Hi Steve,
Sorry if you thought i was p****d off with you last night, i was not old bean, just tired, it was after 3 in the morning.
As for understanding American humour, i think i get it having worked in Montana and Wyoming for several months a couple of years back.
Anyway, the flare pistol.... Having slept on it, it has come to mind that the weapon may well have been converted in field, for use in humanely killing horses. This is not as silly as it may at first sound. The Germans used many tens of thousands of horses in all different units during the war for transport etc. At times it would be inevitable that casualties would arise and need to be humanely dispatched. A silencer would be fitted to the pistol so as not to disturb/upset other horses in the vicinity. Still laughing?
It is a rule of the Jockey Club here and elsewhere across the world that the weapon MUST be silenced/moderated, that makes common sense to me.
As already pointed out here, your pistol, lacking even rudimentary sights, being single shot and difficulty in reloading quickly condemns it as being an extremely rare assassins weapon of choice...why not just moderate a P-38 or PPK?
Probability and mundane necessity suggest that to me, anyway, the pistol was cleverly converted, probably in the field, for the dispatching of horses. It fits the bill precisely for this operation, whereas it does not, unfortunately, for your assumption.
Regards, Ned.
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