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Unread 04-16-2011, 09:17 AM   #5
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Forgotten Weapons has a PDF manual and a couple paragraphs + pics of a Mars pistol...Interesting/amusing comment - "...the extreme cycling of the weapon (the bolt would pass halfway over the firer’s forearm), and the overly complicated design doomed it to be rejected."

Yes, that would convince me...

http://www.forgottenweapons.com/mars-pistol
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