Speaking of obscure guns Gunnr could lay her hands on - and we are talking really goddamn obscure with this one - I have found reference to something called a liangtou tongchong, which is, and I'm not making this up, a double-ended matchlock muzzleloader. No, really. It's a "long-and-thin" design developed in fifteenth-century China (which did a lot of that sort of thing) and was in use right through to the mid-sixteenth century, particularly in Dai Viet. The example I'm looking at is just over a metre long and has touch-holes on each side for ease of use. It's a gunstaff. I swear I'm not making this up.

One imagines Gunnr's working on a modern version of this for Anthy's next birthday. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

I might not contribute much, but what I do contribute is generally weird shit nobody wants. =]