Comments on: Flare Guns

By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:12:38 +0000

Lieutenant Edward Wilson Very resigned the U.S. Navy in 1885.

His rank at retirement was lieutenant.
Yes he was the inventor of the Very Signal Lights.

No he was never an admiral.

By: hellinahandbasket.net » Blog Archive » Looks Like a Howdah Pistol

hellinahandbasket.net » Blog Archive » Looks Like a Howdah Pistol — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:52:58 +0000

[...] written before about how the Nazis managed to turn a flare pistol into an anti-armor weapon during WWII. I thought you might be interested to hear that they did the same thing with a double barreled [...]

By: GunPundit » Blog Archive » Flare Guns

GunPundit » Blog Archive » Flare Guns — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:59:59 +0000

[...] Rummel has a guest post up at Murdoc Online, including a Nazi anti-armor weapon developed from a flare gun that Murdoc had never heard [...]

By: Flanker

Flanker — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:57:53 +0000

Sturmpistole? Storm pistol = assault pistol……..the anti gunners are right!!!! AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! LOL!

By: Formerly known as Skeptic

Formerly known as Skeptic — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:54:18 +0000

I particularly like the use of the company name “Mace Security International” so they can conflate pepper spray with mace and make their product sound better. Note top of package which says “mace pepper gun” if read without accounting for the graphics and the graphics if anything highlight the word “mace”. Lots of psychology in advertising, I get a kick out of it!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:23:51 +0000

When I started to do my dissertation back in grad school on the British in Mesopotamia, the documents and some of the letters kept referring to a lack of “Very lights”. Being an American, this confused the hell out of me until finally I was able to track down what they meant. Since I was over there at the time, none of the glossaries explained what a Very was, since it was, I assume, common knowledge.