Word "Revolver" Used to Describe German Handguns

unspellable · 03-11-2003, 08:42 AM

max2cam, this has no bearing whatsoever on your argument, but the Dardick revolver has a magazine, so there is such a thing as a revolver with a magazine.

I guess the lesson here is that no matter how off the wall the concept, there is some obscure friearm somewhere that employed it.

The Dardick once saw very limited production as a handgun. The action principal has gone on to be employed in a motor driven 20 mm machine gun for use in aircraft. I've not heard that it has progressed much beyond the developemental stage, although it appears to work quite well. (And yes, it is a revolver, not a Gatling, operates with one barrel, although I think a blend of the Gatling and Dardick would be interesting, spreads out the barrel heating effects.)

As for use of the various terms, we mangle them badly enough in the English speaking context, without dragging in the complication of translation from German. We call self loaders or semi-autos automatics, we call a self cocking lock a double action only lock, (a prime example of an oxymoron), and there is the old bit about the automatic revolver, when the object under discussion is very obviously not a Webley-Fosberry. We call rifles guns, and probably with malice aforethought, the anti gun crowd calls anything with quasi military cosmetics an assault rifle.

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unspellable User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 769 Thanks: 0 Thanked 20 Times in 12 Posts	max2cam, this has no bearing whatsoever on your argument, but the Dardick revolver has a magazine, so there is such a thing as a revolver with a magazine. I guess the lesson here is that no matter how off the wall the concept, there is some obscure friearm somewhere that employed it. The Dardick once saw very limited production as a handgun. The action principal has gone on to be employed in a motor driven 20 mm machine gun for use in aircraft. I've not heard that it has progressed much beyond the developemental stage, although it appears to work quite well. (And yes, it is a revolver, not a Gatling, operates with one barrel, although I think a blend of the Gatling and Dardick would be interesting, spreads out the barrel heating effects.) As for use of the various terms, we mangle them badly enough in the English speaking context, without dragging in the complication of translation from German. We call self loaders or semi-autos automatics, we call a self cocking lock a double action only lock, (a prime example of an oxymoron), and there is the old bit about the automatic revolver, when the object under discussion is very obviously not a Webley-Fosberry. We call rifles guns, and probably with malice aforethought, the anti gun crowd calls anything with quasi military cosmetics an assault rifle.