Interesting Unusual Guns

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by alanint

If it's the scene where two British troops load the weapon with a large, mortar style round and are firing at the German tanks coming over the bridge, it was a PIAT. The technical term is a "Spigot Mortar"

BTW, the PIAT is the only "Bazooka" style weapon from WW2 you can own without any ATF approval or other permits.

Yeah, that was the scene! here's another pic, a cut-away showing the 'propelling mechanism', that is slightly different...