Yes, the Bow Mag, an exploding arrowhead using a real revolver cartridge.
Apparently they are not easily detonated when striking meat or tissue, but hitting sheet metal or plywood sets them off reliably.
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Apparently they are not easily detonated when striking meat or tissue, but hitting sheet metal or plywood sets them off reliably.
A Bowie knife that's also a pistol?
Way cool.
Lemme try to figger out the make / model.
Way cool.
Lemme try to figger out the make / model.
P.S. I wonder if this is considered an AOW ("any other weapon" restricted by the NFA)
because it's a gun that doesn't look like a gun. At first glance it looks like a knife.
ATF has ruled that guns that fire through wallet-holsters that disguise the guns and make them look like a wallets are AOWs.
Cane-guns or walking sticks that incorporate a single-shot pistol into their design are AOW's.
But this knife, with its big stabby blade,
is clearly a deadly weapon anyway,
so does it matter that it's deadlier than people would think when they first see one?
I really doan no.
I'm just thinking out loud.
because it's a gun that doesn't look like a gun. At first glance it looks like a knife.
ATF has ruled that guns that fire through wallet-holsters that disguise the guns and make them look like a wallets are AOWs.
Cane-guns or walking sticks that incorporate a single-shot pistol into their design are AOW's.
But this knife, with its big stabby blade,
is clearly a deadly weapon anyway,
so does it matter that it's deadlier than people would think when they first see one?
I really doan no.
I'm just thinking out loud.
As far as this gun goes, I didn't find anything saying it was categorized as an AOW, however it may we'll have been. A clue about this gun was it's from the 80's to early 90's and was made for dispatching wounded game and could double as a field dressing knife.
PKP = Powell Knife Pistol
.38 special, single shot folding knife-gun.
(I would have guessed it would be a blackpowder muzzle -stuffer to keep it out of A.O.W. classification, but no, it's a modern cartridge-using firearm.)
I can't tell if this is also a Powell product---
it's slightly different, and chambered in .45 ACP.
it's slightly different, and chambered in .45 ACP.
I believe it is. My understanding is they made the knife pistol in other calibers like .22 lr and .45 acp.You're up.
Right side, and top view (w/o magazine)
Left side view, in 2 images to get zoomed in enough for a fair amount of detail:
