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Neat looking... But a pita to make and makes the seal between mini-ball + barrel worse, leaving you with more blow-by and less muzzle power.
I'd pretty much guarantee this is just a decoration on the tip. You can see the seam where it attaches to the regular shaped barrel. It just shoots through the slightly larger attachment like a silencer or muzzlebrake.
it shot heart shaped bullets, obv
I wonder if anyone ever tried to develop rifling with irregularly shaped bullets
Whitworth rifle is the only one with a non round rifled bore that I know of.
Rifling being the grooves inside the barrel that make the bullet spin, I'm thinking not. I can't imagine anything but a cylinder working.
I thought maybe if you had a shaped barrel and then just twisted it, you could spiral a bullet without cutting groves. Not sure if you’d ever find that easier than conventional rifling but people have tried wackier shit
You wouldn't want to kill someone with your heart pistol.
What if you shoot them in the heart?
Well then you'd obviously be to blame.
You give love a bad name.
Fill it with rat shot and blow off someone's hand
Only if the entire barrel is that shape; perhaps it's only the tip for the aesthetics? That would also make manufacturing easier.