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I can't remember which prison turned museum I saw it in (might have been Alcatraz or one of the gold rush ghost towns here in California) but they had a whole case of cobbled together guns and the one that was the most impressive was the one made entirely out of toilet paper they somehow treated to be really hard.
Reminds me of a NoLa cop telling stories about a perp with a black powder .44 revolver, but had .38s rolled in duct tape to ‘make the bullets fit’
“Can we give it back to him??? He’s only going to hurt himself”
“…no. Book him”
Zip looks like a tar. (Unix joke.)
Seems like something that needs to be fired point blank, in which case it's like a shiv that can easily malfunction.
Neat, but more of a curiosity than effective
I'm just wondering where the inmate got a 22 caliber bullet from
Perhaps a smuggled in round, people are smuggling in cellphones a single cartridge aught to be even easier.
Or maybe:
From his prison wallet, of course.
A number of years ago I had to go to a state prison where an inmate had been attacked with a bundle of fireworks thrown into his cell. The source was apparently visitors figuring out a spot before the security checkpoint where they could huck a grocery bag over the wall and have it land somewhere prisoners could get to in the yard.
That particular security hole has been closed, but criminals are like velociraptors and are constantly testing fences for holes.
That's crazy!! Thanks for sharing
Did the ignition of the shell cause the hole in the middle (glasses expanding)?
I'm assuming that's where the 22 was loaded into the "barrel".
I imagine this was a 1 shot item.
glasses
Drinking- or eye-glasses?