Vaporizing Weaponry

Top: Digital 3D template for a Buck Rogers-style retro ray gun.
2nd: 888 Ray Gun cap pistol, Japan.
3rd: Hubley Atomic Disintegrator Ray Gun cap pistol.
4th: Dr. Grordbort’s SPUTNIK 500, a one-of-a-kind movie prop.
5th: HR Productions Atomatic Space Ray Gun squirt gun, England.

[Found here.]

A Dressed-up Phalanx CIWS

The ship may be the JS Myōkō (DDG-175), a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The Ratheon Phalanx CIWS is sometimes painted as a “Minion“.

[Found here. More info here.]

Marcescent Hot Links

Misfits & Freaks, The Courettes (2022)Dubbed “The World’s Greatest Two-Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble,” Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Fabulous Courettes, are proof that Phil Spector lives.

Trains!

5th Place.

Gompotheres.

We’re doomed.

Make it teensy.

Doppelgängers.

Skinny Legs Bar.

Crystal Magnum.

What is surveillance?

Slow down, Kathleen.

Silent Running (trailer).

Norty Blues Episode 94.

2-1/2 hours of prog rock.

Which clown are you?
Who are your Disney parents?

Huffy Radiobike [via Bunkerville].

The pyramids of Giza have eight sides.

Xmas Tree People of yore [via Mme. Jujujive].

Louis Vuitton Crack House [via Nag on the Lake].

Berens Old Fashioned Brandy Fruit Cake [h/t John McL.].

Mawson, Ninnis & Mertz [and others, via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here.]


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Last Minute Gift Ideas – Christmas Weaponry

[Images found here.  The patent drawing for Grover C. Shaible’s weapon of mass confusion (lower right) may viewed in all its glory here.]

War Machines

Collected from around the internest.
The beast at the bottom was found live by Pam M.

More beasts and Babe Magnets in this archive.

Confiscated Homemade Firearms

No gun law can keep these out of the hands of criminals.

[Images from here and here.]

THIS Is An “Assault-Style Weapon.”

I dunno, Babs, but I do know this. I’d rather have that than nothing.

[Found here.]

HOLY COW! IT’S FARMERMAN!

AKA “The Ace of Spades.”

[Found here.]

Mission Accepted.

[Found here.]

The Apache Revolver (ca. 1869)

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“The Apache Revolver is the Swiss Army knife of guns. Designed in the early 1900’s by the french gang Les Apaches this weapon was easily concealed and it is said that one bullet would always be left out of the chamber so as to not shoot yourself while it was in your pocket. Its range was very limited due to its lack of a barrel but it was an effective tool due to everything it could do, this weapon could shoot, cut and hit and could be easily folded up and placed in your pocket. Sheer Genius.”

The Wikipedia entry contradicts that description. This multi-purpose weapon was presumably designed by Louis Dolne of Belgium in 1860, went into production in 1869, and was discontinued by 1900. Here’s a quick video.

[Top image and caption from here; 2nd image from here.]