LAST EDITED ON Jan-27-14 AT 09:47 AM (EST)
 
>Not all revolvers are equal. There was the Webley-Fosbury "automatic"
>revolver, which some WW1 officers preferred as their personal weapon.
>(Not many; the mechanism was horribly easy to jam with dust or mud.)

Ah, the mighty Webley-Fosbery: a solution in search of a problem, in the grand British tradition. Probably most famous as the murder weapon in The Maltese Falcon; also Inaho's sidearm in Master of Mosquiton. Mimi Shinguuji carries one in UF, because, let's face it, she is from a long line of people who didn't need to concern themselves with the practicalities. :)

Anyway, that's why I drew a distinction between automatic and "automated" revolvers. The former is an attempt at devising a revolver that prepares itself for the next firing; the latter is more akin to a car with power steering. The servos in That Gun are just there to make operating it easier and quicker. (Note that, as far as I am aware, automated revolvers are entirely fictional.)

>So, this was the conversion technique for the gun used in that CSI-NA
>episode where one of them was shot? Interesting.

Indeed, that's another niche use for BlasCaps: muddying the waters forensically. Didn't work in this case, because that's not Yelena Belova's dharma, but assassins do make the gesture now and again.

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