c/forgottenweapons · by FireTower@lemmy.world · 2y

Made by a Zamboni Driver - Chameleon (1989)

The Cameleon was a concept revolver designed by Czechoslovakian ice rink technician Karel Michalek. Michalek had wanted to make his own handgun, but was limited by government restrictions. In 1989, Michalek decided to construct a concept gun out of wood and epoxy resin.

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35 Comments

g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Is there a rear sight? Otherwise I non ironically love this wheelie

LowtierComputer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

There is. Look at the very top left of the image.

g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Oh yeah, lookie there. I thought that was part of the cylinder catch.

Bezier@suppo.fi · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I can't help but read that as Ass Magnum

TseseJuer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

*SS Magnum

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (11 replies)

Is that an SS mark? As in the white nationalist mark?

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Haha no, those are 4’s as in .44 magnum.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Look it's possible this guy was a massive nazi, but I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they're not nazis.

To me it seems far more likely it's related to .44 magnum with it being a magnum and all than the SS.

People write digits in all sots of different ways:

source

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I mean its a cool design. It looks like something you would get late game in Duke Nukem 3D where it only holds 6 shots, but 6 is all you need.

But the etching of those 44's sure seems like someone is trying to write SS while having people defend it sayin nah its 44.

Edit: Bruh I don't see any SS marks on that table of numbers you provided. The marks on that gun are very very identical. More symmetrical than any other lettering on the barrel. Almost like they used a stamp or something for just those to marks in particular.

Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's just similar enough to the way that I write 4 (which looks more like a y) that I don't really jump to that connection, but I can see how people who write the triangley fours might be sussed out by it.

Also D3D was a fucking great!

Edit: The 4th ... 4? Just draw that a bit straighter and it's the same thing.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

Edit: The 4th … 4? Just draw that a bit straighter and it’s the same thing.

Just draw that a bit straighter and bring in the angles and make it a bit more acute rotate about 45 degrees..

wait a second ...

MooseLad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Here's a quote from the reddit thread about it

I worked with a guy who wrote 44 like that. Romanian fella. We did a job where we had to write 44 on the ground with paint, in public, quite often. I never told him, I just hope it made it onto some hysterical local Facebook group at some point.

So yeah, some people write fours like that. No need to create some weird Nazi conspiracy theory around this guy

FireTower@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I think / hope he was going for an idea like this for a simplified 4.

ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You both have a point and I'm not saying that the guy had any Nazi sympathies, but come on.

fluxion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

If you look at all the other lettering it becomes more believable that they just have an odd writing style

jonne@infosec.pub · -1 pts · 2y

Definitely doesn't look like an accident. Maybe it was a good thing they didn't allow him to have guns.

Infynis@midwest.social · 9 pts · 2y

Everything about it is somehow weird and normal at the same time

verstra@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wait, the barrel is from epoxy resin?

Looks very cool

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

I think it's just a proof of concept mockup and not meant to be functional.

I don't think there's an epoxy wonder-material on earth that would withstand the chamber and barrel pressure of a .44 magnum, and even if it did you'd still have rifling in it for about 0.2 nanoseconds.

rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y (6 replies)

I mistakenly thought this was a post on music 😅 would be a great band name!

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"Zamboni Driver" sounds like a rejected name for Steely Dan lol

rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Drive zambonis, all night long 🎶

FireTower@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

https://lemmy.world/c/fakebandnames

You just gave me the idea to make a community for that since we didn't have one yet.

CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 2y

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !fakebandnames@lemmy.world

rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

Haha cool, I'll figure out how to join it, already some good submissions!

FireTower@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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e8d79@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Fuck you. Bullpups your revolver

Also lovely SS runes he put on there... 😬

g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I want a bullpup, low bore axis, auto cycling DA/SA revolver with a removable cylinder. Is that too much to ask?

Edit: with light and optic mounting points

Kaboom@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Break open like a schofield, and shoots 45lc/410 shotshells too