“The Protector” was a very discreet palm pistol developed in the late 1800s by a French inventor, produced in bulk by the Ames Sword Company, and sold by the Chicago Firearms Company. They are mechanically double-action turret revolvers with a unique grip design meant to be to be fired by squeezing. The first few were made in France by the original inventor, and later licensed to an Irish-American who sold them through first the Minneapolis Firearms Company and later the Chicago Firearms Company. Most are in an extra-short .32 caliber rimfire cartridge, but a few were also made in both .41 and .22 calibers.
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Won’t that get very hot after a shot was fired?
They had a low capacity and were chambered in a diminutive set of cartridges typically. Firearms typically heat up to after prolonged firing. You likely wouldn’t get this sort of piece hot enough to be of nuisance in typical usage.
I’d be surprised if the total temperature raised by more than 10°F exhausting their full capacity. For you Celsius fans think about it as the difference of going from 26°C to 31°C. Notably warmer but not uncomfortable.
Also this isn’t something you’d fire typically only in self defense and wouldn’t reload in a fight. So in practice you probably wouldn’t need to be concerned about that.
It says it protects loaded or not, is there some additional function or is that just some marketing thing I don’t get
I guess worst case you could use it similar to a knuckle duster
I think it’s marketing unless they mean you can beat someone with an empty one. Which is a possibility.
“When empty, this gun performs all the functions of a rock!”
I suppose you could threaten to shoot someone with it unloaded as you could with more traditional firearms, bluffing for self defense. But I would seriously struggle to even recognize this as a firearm in any kind of altercation, so I think that’s a stretch.
Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable. If it doesn’t work you can always hit him with it.