That thing looks like it's got almost a Brazilian barrels
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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Shotsgun at that point, I think it's earned the plural.
That's gotta be heavy as fuck.
How do you fire something like that without getting your shoulder torn off?
I think it's basically a "revolver shotgun" (shotgun revolver?), so you'd only fire one barrel at a time.
Makes sense. However, why not just use a regular pump action then?
Because then you wouldn't have a six barreled shotgun.
I get it, good point :D
Probably because they couldn't get one, not a lot of gun stores in the favelas.
I see, also constructing one of those yourself seems easier. Much less precise engineering / mechanics required.
Might as well spray paint hydro dip that piece of shit. It looks like they made it in a car shop to begin with and there's not really much in the way of moving parts to fuck up. I bet operating it takes longer than reloading a double barrel.
That's something you'd see in a zombie apocalypse game
If one doesn't know how to count, shouldn't be allowed a firearm.
Is that center opening a barrel though? It looks like it's partially blocked
I don't think the center is a barrel. The more I look at it the more I think you're supposed to manually revolve the barrels. It seems like the top one might be designed to get hit by the external striker mechanism. But maybe there's some system inside the gun we can't see.
The mechanism likely also locks the barrel in place somehow, so you revolve with one hand and cock it with another. Compare it to this revolving zip gun that doesn't even bother with a trigger.
https://homemadeguns.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/revolverzipgun_b01.jpg
That's what I'm thinking too.
Do we have a c/idiotswithguns?