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What is it? Game 80

Today's collaboration with the What is it? blog brings us this strange object (no, it's not a gun). Can you guess what it is?

Place your guess in the comment section. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you'd like. PLEASE POST NO LINKS/URLs. First one to guess correctly will win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt. If no one guessed right, then the funniest guess will win.

For a larger pic, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Update 11/7/08 - the answer is:
A chicken dispatching device, there is a sharp blade concealed by the large part at the top right, a plunger is inserted into the small hole at the end of the barrel to set the spring which is attached to the blade.

To read more details about how it works, see patent number 507,792.


Congratulations to Scotty D. Fulton who got it right!

It is a medical device, known as the spliver gun. Its inventer Jaques Abdul Karpansky, promoted it as a 'definite need for every doctor's bag, no qualified medico should be without it.' This along with testimonials that it was as 'crucial as a stethescope,' resulted in thousands of sales. The gun, and all the promotions were a totally bogus scam. Karpansky died while trying to evade authorities while crossing the frozen Fox river near Rockford Illinois. He was wearing a pair of women's high heel pump shoes and the pressure of the heel points shattered a weak portion of the ice. His body, and the satchel of gold coins he was carrying, were never recovered.
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Captive Bolt Gun?
barrel contains a bolt that shoots out [and into the brain of an animal to be slaughtered] and is retracted, thus eliminating the need for costly amunition.
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Whatever it is, it doesn't look like it's complete. If I had to take a guess I would have to say it's the firing mechanism for Dick Cheney's door bell before he got it replaced.
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It's a pogo-gun, but they have to be used in pairs. You point it at the ground, step on the part perpendicular to the barrel, and pull the trigger! Never quite caught on because you have to reload after every hop.
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It's an old carnival BB gun from an amusement park in the late 40's to 50's. A steel tube of BBs are dumped into the barrel. Note the hole in the tab at the end of the barrel. This secured it to a post anchored into the counter to keep it from being pointed at anything other than the target area.

Whaddya think? Am I right?
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Uh, huhuhuuh. I really hope no one is perusing through archived Neatorama to see that I guessed incorrectly AFTER the answer was given right below the picture.

It wasn't a turkey in the oven... it was a baby.
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