Who is so safe as we?

An accident waiting to happen

Safety - Rupert Brooke

Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest
He who has found our hid security,
Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest,
And heard our word, ‘Who is so safe as we?’
We have found safety with all things undying,
The winds, and morning, tears of men and mirth,
The deep night, and birds singing, and clouds flying,
And sleep, and freedom, and the autumnal earth.
We have built a house that is not for Time’s throwing.
We have gained a peace unshaken by pain for ever.
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
Secretly armed against all death’s endeavour;
Safe though all safety’s lost; safe where men fall;
And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

 

Test firing a homemade rifle

In this video the gunsmith and YouTuber AK Custom test fires his latest project. It doesn't go well for him, failing when a full charge is fired. This post, highlighting a failure, isn't really fair to him. At his channel you can see a lot of the successful guns he's built.

 

Overkill

Punt Gun

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados

in order to blow out a match. ― Shaun Hick

   

When you need a really big gun

A tour of one of the battleship Iowa's 16 inch guns from the powder room deep in the bowels of the ship to the gun in the turret.

Revolver & Camera

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 While modern gun cameras are not unusual, this 1943 version mounted on a Colt 38 is an oddity. This photograph, with an inset of six photos taken by the gun camera, was taken in New York, but nothing else is known about the gun. The picture was posted to Flikr by the National Archives of the Netherlands who hope they can get information about it.
 

The more the merrier

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 Andrea Smart, one of our regular readers, sent me a link to the xGunsafes post Six Ridiculous Guns from the Past. What caught my attention were the multiple barrel guns. It strikes me if one barrel is good and two better, then you can't go wrong with a bunch of barrels.

The top picture is a 4 barreled flintlock duckfoot pistol. Since it was deadly in a confined space it was popular with sea captains and prison guards in the 18th century. Beneath it is a cold war era Colt Defender Mk I shotgun. Its eight barrels, coupled with its accuracy, made it a deadly weapon close in.

Below is a one of a kind 3 barreled revolver (photos from Horst Held). It could fire all 3 barrels at once, or it could be set to fire a single barrel at a time. I wonder what the holster for it looked like?