@@owllymannstein7113 Not the same thing. I want a manually-operated magazine gun! Not even necessarily a palm gun, but something with a ring trigger maybe.
I like late 19th century guns. They are so unique and daring. People experimented with guns to learn the boundaries of gun mechanics either to avoid problems and downsides of old technology, experimenting with new or just simply show that they are different. But this gun was made because this weird system actually accomplishes one thing that it's creators strived for - compactness. And this gun is absolutely gorgeous. It's simple yet elegant looking, small and practical. Mechanics of this one was implemented because of requirements if compactness and not by sheer will or for avoiding patents like how it was common back then. It accomplishes everything that it was design for and it remain unique while doing so
In the vein of some of the comments about it not looking like a gun. Imagine being pulled over, cop approaches and you mention you're armed, they ask you to exit the vehicle and ask where the weapon is: Well Officer I have this, show them the Tribuzio; and This pulls out Ideal Conceal .38 Cell Phone gun. This as well, Stinger Pen Gun. Then an elegant English cane gun. Starts taking belt off, 'Sir there no need for that!' Oh, it's ok officer it's an antique Nazi Belt Buckle Gun. This isn't really a flashlight. Etc, Etc, Etc. Anymore? Asks the cop. You open the truck bed to show them a collection to make Demo envious. The cops partner shouts from the front, 'You forgot this little one here,' holding up what looks like a tiny .22 pistol. 'Oh that, that's actually just a lighter.'
Guys, it's a joke. Also no, it is exceedingly rare for a cop to shoot you " reaching for your registration". That will only happen if you are being exceedingly stupid yourself...
Then again you can get lighters made to look like a gun, imagine picking one of those up from your collection instead of your mini self protection back up!
@@svtirefire Darwin awards are almost always posthumous. It's possible, though rare, to remove yourself from the genepool without dying, but most are posthumous.
The requirement for which the UK (according to wikipeda) introduced in the Merchandise Act of 1887, so it fits the time of production and might have become an issue part way through the run.
Truly an Italian design to anyone familiar with Ducati motorcycles. Every part has multiple functions to reduce the number of parts. In contrast to the German and Swiss designs that have individual parts to do each function.
@@donjones4719 or, as I have heard it, "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away".
"...because the plastic pokey was patented". I love that all my favorite RUclipsrs in a given subject are at the very least aware of other people occupying their niche.
6:15 , we see the interface surface between the bolt and operating lever. If I'm reading that correctly, when the bolt is fully closed force on the bolt face is translated into the frame, not the trigger. The breech is actually locked at the moment of firing, until the trigger is released. Not that the frame is going to withstand a lot of force (by modern firearm standards) with brass and the geometry involved, but a vast improvement on the trigger finger having to hold the breech closed.
That's the patent. patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en Being the lever quite sturdy, it's only the strenght of the frame that limits the power of the cartridge (Notice that the frame wraps around the pivoting point of the lever, so that it's not the hub to be stressed). In theory you can made a Tribuzio in .45 ACP capable to accept 1911 magazines. And it will still be quite compact (the bore axis is so low that the recoil will be even pleasant).
Interesting that it requires the middle finger to shoot. A unique firearm that both shoots and insults the target simultaneously. The designer must have had a lot of anger issues.
The era from 1880-1920 really fascinates me from a historical perspective. It was right between the old world, and the very fresh, new one. I can imagine having this thing in my pocket while drinking absinthe in some Parisian bar, chatting about architecture or philosophy. Thanks for the cool video.
This just reminds me of a little Beretta my late grandfather had that fired .22 Short. Fit in the palm of my hand, and you couldn't hit a target ten meters in front of you, but boy was it fun to shoot. It was one of my fondest memories with him, him teaching my brother and I how to shoot, and I'd have liked to keep it, but drama with his wife was really ugly after he passed.
@@patrickodonnell9443 It's a museum piece: no one in their right mind would consider sourcing the ammo and firing it. However, the design is simple enough for an experienced machinist to create a replica chambered for 7.65mm/.32 ACP. But what would be the point, other than to make a proof of concept?
@@06802300 you asked what isn't to like, I provided an answer. Not everyone is into paying bloated prices for an item that will be nought but a conversation piece. You are welcome to the precious unicorn, but there is every reason to dislike what for all intent would be a fancy paperweight.
@@patrickodonnell9443 €650 is hardly a price one would refer to as 'bloated'... www.lavetrinadellearmi.it/it/arma-corta/antiche/pistola-lampo-i-118584.html
Reminds me of an old Sheriff from a neighboring county. We had responded to a man with a gun call in a small village that had no police officer. The town was right on the county line so we, as the closest full time department responded and the Sheriff of the county next door also responded. Well when we got there, we found a couple of native Americans had been partying, and got into a fight over some real or imagined slight, and did an old west walk down main street. Only problem they were both armed with little imported Italian .25 automatics. As we got there, the gunfight was at it's peak, both fellows fired, and both fell to the ground! WOW, we saw it all happen, we knew we would have two dead Indians! Not so, both appeared to have missed, but as we got closer we found each had a hole in their parka's (it was mid winter and cold as hell that night) When we got the to the clinic, we found the bullets lodged in the lining of their parka's and small bruises on their skin. Both were taken to jail, and eventually let go by the courts because the judge ruled it to be mutual combat and since there were no injuries just dropped the whole thing. However as we stood talking at the clinic, the old Sheriff (then in his late 60's) turned to me and said "If any of you guys ever shoot me with one of those blasted little guns, and I find out about it!....!
@@JerryEricsson Two feather heads get shitfaced and have a duel in the middle of the town and the judge throws the case away cause their weaponry wasnt good enough to do any real damage ... Wonderful. What shithole town was this? I want to make sure I dont end up there at any point in my life.
These ones are the coolest; like that belt-buckle gun you reviewed, you can see how they had to re-think the usual firing mechanism to get it in that package
While I love seeing all the old or forgotten military small arms Ian primarily shows I have to say that stuff like this is far more interesting. There is just something about these early designs that are super simple yet brilliant.
The "breech locking mechanism" also has a dual-use part: the shooter's finger. I would expect this to have sold slightly better in the UK than in the US. A fair number of Italians emigrated to the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire around the time this was made, to grow salad vegetables for the London market. Some of them are still in business!
It's not locked by the finger. it's called an expander lock. Due to the direction of the respective inclined surfaces, when the bolt is pushed back by the recoil, it can only push the lever downward and not rearward, so the bolt is locked. patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
The spring loaded trigger is honestly a brilliant addition for a manually-cycled weapon. I wish this had been made in a 22 cartridge of the day just so we could fire it
@@CreedManiac99 vai a capire, Magari nonna si sbaglia. Tutta via è quello che ci ha detto. Non essendoci foto per provarne la veridicità però non saprei dire
Dude if they made a modern repro of that I would SO buy it. If made with modern materials and a modern cartridge I think it would be really fun, and prolly not too expensive.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this design of pistol was what was inside my grandpas wallet pistol. One time a man tried to rob him at knife point in his driveway when he got home from work. He asked for my grandpas wallet and he said okay, pulled it out, cocked it, and scared the living crap out of the robber.
In italian and maibe I can explain the made in Italy fact . Because in italy the made in Italy logo means that Is a product of quality (specialy in other countries) and not a fake or a made in china or other countries . It Is written in english because It was Born in english . The strange fact Is that the made in Italy indication were approved in 1967 But the Madrid s agreement with the use of the made in Born in 1891 . Maibe tribuzio wanted those sign even if weren't approved yet for exportation.
I’m reminded of the gyrojet pistol, and its “feature” of ejecting all the cartridges from the magazine if you aren’t careful. It really should have had a system like this to keep them in place. Also, this seems like one of the more unpleasant trigger mechanisms I’ve seen in the palm pistols you’ve covered.
Hi, Ian. Please don't laugh... I like it. Simple and clever are things I always value. The only design element I don't like is the ring trigger. There are a lot of spray bottles or caulking guns that us a lever when in use. I think that a lever would provide a better grip and remove the fumbling around when trying to put your finger into the ring, especially under duress. Thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!
An open bolt, ring activated pocket pistol. I think I'm in love. Its too bad the inventor didn't keep going at least until the twenties. Bet he could have come up with really interesting stuff.
Hi Ian, are you interested in doing a video on the Mexican military's FX-05 Xiuhcoatl assault rifle? Aside from its polygonal rifling, Wikipedia's description of its operating system is rather odd: "The receiver which was styled after the G36 is in fact coupled with a simple gas piston similar in operation to the AK series which is then attached through a delayed roller system to the weapons recoil delaying system." This in addition to the gas piston/rotating bolt.
Neat concept! The functional reliabilty of a repeater/revolver with the slim build of a selfloading pistol. Relatively safe, as nothing stays chambered, so it´s even better than a DAO., albeit a guide with closed front would be better than the freestanding pushbar. With an additional lever/latch to lock the breach at full forward travel and chambered in .22 it may have found some more buyers, later upgraded to .25ACP...
Unfortunately Ian left out the fact that's actually already a locked breech gun. It's called an "expander lock". In theory there's no limit to the power of the ammunitions this gun can use, as long as the frame is strong enough. patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
I love the "patented plastic pokey" reference. Somehow I don't think C&Arsenal would be mad if gun jesus used a plastic pokey. They probably wouldn't even make you pay royalties
@@M.M.83-U it's kinda semi-auto. You just need to squeeze the trigger to make it work and repeat , even if you need to squeeze it hard. At least it have only 5 rounds or this would be illegal in Commiefornia
When in Reno NV. Check out the gun display collections at the Silver Legacy. The pocket pistols on display are super small and were actual guns poker players carried in Virginia city, NV. Just down interstate 80 to Sparks NV. You can find a truck stop casino. (Sierra Sid's) now a Travel Centers of America has a AWESOME gun collection to view. Also some really old expensive silver & gold coins. Sorry Ian. Had to throw my 2 cents in there. lol
@@Rooster1172T No? Would you like a list of Aussie's that say that during their products reviews?.. Let me guess, Aussie's don't say, "No worries, mate." either?... LOL
@@drubradley8821 I personally have never heard anyone say it haha but everyone says no worries mate, that should be at the end of our national anthem haha
It looks like something Lock Picking Lawyer would pick in under 10 seconds
It's the gun LockPickingLawyer and BosnianBill made...
Well you aren't wrong o.o
Amazing how many fans Gun Jesus and LPL have in common. Bet there are some AvE fans in there too.
@@DesertFernweh release the schmoo
I actually thought it was a new lock picking video.
Still better than the Zip 22
harsh language is better than the zip 22.
@@pscwplb Completely Correct
@Baby Goose i was going to say a rock is a better weapon than a zip but you're more right than i am
I apreciate the weirdness of the zip 22. I thin with better ergonomics and a better project. would make a cool "range fun" pistol.
@@Joetorres3 just change up everything so that it becomes another gun and boom: instant improvement
Italian wedding ring.
Useful for getting insurance money.
I'm still laughing
"Leave the gun...take the cannoli" 😉
As an Italian I can confirm this
I believe an "italian wedding ring" is a ruptured prophylactic and a case of the clam.
It looks almost like a steam punk cricket from men in black.
Would pay money to see a film like that.
"I feel like I'm going to break this thing!"
@@MillywiggZ R.I.P Department maybe?
That was my first thought seeing that. Also a Victorian MIB prequel could be absolutely amazing
@@MillywiggZ wasn't that the Will Smith Wild, Wild West movie?
Honestly, I wish somebody would make a pistol like this today. Everybody gangsta 'til somebody pulls a Victorian Willy Wonka gun.
"The Oompa-Loompa" would seem like a suitable name for it :)
You have North American Arms mini-revolvers, that's probably as daring as you're likely to get.
@@owllymannstein7113 Not the same thing. I want a manually-operated magazine gun! Not even necessarily a palm gun, but something with a ring trigger maybe.
@@autofox1744 As I said, nobody is likely to make anything more exotic.
Hard agree this in 9mm would slap
I like late 19th century guns. They are so unique and daring. People experimented with guns to learn the boundaries of gun mechanics either to avoid problems and downsides of old technology, experimenting with new or just simply show that they are different. But this gun was made because this weird system actually accomplishes one thing that it's creators strived for - compactness.
And this gun is absolutely gorgeous. It's simple yet elegant looking, small and practical. Mechanics of this one was implemented because of requirements if compactness and not by sheer will or for avoiding patents like how it was common back then. It accomplishes everything that it was design for and it remain unique while doing so
Ah, like the Cambrian explosion of gun design. XD
@Lassi Kinnunen Design patents expire in 15 years.
I love the style, and the precision was quite remarkable. If they had modern strength metals, just imagine...
Cringe
@@MoarteaLunii Cringe what?
In the vein of some of the comments about it not looking like a gun.
Imagine being pulled over, cop approaches and you mention you're armed, they ask you to exit the vehicle and ask where the weapon is:
Well Officer I have this, show them the Tribuzio; and
This pulls out Ideal Conceal .38 Cell Phone gun.
This as well, Stinger Pen Gun.
Then an elegant English cane gun.
Starts taking belt off, 'Sir there no need for that!' Oh, it's ok officer it's an antique Nazi Belt Buckle Gun.
This isn't really a flashlight.
Etc, Etc, Etc.
Anymore? Asks the cop.
You open the truck bed to show them a collection to make Demo envious.
The cops partner shouts from the front, 'You forgot this little one here,' holding up what looks like a tiny .22 pistol.
'Oh that, that's actually just a lighter.'
Get a life
Weird fantasy bro. I'm going to bet you're not black, otherwise you'd realize the cops would shoot you as you're reaching for your registration.
Guys, it's a joke. Also no, it is exceedingly rare for a cop to shoot you " reaching for your registration". That will only happen if you are being exceedingly stupid yourself...
@@MrSquigglies or if you're black and live in the south
@@nightmarechameleon7502 Or on drugs and you attack the cops before that. Yeah, I heard that it may happen.
Thats a lot cooler than I initially thought.
Looks like a funky Lighter. As long as you don't try to light a cigarette with the muzzle flash, you won't receive a Darwin Award in the mail
Then again you can get lighters made to look like a gun, imagine picking one of those up from your collection instead of your mini self protection back up!
Coeo ergo sum...
Gotta get the full kit, the tribuzio lighter and the welrod air pump
Who's mailing awards to a dead person?
@@svtirefire Darwin awards are almost always posthumous. It's possible, though rare, to remove yourself from the genepool without dying, but most are posthumous.
We need a Patented Wood Pokie shirt.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeesss
aaand that's a no from me..
na i'm good
There are SO Many jokes in that statement!
Non-patented wooden pokey hand.
Based
Cheap knock off pokey hands are going to sink C&Rsenal
Love the subtle shout out to C&Rsenal
The marking: zero one is just the range it is zeroed in at, in feet.
The "MADE IN ITALY" stamp being in English could also have been to allow importation into The United Kingdom.
As we know, the Brits don't speak English, they speak British
@@kevintang5473 Nah they speak Scottish, seriously try listening to Scot. Their accents are so thick.
@@kevintang5473
The primary cause of ALL the British dialects (Cockney, etc) is the penis in their mouth.
@@stevecolley6750 they conquest the majority of the world just to study the cock taste of the other people
The requirement for which the UK (according to wikipeda) introduced in the Merchandise Act of 1887, so it fits the time of production and might have become an issue part way through the run.
Truly an Italian design to anyone familiar with Ducati motorcycles. Every part has multiple functions to reduce the number of parts. In contrast to the German and Swiss designs that have individual parts to do each function.
No clutch oil, no extra farings, same old desmo valves, 2 cylinders = the sexiest bike imaginable.
A design concept that's quoted but too seldom used: the best part is no part. I love this pistol!
The idea there is not to be cheap. It is to be reliable. Which...
@@donjones4719 or, as I have heard it, "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away".
I've heard that a German designed paper clip would have 9 moving parts
2:38 I can smell the perfume of that C&R meme reference.
I don't watch C&R, so excuse me for this: Did they patent the plastic pokey thing?
Jeffrey Knickman Othias uses what he calls a “patented plastic pokey” (a small plastic pointing hand on a stick to point to different bits on a gun)
"...because the plastic pokey was patented". I love that all my favorite RUclipsrs in a given subject are at the very least aware of other people occupying their niche.
6:15 , we see the interface surface between the bolt and operating lever. If I'm reading that correctly, when the bolt is fully closed force on the bolt face is translated into the frame, not the trigger. The breech is actually locked at the moment of firing, until the trigger is released. Not that the frame is going to withstand a lot of force (by modern firearm standards) with brass and the geometry involved, but a vast improvement on the trigger finger having to hold the breech closed.
That's the patent. patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
Being the lever quite sturdy, it's only the strenght of the frame that limits the power of the cartridge (Notice that the frame wraps around the pivoting point of the lever, so that it's not the hub to be stressed). In theory you can made a Tribuzio in .45 ACP capable to accept 1911 magazines. And it will still be quite compact (the bore axis is so low that the recoil will be even pleasant).
It seems that it locks something like that - ibb.co/NZW8KDm
Thank you, I was wondering too how works its locking mechanism.
That's pretty cool and none of those pieces look too hard to make.
What you said: "Let me show it to you"
What I heard: "Let me show you its features"
😆
that phrase is also patented, like the plastic pokey
You do realize that it's a gun, not a slingshot right?
@@johnnymarengo1749 To be fair, most of Joerg's videos aren't even about slingshots anymore. Mostly bows and crossbows these days.
Interesting that it requires the middle finger to shoot. A unique firearm that both shoots and insults the target simultaneously. The designer must have had a lot of anger issues.
The era from 1880-1920 really fascinates me from a historical perspective. It was right between the old world, and the very fresh, new one. I can imagine having this thing in my pocket while drinking absinthe in some Parisian bar, chatting about architecture or philosophy.
Thanks for the cool video.
This just reminds me of a little Beretta my late grandfather had that fired .22 Short. Fit in the palm of my hand, and you couldn't hit a target ten meters in front of you, but boy was it fun to shoot. It was one of my fondest memories with him, him teaching my brother and I how to shoot, and I'd have liked to keep it, but drama with his wife was really ugly after he passed.
A compact 5 rounds pistol intended as a close quarter self defence weapon from 130 years ago: what is there not to like...?
You know this has been used to ragequit at old west card games.
I'm sure trying to find brass, let alone rounds for it would be "fun".
But yes, wonderful little conversation piece.
@@patrickodonnell9443 It's a museum piece: no one in their right mind would consider sourcing the ammo and firing it.
However, the design is simple enough for an experienced machinist to create a replica chambered for 7.65mm/.32 ACP.
But what would be the point, other than to make a proof of concept?
@@06802300 you asked what isn't to like, I provided an answer. Not everyone is into paying bloated prices for an item that will be nought but a conversation piece.
You are welcome to the precious unicorn, but there is every reason to dislike what for all intent would be a fancy paperweight.
@@patrickodonnell9443 €650 is hardly a price one would refer to as 'bloated'... www.lavetrinadellearmi.it/it/arma-corta/antiche/pistola-lampo-i-118584.html
What an elegantly simple system. I really dig the ejector/striker stop design. Thanks!
I love these little contraptions.
This is the earliest example of a striker-fired handgun I've ever seen.
I was auditing for Othias... keep up the good work. We are watching.
When you absolutely need the smallest and ugliest gun to piss some one off by shooting them.
Reminds me of an old Sheriff from a neighboring county. We had responded to a man with a gun call in a small village that had no police officer. The town was right on the county line so we, as the closest full time department responded and the Sheriff of the county next door also responded. Well when we got there, we found a couple of native Americans had been partying, and got into a fight over some real or imagined slight, and did an old west walk down main street. Only problem they were both armed with little imported Italian .25 automatics. As we got there, the gunfight was at it's peak, both fellows fired, and both fell to the ground! WOW, we saw it all happen, we knew we would have two dead Indians! Not so, both appeared to have missed, but as we got closer we found each had a hole in their parka's (it was mid winter and cold as hell that night) When we got the to the clinic, we found the bullets lodged in the lining of their parka's and small bruises on their skin. Both were taken to jail, and eventually let go by the courts because the judge ruled it to be mutual combat and since there were no injuries just dropped the whole thing. However as we stood talking at the clinic, the old Sheriff (then in his late 60's) turned to me and said "If any of you guys ever shoot me with one of those blasted little guns, and I find out about it!....!
@@JerryEricsson Two feather heads get shitfaced and have a duel in the middle of the town and the judge throws the case away cause their weaponry wasnt good enough to do any real damage ... Wonderful. What shithole town was this? I want to make sure I dont end up there at any point in my life.
Looks like something you'd expect to see Buster Crabbe brandishing in an old Flash Gordon serial. Neat little package though.
Its got such a retro sci-fi look its beautiful
I was thinking the same. I could see it in the Film Barbarella and someone making a comment about size and the importance of what you do with it ;)
Oh you were sooo close to saying "Let me show you its features!". Please do this one day, followed by a hearty chuckle.
I dunno man. If you think infringing on the plastic pokey patent is dangerous, just wait until a hail of Instant Legolas bolts starts raining down.
Ian is a national treasure
"The plastic pokey was patented"
Just go to Walmart, you can find Chinese made copies there.
Yup, that's how you recognize something that was patented - there's already 3 different cheap Chinese knockoffs of this.
I wasn't paying close attention to the thumbnail and thought it was a lockpicking lawyer video
Ian, you’re the man. Much love. Always get excited when I see you uploaded a new video.
There hasn't been a gun show this good since mail call
Oorah!
That thing is pretty dang neat! Thanks for showing us.
These ones are the coolest; like that belt-buckle gun you reviewed, you can see how they had to re-think the usual firing mechanism to get it in that package
I Really appreciate all the work you do you have an awesome channel Dude
Hey Ian, you're welcome for us tuning in. You are the best 😚
Pretty sure a bounty hunter in a galaxy far far away has used this to collect cuite a few marks.
While I love seeing all the old or forgotten military small arms Ian primarily shows I have to say that stuff like this is far more interesting. There is just something about these early designs that are super simple yet brilliant.
Simple and well thought out design
What is more lethal, this or the Volcanic?
I'd say the Volcanic, because it's heavier and thus hits harder when you throw it.
@@rickoshea8138 Yes.
This is amazing. I love how simple this is.
Extremely neat/simple design.
I am always surprised how inventive people are to solve the problem of building a firing pistol in so many different ways..
You give the bad guy a flip first and then the rest 😂
The design and engineering is quite amazing.
The "breech locking mechanism" also has a dual-use part: the shooter's finger. I would expect this to have sold slightly better in the UK than in the US. A fair number of Italians emigrated to the Lea Valley in Hertfordshire around the time this was made, to grow salad vegetables for the London market. Some of them are still in business!
Also to the Cardiff/Swansea area where there's still some Italian run ice-cream places left.
@@truckerallikatuk If there was a flow of people, a flow of Italian goods at the same time would make sense.
It's not locked by the finger. it's called an expander lock. Due to the direction of the respective inclined surfaces, when the bolt is pushed back by the recoil, it can only push the lever downward and not rearward, so the bolt is locked. patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
@@neutronalchemist3241 cool find of that patent!
@@neutronalchemist3241 Thank you. I'd noticed the geometry, but was not aware of the patent or name.
This is absolutely the stuff I love. Well I love all the stuff but the weird stuff, love it more. Thanks Ian.
Thank you , Ian .
Nice to see a bamboo chopstick, I keep one in my gun toolkit, very handy.
Most Italian design ever. Actually remarkably clever and efficient design...and more artistic than practical.
The spring loaded trigger is honestly a brilliant addition for a manually-cycled weapon. I wish this had been made in a 22 cartridge of the day just so we could fire it
That's a clever design. I feel like gun designers in the late 1800's & early 1900's were more creative than today's designers.
A lot of today's designs are like X but with Y, like a colt 1911 but in .40 S&W.
A lot of neat design in this one.
This has been my favorite "squeeze" type gun.
I love these oddball weapons on your channel.
Super cool man
I live near Turin and from what grandma told us, grandpa used to carry one of these when he "joined" the partisans. Not sure if that's completely true
non sembra proprio un'arma da partigiano
@@CreedManiac99 vai a capire, Magari nonna si sbaglia. Tutta via è quello che ci ha detto. Non essendoci foto per provarne la veridicità però non saprei dire
Si si ho un maccia di sperma sula fronte
@@gabreshaa8234 cosa? XD
@@CreedManiac99 a volte erano ridotti ad usare solo armi bianche...
E poi non credo fosse l'arma da usare nelle imboscate, piuttosto per difendersi
One of these days I really want to hear Ian say "Let me show you it's features!"
Dude if they made a modern repro of that I would SO buy it. If made with modern materials and a modern cartridge I think it would be really fun, and prolly not too expensive.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this design of pistol was what was inside my grandpas wallet pistol. One time a man tried to rob him at knife point in his driveway when he got home from work. He asked for my grandpas wallet and he said okay, pulled it out, cocked it, and scared the living crap out of the robber.
In italian and maibe I can explain the made in Italy fact .
Because in italy the made in Italy logo means that Is a product of quality (specialy in other countries) and not a fake or a made in china or other countries .
It Is written in english because It was Born in english .
The strange fact Is that the made in Italy indication were approved in 1967
But the Madrid s agreement with the use of the made in Born in 1891 .
Maibe tribuzio wanted those sign even if weren't approved yet for exportation.
Tribuzio patented the gun both in UK and USA in 1891, so probably yes, he was thinking about exporting them.
I think this in .22 could be pretty popular today
I wonder, which one of those weird and wonderful pocket pistols would actually be worth resurrecting in a modern design with modern ammo ?
I’m reminded of the gyrojet pistol, and its “feature” of ejecting all the cartridges from the magazine if you aren’t careful. It really should have had a system like this to keep them in place.
Also, this seems like one of the more unpleasant trigger mechanisms I’ve seen in the palm pistols you’ve covered.
I never thought I'd put the words in the same sentence but here it is.
Ah!! What a cute little gun.
"Ain't that a cute little gun."
-Engineer, TF2
That's borderline genius. Would be fabulous to reengineer to 22 magnum with titanium or some modern steel
Fascinating. If you handed me that thing.. it would probably take me a minute to figure out that it was even a firearm.
Thanks for showing this unique Firearm , Gun Jesus !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, Ian. Please don't laugh... I like it. Simple and clever are things I always value. The only design element I don't like is the ring trigger. There are a lot of spray bottles or caulking guns that us a lever when in use. I think that a lever would provide a better grip and remove the fumbling around when trying to put your finger into the ring, especially under duress. Thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!
The "Made in Italy" could have been for importation into the UK, such a marking was required by the Merchandise Marks Act 1887.
An open bolt, ring activated pocket pistol. I think I'm in love. Its too bad the inventor didn't keep going at least until the twenties. Bet he could have come up with really interesting stuff.
What a cool mechanism.
That’s a really unique gun super simple operation
I will say for such a simplistic design I am surprised it did not catch on
That's the world's most dangerous starting whistle
“I know what you’re thinking. Does it hold five or six rounds?”
Very cool
Good stuff, can't wait for more content. Keep up the good work. Thank you
"Let me show it to you." Ian missing a perfectly good opportunity to say "Let me show you its features.... ah ah ah"
Very interesting video, mechanically!
I would like someone to make a 22 LR version of this gun.
Hi Ian, are you interested in doing a video on the Mexican military's FX-05 Xiuhcoatl assault rifle? Aside from its polygonal rifling, Wikipedia's description of its operating system is rather odd: "The receiver which was styled after the G36 is in fact coupled with a simple gas piston similar in operation to the AK series which is then attached through a delayed roller system to the weapons recoil delaying system." This in addition to the gas piston/rotating bolt.
Sounds like the gun is having a gender crisis 🤣
@@Happyfacehotwheels wow, funny :|
Good luck with that...the Mexican govt has declared all internal details of that weapon to be a "state secret".
Hailey From Now On dilate
@@haileyredrix3102 Because it's true.
That was unexpectedly cool
Neat concept! The functional reliabilty of a repeater/revolver with the slim build of a selfloading pistol.
Relatively safe, as nothing stays chambered, so it´s even better than a DAO., albeit a guide with closed front would be better than the freestanding pushbar.
With an additional lever/latch to lock the breach at full forward travel and chambered in .22 it may have found some more buyers, later upgraded to .25ACP...
Unfortunately Ian left out the fact that's actually already a locked breech gun. It's called an "expander lock". In theory there's no limit to the power of the ammunitions this gun can use, as long as the frame is strong enough. patents.google.com/patent/US461968A/en
It seems that it locks something like that - ibb.co/NZW8KDm
@@tiortedrootsky Yeah.
I love the "patented plastic pokey" reference. Somehow I don't think C&Arsenal would be mad if gun jesus used a plastic pokey. They probably wouldn't even make you pay royalties
That tongue roll on the pronunciation, well done.
Did Ian just slip in a C&Rsenal reference and roll straight on without skipping a beat? That was smooth.
These seem really cool!
"Six-Finger, Six-Finger, Six-Finger..." 1960's 'What were they thinking?!?!' TOY.
Man alive
How did I ever get along with 5
I’m surprised the ATF doesn’t try and say this fires from an open bolt and call it a machine gun 😂
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Don't give them ideas!
It's not semiauto.
The trigger suppose to go front and back, soo it's kinda bumpstockable...
@@M.M.83-U it's kinda semi-auto. You just need to squeeze the trigger to make it work and repeat , even if you need to squeeze it hard.
At least it have only 5 rounds or this would be illegal in Commiefornia
Beautiful mechanics.
When in Reno NV. Check out the gun display collections at the Silver Legacy. The pocket pistols on display are super small and were actual guns poker players carried in Virginia city, NV. Just down interstate 80 to Sparks NV. You can find a truck stop casino. (Sierra Sid's) now a Travel Centers of America has a AWESOME gun collection to view. Also some really old expensive silver & gold coins. Sorry Ian. Had to throw my 2 cents in there. lol
Using your middle finger to dispatch an assailant seems very appropriate.
I want to see Ian or Karl use this as a back-up weapon in a Desert Brutality event
cool little gun
100% thought this was a can opener at first glance
Very cool design
As the Aussie's would say.... "A clever bit of kit."....
Nar mate, we don't.. sorry:/
@@Rooster1172T No? Would you like a list of Aussie's that say that during their products reviews?.. Let me guess, Aussie's don't say, "No worries, mate." either?... LOL
@@drubradley8821 I personally have never heard anyone say it haha but everyone says no worries mate, that should be at the end of our national anthem haha
@@Rooster1172T LOL.. .That would be AWESOME !!!!!!! LOL