John Moses Browning entry on Wikipedia... sub atomic weasel launcher?!!

[El Tejon]

Didn't JMB demonstrate his sub-atomic weasel launcher to the government and it worked too well so he did not get a contract?

Or, was it that he was going to sell his SAWL to Remington but the president of Remington died at his desk so JMB e-mailed Belgium from his Blackberry and then hopped aboard the Concord and flew to see FN?

 

[Trebor]

I'm not a fan of Wikipedia. I pity the generation of kids who think it's a credible resource and are using it as a primary resource.

I do find it a usefull resource if I want to find out something about popular culture where it doesn't *really* matter if the answer is wrong.

I do tip my hat to those of you who try to keep the firearms related entries up to date. Since so many do use Wiki, that is a noble undertaking.

 

[sturmruger]

I enjoy Wikipedia it is more often then not extremly accurate.

 

[Dr. Dickie]

Didn't Guns and Ammo review the NEW sub-atomic weasle launcher put out by S&W and give it 5 stars?

 

[SuperNaut]

Didn't Guns and Ammo review the NEW sub-atomic weasle launcher put out by S&W and give it 5 stars?

Nah, that was Combat Handguns. They said "may be the mostest perfect concealed carry sub-atomic weasle launcher ever made, ever!"

 

[MD_Willington]

...but isn't the new SAWL an NFA item,

 

[seeker_two]

You can bet if JMB has invented a subatomic weasel launcher, it'd be the baddest one ever made and we'd still be using it today.

Truest. Response. Ever.


However, Saive did improve upon the design by adding a hi-cap magazine, nearly doubling the number of weasels one could launch without reloading...

And the battle of Stalingrad clearly demonstrates that weasels had nothing to do with the order of battle....


...it was lemmings.....


...the weasels were in the Kremlin...

 

[carebear]

Didn't Guns and Ammo review the NEW sub-atomic weasle launcher put out by S&W and give it 5 stars?

That'd be the Commemorative SAWL with the gold leaf engraved sideplate and the new, much despised anti-slutweasel lock mechanism?

 

[El Tejon]

'No honest man needs a sub-atomic weasel."

Bill Ruger

 

[hankdatank1362]

If Combat Handguns reviewed the Weasel Launcher, the headline would say "Bold New-Breed Weasel Launcher Boasts Innovations Galore!"

BTW, I carry my Weasel Launcher cocked-and-locked, the way the Good Lord and JMB intended it to be carried.

Actually, from now on, my new nickname for my 1911 will be weasel launcher.

 

[Eleven Mike]

Then this Austrian guy came along and started putting weasels in Tupperware boxes.

 

[MD_Willington]

Wait till I show you the pintle mounted 120mm recoiless SAWL on my tactical wheel barrow

 

[Eleven Mike]

MD, that's rediculos. Youll never be able to carry that thing around in a wheel barow. What you need is something lightweight, hard-hitting an accurate. A .223 weasel launcher with a ten-inch barell is what you need.

 

[MD_Willington]

lol... as long as I can get it to the mall we'll be fine


oh yeah I see your point, maybe a suppressed .22 SAWL...

 

[Grey54956]

Do I need a license to carry a SAWL? I am not sure.

 

[scout26]

CCS (Concealed Carry SAWL) is illegal in Illinois and there's a SAWL ban pending in the legislature.......


How many trauma plates would you have to tape to your back to stop a SAWL round while you partner assembles the anti-SAWL rifle ????

 

[geekWithA.45]

'No honest man needs a sub-atomic weasel."

Bill Ruger

Er, isn't that "sub-atomic weasel smaller than a canned ham"?

 

[Cousin Mike]

Ladies and Gentlemen...

John Moses Browning's Sub-atomic Weasel Launcher!

 

[Hardware]

Wait till I show you the pintle mounted 120mm recoiless SAWL on my tactical wheel barrow

Common mistake. Above 50mm and it's no longer a SAWL. It's a SAOL, a Sub Atomic Otter Launcher. Pretty sure that makes it an NFA item.

 

[carebear]

Careful with that SAOL. If you have an obstructed bore, you get an "Otter POP".

 

[Axman]

If you have an obstructed bore, you get an "Otter POP".

If it happens with an SAWL then "Pop, goes the weasel"! Especially when a monkey is firing it at a mulberry bush...

 

[carebear]

Go team!

 

[armedandsafe]

SOMEBODY on this board owes me a keyboard!

Pops

 

[veloce851]

I remember reading an article in the Mustelidae Monthy Journal circu 1902
It was titled "Progressive Retardation of Mustela nivalis in a Subatomic State"
The article was written late in his life during the height of his weasel research.
Apparently he dicovered that handling the subatomic sized weasels proved rather difficult.
The situation was exacerbated by the mental retardation they suffered during the atomization and molecular compression processes.
Ironically this is where the term "quarky" comes from. Quarky was the term he would use to describe the erratic state they would engage in when atempting to compress the atomized particles.
Murray Gell-Mann, a fan of Browning's work would later name those individual weasel particles and receive a Nobel Prize for that work.

True story I tell you T-R-U-E

 

[carebear]

Then there's the difficulty of designing a weasel that will have effective stopping power both in wave and particle form (depending how your target sees it coming).