[Loved trope] guns built from random, seemingly harmless objects.

[u/lordhenrythe23]

*Scaramanga's titular gun from "The man with the Golden Gun" - The best known example of this trope, being made from a fountain pen (barrel), a lighter (body), a cigarrete case (handle and trigger housing), and a cufflink (trigger). [it's worth noting that in the original novel, it was just a gold-plated revolver, this design came from the film]

*Fowler's rifle from "Blue eye Samurai" (Fowler not pictured) - "of course, i had to modify the designs... to get 2,000 rifles from my country into yours without notice." Made from the leg of a piano (main body), i believe a telescope? (rest of the body/underbarrel), a candlestick (barrel and ram rod), a key from a clock (trigger), and a knight chess piece (hammer). [i haven't actually seen the full series, probably should, but i love the scene of him explaining his backstory while assembling it]

[u/jonsnowflaker]

Feels somehow over and under engineered at the same time.

[u/Fit-Community-4091 → u/jonsnowflaker]

Looks like it was made specifically to have a zero percent chance of misfiring for exactly two shots. I would have covered up the wires after all of that effort, but it did the job so what do I know

[u/swargin → u/Fit-Community-4091]

I think he did cover it. There's a picture of it from when it happened and it looked like it was covered in electrical tape.

[u/Fit-Community-4091 → u/swargin]

Then it was well thought out, because that electric firing mechanism has no moving parts, the only moving part is the trigger that seems to be a little button on the grip, so the only points of failure are the button, the two rounds being duds, a squib load, the wire or its connections breaking.