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Ornate flintlock gun with heart-shaped muzzle, Germany, ~1765 AD (lemmy.world)

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[–] bestagon@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

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