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/D1500-1024x743.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181249\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dardick cylinder wasn\u2019t like a typical cylinder. It had three chambers. At any given time, one cylinder will be grabbing a round from the magazine, while another line a tround up to fire, and the third ejects the empty tround case. The Dardick didn\u2019t just look weird. It was weird all around. But yet, the weirdest gun is yet to come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-stoehr-machine-pistol-nbsp\">Stoehr Machine Pistol&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stoehr Machine pistol appears to be a one-off prototype, but it deserves mention. The Stoehr Machine Pistol is a bullpup pistol designed to be rested on the user\u2019s arm. That\u2019s weird, but it gets weirder. The pistol has a pan magazine and fires the .22 Magnum cartridge. That\u2019s pretty weird, but it gets even more bizarre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/oj4esyhs1n621-1-1024x939.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181287\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, you\u2019ve heard of blowback actions, but what about blow forward? The Stoerh Machine Pistol used a blow-forward design for operation. The pan magazine sits to the left of the gun, and an optimistic set of sights are built into the pipe-like design. The most normal aspect of it is the M16 pistol grip. It\u2019s the king of weird guns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-stay-weird-nbsp\">Stay Weird&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of weird guns are one-offs and largely unsuccessful. As a people, we are not prone to radically adopt new technology, and we can often identify the weird that\u2019s good and the weird that\u2019s bad. Even so, I can\u2019t help but appreciate the weird guns out there, and these are some of my favorites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\" title=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the FN Browning 1900 was probably weird when it was premiered with a slide, but now every automatic handgun has a slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":199312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,234,257,3459],"tags":[102,752,3819],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-columns","9":"category-historical-guns","10":"category-travis-pike","11":"tag-feature-articles","12":"tag-historical-guns","13":"tag-weird-guns"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Weird guns rule and they are often innovative, but sometimes there is nothing genius about them and they&#039;re just strange\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Obscure and Awesome - 9 Weird Guns Throughout History\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You know the FN Browning 1900 was probably weird when it was premiered with a slide, but now every automatic handgun has a slide.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-24T20:21:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-24T20:32:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Weird-Guns.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Travis Pike\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Travis Pike\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/the-obscure-and-awesome-9-weird-guns-throughout-history\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Travis Pike\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gunsamerica.com\\\/digest\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e0da700e463f64acd40af9c7869b0f2c\"},\"headline\":\"The Obscure and Awesome &#8211; 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