Knife or Gun?

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

There was the SPQR-Special Purpose Quiet Revolver from the Vietnam Era, built on an S&W N frame. The cartridge was buckshot over a case with a plate to prevent the powder gasses from escaping, it was designed for the tunnel rats. Not widely issued, if at all.
I have seen pictures of sword cutlasses from the percussion cap era.
Several Army veterans from my era (1967-1971) said they were told in Basic during bayonet training, "If your bayonet sticks in your opponent, discharge a round."-?
I wonder how much vodka the designer of this had drunk.

 

[luv2safari]

I would prefer a grenade handled knife. Or a Claymore helmet.

I'm all in for a Claymore helmet!

 

[lemaymiami]

As a young kid living in France (Dad was Army, stationed in Orleans - late fifties, in those days families were usually part of an overseas posting...) I was taken to the Saturday flea market in Paris on one or two occasions. I was absolutely fascinated by the various old weapons that you could see offered for sale (along with everything else under the sun...) that included different kinds of old sword canes, as well as canes that included a rifle or shotgun single shot inside the walking stick or cane... In later years as I learned what libraries were for a bit of reading and you realized that weapons of every description were invented at one time or other in the past. Looking at them, even at an early age it was pretty obvious that most of the crazier contraptions weren't exactly very practical. I doubt that will change in the future (no matter what the movies come up with for Mr. Bond...).

By the way that Paris flea market, if it still exists... is where you went on Saturday to buy back what was stolen from you on Wednesday... at least that's what I was told - all those years ago...

 

[230RN]

Seems like a really bad idea given the first picture with the blade of the knife near the dude's eye.

I thought of that pointy thingy coming back at me in recoil, too. A sphincter-shrinker, to be sure. I had to take a sip of coffee before I got unclenched down there.

I once saw a semiauto handgun from some foreign maker with a bayonet on the muzzle in a dealer's showcase --Tom & Joe's Firearms on 43rd in Golden? They said it was just for show, but it seemed more practical than OP's photo-thingy.

 

[Miami_JBT]

Russian creative high points: Ballet, the field hospital, corrective eye surgery, air ionization, the Khalaznikov. Low points: Communism, Russian Roulette, and this knife/gun combo mishigas.

Makes Russian Roulette more fun!

 

[reddog81]

A realistic scenario in which you accidentally stab your own eyeball with your own issued gear while trying to shoot your enemy? That can only exist in Russia.

Or you shoot yourself while trying to stab someone. Or even better, you shoot yourself while trying to open an MRE.

 

[bbqncigars]

@reddog81 well it would be a quicker death than eating an MRE.