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Duckfoot pistol, British, 1805-1813 AD (lemmy.world)
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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I just visited a historical battleship museum and at the small arms locker they had a list of all the dozens of pistols, rifles, light machine guns, and so forth they had on board... and also three or four short-barreled shotguns that a contemporary crewman account affectionately referred to as "mutiny guns."