Re: RARA-AVIS: Zip Gun Bop

Diane Trap (trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:33:48 -0400 (EDT) >
> As I remember, a zip gun is a homemade gun...basically you take a piece of
> heavy duty pipe and set it up with a jury rigged firing pin (a nail or
> something similar), so that when you place a bullet in the pipe and hit the
> non-business end of it, the firing pin will hit the percussion cap of the
> bullet and fire it. They're supposedly good for short range work and were
> used a lot before assault rifles were so readily available in this country.
>

Thanks very much! I was envisioning something made out of rubber
bands and clothespins. Hmmm...wonder what a ballistics specialist
would make of it--nail marks on the cartridge, no lands and grooves
from the pipe, maybe. Interesting!

-----Diane Trap
trap@rhett.libs.uga.edu
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