>>Forgot to note: Welrod's character illustration shows her with a pair
>>of them, and she's holding the one in her left hand like a tonfa. I
>>don't think that would actually work, like, at all?
>
>For purposes of actually shooting something that one wants to shoot,
>it almost certainly wouldn't work. It might be a substyle of the
>Ignatine "I'm out of bullets, now to pummel my enemies with my gun"
>skillset, though.

Well, I say I don't think it would work in this specific instance because the Welrod is really quite fragile. It doesn't even have a grip frame. The "grip" is just a Colt 1903 Pocket Hammerless pistol magazine with a rubber (or maybe bakelite?) collar/pad thing slipped on to make it a little more comfortable. The only things holding it on the gun are the magazine well and catch, and I can't imagine they would stand up to the forces inflicted by being used as the handle of a tonfa-style melee weapon.

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