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Brutal inventions12/28/2022 ![]() ![]() They’re cheap and easy to make and useful for people who live in mountainous or jungle terrain when they need food, they need to hunt. Brutal inventions zip#This sort of marble/ball bearing-firing zip guns use gas pressure from ignited denatured alcohol. Yay! Yeah, these guns are actually pretty brutal. Sounds fun doesn’t it? A little pop gun that fires those cool, age-old kids playthings marbles. ![]() 9 Glass Shivĭid you ever get a potato gun as a kid? Maybe you had a BB gun if you had cool/negligent parents? Well, in parts of Southeast Asia, you can just bodge up a marble gun yourself. ![]() This design suggests two very worrying facts about the EOKA pistol:ġ) Given that it has no true barrel, accuracy at any range short of point blank would be zero (maybe that was the point).Ģ) The shoddy design was just as likely to result in the user getting their hand blown off. A hole in the casing provides a means to manually light the powder in order to fire a shot, suggesting that this was a single use weapon (also, an artillery shell is unlikely to survive a shot being fired through it). This ‘pistol’, confiscated during the conflict and now housed in the Royal Armouries in London, uses a spent 20mm artillery shell as a barrel and a crudely carved piece of wood as a handle. As with many insurgency and guerrilla forces, the EOKA had to make do with what they could beg, borrow and steal in terms of weaponry. The EOKA (which stands for Ethniki Oranosis Kyprion Agoniston-National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) was a Greek Cypriot nationalist paramilitary group that fought against British forces that occupied the island in the 1950s. ![]()
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