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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:04:05 JST kaia
   what's this :cirno_huh:
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:04:21 JST Sexy Moon

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     @kaia flare gun
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     Baa (baa@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:47:46 JST Baa

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     @kaia@brotka.st fl- handheld single-shot armour-piercing uranium-tipped shell launcher

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     Harry Omvlee (harryomvlee@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:47:58 JST Harry Omvlee

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     @kaia

     It looks very much like this: something to #shoot pictures.

     A very #dangerous #weapon.

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     Woody♡SOS団 (woody@varishangout.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:48:12 JST Woody♡SOS団

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     @kaia Webley No.4 Mk1* aircraft flare pistol :ina_nod:
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     Chiral! (chiralthealien@thefoxandalien.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:48:17 JST Chiral!

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     @kaia@brotka.st Hmm. From a VERY quick internet search and knowing nothing of firearms and the related stuff: My guess: British 37mm number 4 signal pistol, circa 1945 if the image is anything to go by. Similar things are termed "Model M" or "Number 4", and I have no idea if there's a difference or what that difference might be. One site selling similar things mentions "For aircraft", but how it would be used, I dunno.

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     Dyrathror (dyrathror@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 01:48:22 JST Dyrathror

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     @kaia this is WW2 British Webley & Scott No4 Mk1 flare pistol used by RAF pilots during the war.
     You can see the lugs on the barrel. These were used to attach the flare pistol inside the cockpit to a special barrel leading to the outside so that it could be fired from within a closed cockpit.

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     Chiral! (chiralthealien@thefoxandalien.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 02:06:29 JST Chiral!

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     @kaia@brotka.st Sorry if this is too much, but here's an actual explanation of similar guns, and what they're used for, and why they exist, and what the lugs on the barrel are for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3mP1bcwJU

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     monkee :foxmonkeeshark: (mp@fedi.monkee.ch)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 06:27:01 JST monkee :foxmonkeeshark:

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     • Harry Omvlee

     @harryomvlee@mastodon.nl @kaia@brotka.st Or maybe you want a picture of the guy that shot you because he felt threatened by your wack ass camera. 🤷 :politecat:

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     Harry Omvlee (harryomvlee@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 06:27:03 JST Harry Omvlee

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     @mp @kaia
     If a camera if looks like a gun you can imagine the subject's reaction, I suppose.

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     monkee :foxmonkeeshark: (mp@fedi.monkee.ch)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 06:27:05 JST monkee :foxmonkeeshark:

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     • Harry Omvlee

     @harryomvlee@mastodon.nl @kaia@brotka.st Why? :stan2: WHY? :stan:
     
     To get scared faces instead of smiles? :breadpeek: