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The inside of this funky weapon looks more Rube Goldberg than machine gun (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

The French took the badly designed M1905 Puteaux machine gun and fixed it to make the horribly designed St. Etienne M1907.

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This bejeweled Swiss ‘gun’ hides a surprise you would never expect (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

Around 1815 the Geneva workshop of Frères Rochat created a handful of "pistols" that actually concealed an extremely complicated music box and an automaton bird that pops out of the barrels.

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