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Early 17th Century Combination warhammer and warpick/six shot gun.  

Has six barrels concealed on it for six shots.  The head contains five barrels, their muzzles concealed by a hinged cover forming the edge of the hammer. The topmost barrel is ignited by a matchlock fitted on one side of the head, its mechanism concealed by a brass plate cut out and engraved in the form of a lion. The second barrel has a wheellock ignition system, the mechanism of which occupies most of the outer surface of the opposite side of the axe-head. There is a tubular extension to the pan of the wheellock intended to hold a length of match which would be ignited by the flash of the priming pan and then withdrawn to ignite the three remaining barrels. A sixth barrel, also hand-ignited, is concealed within the haft.

Part of the Royal Armouries Collection in the United Kingdom

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Knifemaker: Here I made this trench knife
Russian: Why is not also...
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Russian improvised trench knife that doubles as a single shot .22 gun.

whiskey-weather

Knifemaker: Here I made this trench knife
Russian: Why is not also gun

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Hard to tell from the photo, but I’m guessing the muzzle is also the pommel, meaning that if the knife is pointing at an opponent, the gun is pointing (approximately) at its owner. Lovely.

Shoot first, then if that doesn’t work and a pipsqueak .22 probably won’t, resort to the knife. Otherwise there might be a surprise in store for someone. I’m thinking of these examples of table-cutlery with built-in flintlocks, presumably used by the more aggressive restaurant critic, but which also have the guns pointed the wrong way…

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Spikes on knuckle-guards aren’t that unusual - a well-known example is the “Night Stalker” prop from the Sylvester Stallone thriller “Cobra”…

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…but genuine WW1 trench knives had them as well…

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…sometimes mounted on an actual knuckleduster…

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The OP knife with its built-in zip-gun is described as “improvised”, but there have also been “official” gunblades - the Elgin pistol with knife built on…

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…the Apache with a little bit of everything…

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…and various modern examples like the NRS - recoil is supposedly very low but still, does this look safe to you?…

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…the G.R.A.D….

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…and the QSB-91

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… both of which actually have all the dangerous bits pointing away from the weapon’s owner. Quite an improvement…

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