I love how he openly acknowledges Ian's video. Ian and Jonathan are the kind of people who make inherently boring topics interesting, where you actually want to listen to them
Indeed! In an era of online tribalism, on a platform known for its septic comment section, it is so delightful to see that kind of gentlemanly acknowledgement.
They wrote a book together and collaborate alot. Ian, Jonathan and other fireaem youtubers like C&rsenal seem to get along well. They all appreciate the academic and engineering side of guns.
@@hugolevesque1570 RUclips's famous comment section, I find to be what TV Tropes calls an Informed Flaw. I'm still waiting to actually see one of these cancerous RUclips comments we hear so much about.
If there's some game developer watching this, please add this weapon to your game AND put a damn picatinny rail on it just to freak Jonathan out when he sees it. Congrats Royal Armouries!
@@jonathanferguson1211 wait... THE Jonathan Ferguson? You just made my day, so am gonna belive it and gonna brag about this till the day I die. Greetings from Chile and congrats on the subs :D
@@jonathanferguson1211 Not possible? Nonsense. Just use the side where the embellishment is attached on your example, the side that would be opposite the palm. Mount the rail on a bit of metal so that it would protrude a bit outside the hand, and then put a laser on the rail. Presto, it's a distance weapon. :)
The sheer amount of pride and happiness exhibited when he talks about the play button is just the best. Really happy for him, although he should have *at least* a million if I'm honest. Cmon people, sub.
I had the opportunity to fiddle around with one of the US built Protectors back when I was in High School (a friend's dad was a gunsmith and had a guy who would bring in some rare firearms). Craziest weapon I've ever held in my hands.
Ian McCollum has a good description for these.:"to be used at bad breath distances", but "phone booth distance" is also very good, too. A bit of improvement to a fist fight, punching holes.
You made me yawn, sloth Edit: I did not mean this as a disparaging remark directed toward your comment, but instead simply as a humourous reference to your username
I often feel I don't understand enough about the mechanics of a conventional gun to appreciate the nuances and experimentation displayed in this series, so I'm very happy to see a gun that is so obviously odd that anyone can appreciate it even with zero expertise
You're going to have to practice a bit no matter how you're holding it. But realistically, how could anyone buy one of these and not immediately go and do some target shooting?
Still helps to get horizontally on target, being too low probably wouldn't matter that much at close range and with training the drop would always be the same so you could learn to adjust by aiming a little higher.
museums from all over the world should take notes here. this is how you reach the audience that might not be able or want to visit a museum in person. and maybe it'll even generate some additional income. I imagine it has for you guys. well done!
Congratulations! Really well deserved. The Armouries is such an amazing museum and Jonathan is an excellent and knowledgeable teacher/presenter. Great work all round.
About the decorations on the larger version, doesn't that look a bit too dark blue to be turquoise? My guess would be lapis lazuli or possibly sodalite. As for the attachment method, I would agree that they were most likely soldered on with lead solder. Brazing or hard soldering would involve too high temperatures and would probably ruin the black inlay as well as destroying the tempering on any springs or other bits of hardened steel. Great video, and an awesome piece of history!
I have been watching quite a lot of your uploads, I like the fact that you provide a history to each and every item you make a video about. In short.. Great job!
Jonathan is an awesome teacher and makes me want to learn more about firearms i live in Hull which is only 1 hour away from leeds so ill definatly be paying the royal armouries a visit !
I just find it so amazing that Jonathan just references Ian in this video, they're both gun gods and they're well aware of it, it's absolutely wonderful
Editing has gotten a little better, like more then one camera angle. Glad to see Johnathin with some editing support. John and Ian are international treasures.
oooh you got the plate! Congratulations Royal Armouries! You're on the road to the million, and with this content i am very sure you will indeed get there.
Mission accomplished! It should be an honor that shall be relished and cherished, so glad for you, the team, and the museum for doing an outstanding job. It clearly comes across the screen to see an organization, such as the museum, that does such a phenomenal job! Bravo!
Brilliant . You are one of the , if not the best channel I have found on RUclips. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and upload..
Congratulations on the award.!!!! If you used that as a knuckle duster, the barrel would easily break a rib. Then when you shoot them, they get a punctured lung
im not big on swords i came to this channel for the firearms, but you need to have a sword guy as well there are just as many people interested in that sort of thing.
hell yeah glad to see yall got a play button you guys disserve it for the incredible work you do on and off the screen. i shall someday visit and try my hardest to not drool on the display cases .
Is it a revolver? Is it a pistol? Is it a brass-knuckles?... IT'S LE PROTECTEUR! Congrats for the 100k subscribers, hope the channel reaches 200k in no time
Congratulations on the plaque Johnathan, very well deserved for both you and the whole team at RA for all your work during the last difficult two years! Considering the negative stigma around firearms in the UK, you've done a great service in showing that preserving historical value and the education that provides on (multiple) nation's histories outweighs any current negative political sentiment. Onwards towards gold.. and your inevitable MBE! ;D
The blue stone on the decoration could be lapis. I have a necklace with a stone that exact color and it is lapis. It seems a bit dark of a blue for turquoise. Also, congrats on 100k!!!
Seriously impressive background. The improved audio and video quality is long overdo. It will the improve the audience experience while viewing your fascinating content. Congratulations on your accomplishments, well deserved.
These like most pocket pistols are most effective at just outside of arm's reach and closer. Also known as "poker table distance." That said, I have an Iver Johnson pocket revolver in the fairly wimpy .32 S&W (Sometimes called S&W Short. Very close in power to the 8mm rimfire discussed here.) My Great Grandfather used to use it to shoot rabbits as he _rode his horse_ from his farmhouse to the schoolhouse where he was the teacher. In North Dakota in the 1920's wild game was a big part of their diet. I've shot it a bit, and it's definitely capable of hitting a rabbit sized target at up to 10 meters. Which I must say surprised me. I don't know if I could head-shot a rabbit at that distance, but a shoulder shot is not unreasonable.
Yes, I'm not sure if it made the edit, but I always say '10 metres' when asked about effective pistol range. Even I can hit a target at twice or three times that distance, but could I if I was being shot at or having to move? Nope! Obviously some have the talent/experience, like your great grandpa. Rabbits from horseback is seriously impressive.
@@brokeandtired I doubt there was much air rifle rabbit hunting going on in Great Britain in 1920ish. Sure there were air rifles, but the rules for firearms ownership in the UK were much different then. .32 caliber was considered a good small game hunting round on both sides of the Atlantic back in the day, when .22 long rifle wasn't as prevalent as it is today.
@@jonathanferguson1211 "Combat range" and "hunting range" are a little bit different too. I don't shoot at people, but if I were ever in that position and the other person was more than about 7 metres away I wouldn't be attempting the shot. I would be running away. I've had plenty of experience on the range shooting at 15 metres and I'm good, but that's not with someone shooting back at me. At more than 10 metres even if the other guy is a good shot I think my chances of running are better than my chances of hitting him before he hits me. My Great Grandfather was a good shot. I have pictures somewhere from back then with him and strings of dozens of ducks and rabbits laid out on the lawn. I have no clue what they were going to do to preserve them. He died when I was 5.
@@tarmaque .32 is good enough to kill a human, so it's better than .22LR...Also air rifles were very common in the 1920's for rabbit hunting in Britain, because break action BSA rifles were cheap for children ( it was a popular pastime for UK teenagers ), it put food on the table and helped farms with pest problems. In fact it's still a thing in England in rural communities. Ammo is cheap and unlike a firearm it requires no licence ( outside of Scotland ).
Honestly, I believe the palm protector is probably the most successful turret revolver of all of these kind. It's just a beautiful of self-defense-oriented firearms. Wow. Just wow...
congrats man love your stuff i think you've got a great way of explaining stuff, I know nothing about guns being British n all but I love the history. super cool
Putting aside Le Protector and its surprising practicality at fisticuffs range, woah, look at those background racks. I'm sure it would be smoother if we could look down the aisle, but Carcano, Carcano, Vetterli-Vitali, Carcano, ARX160 is certainly a... stark contrast.
You know, I think this concept would still be fairly viable, even more so with modern smokeless ammunition (.32 H&R Magnum maybe), and perhaps a discrete laser for point shooting.
Now that you're certified by youtube, hopefully more people will visit and see the knight armour with codpieces. Guns are cool but phallic metal pants are the best.
Wow. It was just a couple days ago while riding the train, that I was randomly wondering if anyone ever invented a knuckle brass type multi barreled handgun. This is pretty close.
Congratulations on the well-deserved reward! I always look forward to your videos. Was the carry of these legal back in the late 19th, early 20th century in Europe (primarily GB and France) or was it sort of like in more restrictive areas here in the states where those in need just carry anyway and figuring the small risk of arrest is worth the risk?
Also, as a rather "enthusiastic" collector of old arms, I have an early S&W safety hammerless 5-shot revolver that some 19th Century gunsmith cut the barrel down about as short as it can go, remounted the front sight, and recrowned the barrel. It makes it look like pretty muich anything but a gun in a pocket. In .32 S&W it's not really a viable modern defensive gun (though I have toted it about in the woods for encounters with dangerous beasts ... very, very small dangerous beats ... okay, mostly just because I could). But it's a fun range toy and bit of history. Amazingly, even at 15 yards (about 13.5 meters) it can still hit a soda can. Anyway, my long-winded blather was just saying that in a way that was competition to the Palm Pistol, overall similar in size, though holding less bullets.
According to Wikipedia, the UK had no restrictions on concealed carry in the late 19th century or in the early 20th century, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_the_United_Kingdom#Pistols_Act_1903
Alright alright alright. Apologies for the audio of the earlier upload. Now engage BOTH of your ears and feast on Jonathan's dulcet tones.
Thank you
Jonathan has a nice voice and gives a good ear feel
@@Azguella Royal Amouries ASMR
Some beautiful English accent for my ears. Greetings from Argentina!
@@crispindry2815 They will remain fondly in our hearts/on internet archive.
I love how he openly acknowledges Ian's video. Ian and Jonathan are the kind of people who make inherently boring topics interesting, where you actually want to listen to them
Indeed! In an era of online tribalism, on a platform known for its septic comment section, it is so delightful to see that kind of gentlemanly acknowledgement.
@@hugolevesque1570 They have quite literally collab’d before, more than once too if I recall correctly.
They wrote a book together and collaborate alot. Ian, Jonathan and other fireaem youtubers like C&rsenal seem to get along well. They all appreciate the academic and engineering side of guns.
@@hugolevesque1570 RUclips's famous comment section, I find to be what TV Tropes calls an Informed Flaw. I'm still waiting to actually see one of these cancerous RUclips comments we hear so much about.
I've seen a video they made together a while back but I had no idea they collaborated one a book too!
Also how the way he moves the plaque with the gloves and lay down like a delicate firearms is pretty awesome. Now let's go to the million botton.
botton
He’s very purposeful with some of these firearms handling them very gingerly and I do appreciate the care he takes
Ummm....what?
@@rileyclarke6594 what’s the matter?
If there's some game developer watching this, please add this weapon to your game AND put a damn picatinny rail on it just to freak Jonathan out when he sees it. Congrats Royal Armouries!
Luckily, I'm not sure that would even be possible in this case :) They'll probably hang a charm off the end of it though... Maybe a tiger stripe skin.
@@jonathanferguson1211 wait... THE Jonathan Ferguson? You just made my day, so am gonna belive it and gonna brag about this till the day I die. Greetings from Chile and congrats on the subs :D
@@jonathanferguson1211 Not possible? Nonsense. Just use the side where the embellishment is attached on your example, the side that would be opposite the palm. Mount the rail on a bit of metal so that it would protrude a bit outside the hand, and then put a laser on the rail. Presto, it's a distance weapon. :)
@@jonc4403 You're a very bad man.
@@capturedflame I doubt I've achieved that level of notoriety, and hopefully they have better things to do :)
Jonathan looks so chuffed with the 100k award, well deserved guys 👌
The fact that thing fires multiple shots blew my mind, quite a threatening device.
Congrats! So nice to see you excited with the RUclips Plate. You (and the Armoury) deserved it, Sir. 😄
Thank you! Definitely a team effort - especially now with this setup.
@@jonathanferguson1211 fantastic work from a fantastic team
The sheer amount of pride and happiness exhibited when he talks about the play button is just the best. Really happy for him, although he should have *at least* a million if I'm honest. Cmon people, sub.
The smile on Jonathan's face in the beginning while showing off the silver play button is priceless.
Still can’t wait to visit! 👍😊
I had the opportunity to fiddle around with one of the US built Protectors back when I was in High School (a friend's dad was a gunsmith and had a guy who would bring in some rare firearms). Craziest weapon I've ever held in my hands.
Ian McCollum has a good description for these.:"to be used at bad breath distances", but "phone booth distance" is also very good, too. A bit of improvement to a fist fight, punching holes.
It’s kinda like a naa revolver.something you can drop into your pocket and at be a self defense weapon to hopefully fend off a wild rapscalion.
One of the best gun channels on RUclips and it’s British too! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
100,000 SUBS! Way to go, your channel is amazing
Thank you - sloths are also amazing :)
You made me yawn, sloth
Edit: I did not mean this as a disparaging remark directed toward your comment, but instead simply as a humourous reference to your username
I often feel I don't understand enough about the mechanics of a conventional gun to appreciate the nuances and experimentation displayed in this series, so I'm very happy to see a gun that is so obviously odd that anyone can appreciate it even with zero expertise
Congrats on the play button to you all, hope to be visiting the museum early next year!
We need to get you guys to a million. You certainly deserve it.
Jonathan doing his best force ghost impression in the thumbnail...
congrats on the silver play button, guys!
Much improved camera work complements your excellent content. Congratulations on silver award!
My mans got *two* camera angles now
Fancy
I like this more offical kinda formal style of presentation
It’s a nice mood
He have an unique bold/strong Classy, modest personality, it's so rare to meet people like him
"I think that would improve your chances of hitting the target"
*Muzzle points down from where he is pointing*
maybe not
You're going to have to practice a bit no matter how you're holding it. But realistically, how could anyone buy one of these and not immediately go and do some target shooting?
give him some credit, you'd fuck up holding this too without an aid like a laser.
Still helps to get horizontally on target, being too low probably wouldn't matter that much at close range and with training the drop would always be the same so you could learn to adjust by aiming a little higher.
The kind of situations these would expected to be used in would generally be close enough that it could still cut it.
Congratulations Jonathan and team, excellent work over the years! here's to gold and diamond!
Let's goooo Jonathan! Let's goooo Royal Armouries!
Congrats!!
museums from all over the world should take notes here. this is how you reach the audience that might not be able or want to visit a museum in person. and maybe it'll even generate some additional income. I imagine it has for you guys. well done!
Thank you very much for the information, Jonathan! Can't wait to visit the Leeds Museum in April when I'm in the country! Keep up the great work!
We look forward to seeing you then!
congratulations jonathan and royal armouries crew on your 100k plaque! :D
Congratulations! Really well deserved. The Armouries is such an amazing museum and Jonathan is an excellent and knowledgeable teacher/presenter. Great work all round.
About the decorations on the larger version, doesn't that look a bit too dark blue to be turquoise? My guess would be lapis lazuli or possibly sodalite.
As for the attachment method, I would agree that they were most likely soldered on with lead solder. Brazing or hard soldering would involve too high temperatures and would probably ruin the black inlay as well as destroying the tempering on any springs or other bits of hardened steel.
Great video, and an awesome piece of history!
Agreed, was thinking lapis lazuli
Jonathan's not a gemologist so it was a guess.
Congrats on the plaque my friends! Much love and I have cannot wait to be here for the 500k and million sub videos 🍻
I have been watching quite a lot of your uploads, I like the fact that you provide a history to each and every item you make a video about. In short.. Great job!
Literally deadly fingerguns. Add some wayfarer shades and a wink and you get a +10 to your charisma roll
Much love from America, great budding channel Jonathan.
Thank you! Looking forward to getting back Stateside soon.
Well deserved. Great new setup, backdrop and all.
Congratulations! And as always, an interesting video!
Jonathan is an awesome teacher and makes me want to learn more about firearms
i live in Hull which is only 1 hour away from leeds so ill definatly be paying the royal armouries a visit !
Guess I’ll have to watch it again! Lol
Congrats on the 100,000 subs! And another great video, which may or may not have inspired a D&D weapon…
That's how we get ya. Thanks for the support David
Loving the production quality here!
I just find it so amazing that Jonathan just references Ian in this video, they're both gun gods and they're well aware of it, it's absolutely wonderful
Hell yeah moved on to a table and camera tripod. Stoked to see the channel success and the improvements yall have been making.
Editing has gotten a little better, like more then one camera angle. Glad to see Johnathin with some editing support. John and Ian are international treasures.
oooh you got the plate!
Congratulations Royal Armouries!
You're on the road to the million, and with this content i am very sure you will indeed get there.
Thank you! With that username I'm guessing you followed me over from Gamespot :)
Great new format and audio. Congratulations on the play button.
I came across ur channel because of ur great video weapons reviews
Congrats Jonathan
Congrats on the play button!
Well done on 100k!!!! Must visit the Royal Armoury next time I'm in England
Thanks for the amazing content! That silver awards is well earned, looking forward to soon see the golden plaque!
Congratulations on the 100k. Here’s to the next 100k.
Wow! Look at the ARX behind him! It's cool that you guys have modern firearms, too.
fantastic as always
Congratulations! 👏👏👏👏
Great with a few close ups this could be brilliant, thanks love what you do
Great new setup! Congratulations!
Mission accomplished! It should be an honor that shall be relished and cherished, so glad for you, the team, and the museum for doing an outstanding job. It clearly comes across the screen to see an organization, such as the museum, that does such a phenomenal job! Bravo!
Brilliant . You are one of the , if not the best channel I have found on RUclips. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and upload..
Congratulations on the award.!!!!
If you used that as a knuckle duster, the barrel would easily break a rib.
Then when you shoot them, they get a punctured lung
Or point it at a head hole
hell get an Apache knuckle duster brass knuckles a revolver and a knife all in one!!!
@@julianshepherd2038 If you hit a head hole with the barrel, pulling the trigger wouldn't really serve any purpose anymore.
Oh... Great.
Thanks Jonathan and team. A really interesting and peculiar firearm and congratulations on your 100,000 subscriber award.
Know what thank you for the history and love you put into this series and I'm so glad you guys preserve history
Congratulations on the 100k award, really well deserved :)
Well deserved, let's get him to the next level. Like his videos, promote this treasure of a person.
you deserve another 10,000,000 great content.....
im not big on swords i came to this channel for the firearms, but you need to have a sword guy as well there are just as many people interested in that sort of thing.
Wowe that's a step up in quality, love the close shots and the background is epic. Keep up the great content!
Gungrats on the Silver Play button! I await y'all hitting Diamond!
I really like the new "set"! Keep it up, Jonathan. You always add very interesting things even on weapons that Ian has already covered.
new set uo looks great, lovely video as always, thanks Jonathan and team!
hell yeah glad to see yall got a play button you guys disserve it for the incredible work you do on and off the screen. i shall someday visit and try my hardest to not drool on the display cases .
Congrats on the 100k, 1M next.
So great to finally see you with a better video and audio setup. Vastly improved the overall quality. P.S. Congratulations on the RUclips plaque!
Is it a revolver? Is it a pistol? Is it a brass-knuckles?... IT'S LE PROTECTEUR!
Congrats for the 100k subscribers, hope the channel reaches 200k in no time
Congratulations on the plaque Johnathan, very well deserved for both you and the whole team at RA for all your work during the last difficult two years! Considering the negative stigma around firearms in the UK, you've done a great service in showing that preserving historical value and the education that provides on (multiple) nation's histories outweighs any current negative political sentiment. Onwards towards gold.. and your inevitable MBE! ;D
Congratulations on 100,000 subs!
The blue stone on the decoration could be lapis. I have a necklace with a stone that exact color and it is lapis. It seems a bit dark of a blue for turquoise.
Also, congrats on 100k!!!
Congrats on the play button! 🎉
Congratulations on 100k subs!
Gratz on the play button
Seriously impressive background. The improved audio and video quality is long overdo. It will the improve the audience experience while viewing your fascinating content. Congratulations on your accomplishments, well deserved.
more ultra compact guns please! they`re super interesting
These like most pocket pistols are most effective at just outside of arm's reach and closer. Also known as "poker table distance."
That said, I have an Iver Johnson pocket revolver in the fairly wimpy .32 S&W (Sometimes called S&W Short. Very close in power to the 8mm rimfire discussed here.) My Great Grandfather used to use it to shoot rabbits as he _rode his horse_ from his farmhouse to the schoolhouse where he was the teacher. In North Dakota in the 1920's wild game was a big part of their diet.
I've shot it a bit, and it's definitely capable of hitting a rabbit sized target at up to 10 meters. Which I must say surprised me. I don't know if I could head-shot a rabbit at that distance, but a shoulder shot is not unreasonable.
Yes, I'm not sure if it made the edit, but I always say '10 metres' when asked about effective pistol range. Even I can hit a target at twice or three times that distance, but could I if I was being shot at or having to move? Nope! Obviously some have the talent/experience, like your great grandpa. Rabbits from horseback is seriously impressive.
Rabbits are hunted with air rifles in Britain. So a wimpy .32 is overkill.
@@brokeandtired I doubt there was much air rifle rabbit hunting going on in Great Britain in 1920ish. Sure there were air rifles, but the rules for firearms ownership in the UK were much different then. .32 caliber was considered a good small game hunting round on both sides of the Atlantic back in the day, when .22 long rifle wasn't as prevalent as it is today.
@@jonathanferguson1211 "Combat range" and "hunting range" are a little bit different too. I don't shoot at people, but if I were ever in that position and the other person was more than about 7 metres away I wouldn't be attempting the shot. I would be running away. I've had plenty of experience on the range shooting at 15 metres and I'm good, but that's not with someone shooting back at me. At more than 10 metres even if the other guy is a good shot I think my chances of running are better than my chances of hitting him before he hits me.
My Great Grandfather was a good shot. I have pictures somewhere from back then with him and strings of dozens of ducks and rabbits laid out on the lawn. I have no clue what they were going to do to preserve them. He died when I was 5.
@@tarmaque .32 is good enough to kill a human, so it's better than .22LR...Also air rifles were very common in the 1920's for rabbit hunting in Britain, because break action BSA rifles were cheap for children ( it was a popular pastime for UK teenagers ), it put food on the table and helped farms with pest problems. In fact it's still a thing in England in rural communities. Ammo is cheap and unlike a firearm it requires no licence ( outside of Scotland ).
Always wanted one of these.
great work, awesome content
Congratulations on the plaque! Here's to many more subscribers (and videos) going forward! Are there many other examples of turret revolvers?
Honestly, I believe the palm protector is probably the most successful turret revolver of all of these kind. It's just a beautiful of self-defense-oriented firearms. Wow. Just wow...
Great video
Well done on the Award
Well done! An excellent chanel, you truly deserve it!
Major congrats on the youtube plaque !
Congratulations!
such a cool backdrop
itd be nice to see a video on that ARX behind Jonathon :)
congrats man love your stuff i think you've got a great way of explaining stuff, I know nothing about guns being British n all but I love the history. super cool
Thank you. And hey, I once knew nothing about guns, being British also :) There are a few of us who can hold their own with our American friends.
Putting aside Le Protector and its surprising practicality at fisticuffs range, woah, look at those background racks. I'm sure it would be smoother if we could look down the aisle, but Carcano, Carcano, Vetterli-Vitali, Carcano, ARX160 is certainly a... stark contrast.
you are a lucky man especially for someone in the uk with our laws, speaking of do you personally need a licence to deal with all these weapons?
Congratulations! Here's to the next 100,000 🍺🍺
You know, I think this concept would still be fairly viable, even more so with modern smokeless ammunition (.32 H&R Magnum maybe), and perhaps a discrete laser for point shooting.
Now that you're certified by youtube, hopefully more people will visit and see the knight armour with codpieces. Guns are cool but phallic metal pants are the best.
Wow. It was just a couple days ago while riding the train, that I was randomly wondering if anyone ever invented a knuckle brass type multi barreled handgun. This is pretty close.
Congratulations on the well-deserved reward! I always look forward to your videos.
Was the carry of these legal back in the late 19th, early 20th century in Europe (primarily GB and France) or was it sort of like in more restrictive areas here in the states where those in need just carry anyway and figuring the small risk of arrest is worth the risk?
Also, as a rather "enthusiastic" collector of old arms, I have an early S&W safety hammerless 5-shot revolver that some 19th Century gunsmith cut the barrel down about as short as it can go, remounted the front sight, and recrowned the barrel. It makes it look like pretty muich anything but a gun in a pocket. In .32 S&W it's not really a viable modern defensive gun (though I have toted it about in the woods for encounters with dangerous beasts ... very, very small dangerous beats ... okay, mostly just because I could). But it's a fun range toy and bit of history. Amazingly, even at 15 yards (about 13.5 meters) it can still hit a soda can. Anyway, my long-winded blather was just saying that in a way that was competition to the Palm Pistol, overall similar in size, though holding less bullets.
According to Wikipedia, the UK had no restrictions on concealed carry in the late 19th century or in the early 20th century, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_the_United_Kingdom#Pistols_Act_1903