What is It? Game 28. - Neatorama

Today's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange contraption - first one to guess what it is wins a free Neatorama T-Shirt!

Place your guess in the comment section - one guess per comment, you can guess as many times as you'd like. Post no URL, please, let others play. For more clues, check out What is It? Blog.

Update 7/6/07: The answer is the Protector Palm Pistol, 7 shot , .32 caliber gun made by the Chicago Fire Arms Co. Lox Lox guessed it right, but didn't read the contest rule closely and posted an URL, so congratulations to b0rsuk who got the free Neatorama t-shirt!

It's a camera.

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It is a pocket gun

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To complete what I said, check here :
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You can see it on this website (sorry it is in French).It is called "protector"

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Looks like an old-fashioned belt-punch to me. For punching holes in a leather belt.

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I agree that its a punch of some sort, most likely leather.

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puncher made in chicago, obviously

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It looks like a pocket pistol, the kind used by assassins.

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it's a palm gun

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It is a squeeze operated pistol.

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perhaps a secret gun that's hidden in a compartment of a matchbox?

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It's an instrument of torture!

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That would be the world's first HDD! ;)

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yeah it looks like a spy camera to me.

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It looks a bit like a lighter to me. The rough part in the middle looks like it would strike a spark from a flint.

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It is a palm gun.

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It's a pocket gun

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It's a pocket gun hidden inside a box (perhaps from cigarettes or a deck of cards) so it can be used stealthily.

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It is a palm pistol.

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Chalk line dispenser for bricklaying

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Chicago Palm Pistol

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It is a pistol known as a Knuckle Duster. Popular among Gamblers. Very easy to conceal.

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It looks like the internal structure of an old-fashioned doorknob.

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A real "hand gun".

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Wow, finally a What Is It that I actually know about (although I'm not the first with the correct answer). It's a pocket pistol. It's pictured in one of my firearms history books around here somewhere.

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ItÂ´s a barbecue smoke blower.

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it is a mini hand gun. that can be easily concealed

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it's a "Lemon Squeezer" pistol, made famous because it was used to assassinate President McKinley.

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Its a gun

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It looks like a emery grinder or dremel tool :D

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Others beat me to it, but it is a gun.

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It's small concealable gun that can be fit in a palm. I have heard it called a "lemon squeezer". It's a hammerless .32 caliber squeeze gun.
It is similar to, if not the gun, that Leon Czolgosz used to assassinate William McKinley in 1901.

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I think this type of pistol was used in the assasination of president Garfield or McKinley, I'm not sure which one.

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Beat me to it also, it is a gun.

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it is a small gun used in espionage or assassinations called a lemon squeezer.

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answer to all of these games: a sex toy

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It is a "Lemon Squeezer" palm pistol, the same type suspected to be used to assassinate Pres. William McKinley.

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Post no URL, please. You'll forfeit the prize if you do.

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It is a 32 caliber pistol. Manufactured by the Chicago Fire Arms Co. The model name is "Protector", patented in 1883.

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I believe it is known as a Chicago Protector palm pistol.

According to another website, Leon Czolgosz used a .32 Iver Johnson hammerless revolver to shoot and kill McKinley, not a pistol such as this.

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It's an authentic Victorian compactable pizza cutterwheel. Used in olden Italy during the early 1800s.

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Gun

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It is a "turret pistol." It holds seven cartridges. This gun is cocked by squeezing in the lever sticking out on the right, and is fired by pressing a small trigger lever just under the barrel. What appears to be an abrasive wheel in the center is a knurled inset that the user rests their thumb against to steady the gun when cocking and firing.

You would place the gun in the palm of the right hand, with the curved lever against the heel of the hand. Then wrap your fingers around it with the barrel protruding between the index and middle finger.

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This style of gun is commonly known as a turret revolver.

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It's a safe combination chamber.

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It is the French Turbiaux Palm Squeezer Pistol patented by Jaques E. Turbiaux in the year 1882.

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ItÂ´s a pocket gun

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It's a torture device for people who don't know how to read the contest rules. Look out, it's coming right for us!

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Its a secret gun hidden in a matchbox

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I was gonna guess a stove, but everyone seems to be certain that it's a gun.

I figured that the round part was the burner, and the tube on the left goes out to a butane tank.

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This is a russian made hand cruppler. A Weevolint inspector uses this small device to make a nonsymetrical hole from which to draw a sample for semi-destructive testing. The device had to be small so that it could be concealed from the Weevolint, else drastic violence may ensue. Weevolints were finally made extinct during the Bavarian Ice riots of 1932.

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It's a automatic striker for matches, no wait it's a Finger filer, no it's a poor man's dremel

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It,s easy, it,s a minneapolis protecter (1883)
It was made in 3 cal.,s 32 center fire/32 rim fire and a very uniqe 22 bb cap rim fire.
I would love to owne one but they cost to much for me!

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Lee Van Cleef used one of these in the film Return of Sabata and it is definitely a pistol. They were originally conceived in France as a weapon for assassins and was originally available in a 10 shot 6mm and 7 shot 7mm. In the US it was chambered for .22,.32 center fire and .32 rimfire cartridges. A really nice one would probably go for $2500-$3000 today.

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