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15. "RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery"
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   LAST EDITED ON Apr-25-18 AT 08:24 PM (EDT)
 
>BUT, on the THIRD hand, and I'm starting to run out of hands here, the
>gun doesn't have much in the way of markings. Now, that would
>ordinarily sort of indicate "not actually a rifle", there aren't any
>royal crown, no V.R., no "Enfield". But, there's also none of the MAD
>amount of wild-ass stampings and engravings that Khyber Pass-made guns
>tend to be covered in. This, along with the fact that it's in the
>actual army museum would, to me, tend to indicate that it is what it
>purports to be.

Well, you know, the Khyber Pass gunmaking tradition does have its roots in the making of actual guns for the resistance of imperial interlopers; selling weird shit to the other imperial interlopers just grew out of that. So it's entirely possible that some such things are legit and others are marketplace hax.

Conversely, the lack of markings may not mean much. It's a Martini action, but that doesn't necessarily mean the "donor" was an actual British-arsenal-made government-issue Martini-Henry rifle. Craft-made rifles based on the Martini action abounded (and presumably still do abound) in that part of the world; or, if not entirely homemade, it could be based on a Turkish Martini, or a Nepalese Gahendra (which are not known for the consistency of their OEM markings), or who the heck knows. The arms trade to world crisis areas is a truly amazing thing. Stuff gets everywhere. I wouldn't be entirely surprised to learn that at least one guy in Syria somewhere had a Stoner 63, and no idea where the hell it came from or how it got there.

Also, a tangential musing: the thing Gunnr Brynjelfr uses to take out the power-armor Psi Corps Enforcers in Hunter Rose is a future-generation Thompson/Center Contender, fitted with a barrel chambered for some absurd big-game cartridge. If I had known what I know now about weird firearms when I wrote that scene, it would probably have been a pistol cutdown based on either a Martini or a Remington Rolling Block, for the retro oddity value. (Or a Lancaster howdah pistol. Gunnr could totally make one of those things into an anti-tank weapon. :)

It occurs to me as I type the above that these things really have a fairly long history in UF; Gryphon's sidearm of choice back in the Golden Age was a Dark Forces-style Bryar blaster carbine cut down into a sort of obrez too, though I didn't know the term at the time.

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   RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery MoonEyes Apr-23-18 1
      RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-23-18 3
          RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery SpottedKitty Apr-24-18 5
              RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-24-18 6
                  RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery SpottedKitty Apr-24-18 8
                      RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-24-18 9
                  RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery MoonEyes Apr-24-18 10
                      RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-24-18 11
                          RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery MoonEyes Apr-25-18 12
                              RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Peter Eng Apr-25-18 13
                             RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-25-18 15
                                  RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Peter Eng Apr-25-18 16
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                                          RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery MoonEyes Apr-28-18 21
                                              RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-28-18 22
                                  RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery MoonEyes Apr-26-18 18
                                  RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery The Traitor Apr-28-18 23
                  RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-25-18 14
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   RE: GotW 54: The Franco-Spanish Revolver Mystery Gryphonadmin Apr-23-18 4
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