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Sleeve gun

{{Short description|Small firearm}}

Sleeve gun and wrist gun are generic terms for a small firearm designed to be concealed under a long-sleeved coat or jacket—in fictional examples there is often a device with a mechanism to extend it out into the hand to fire.

Real examples

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The "sleeve gun" was developed during World War II by Station IX of the Special Operations Executive. The design was by Hugh Reeves.{{cite AV media |people=Jonathan Ferguson |date=15 Jun 2022 |title=The silenced, concealable stripped back Welrod, with weapons and firearms expert, Jonathan Ferguson |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4IIKeHIp8 |access-date=4 August 2022 |time=1:40-1:50 |publisher=Royal Armouries}} It was essentially a version of the noise-suppressed Welrod pistol, minus the pistol grip, and produced in both .32 ACP and 9×19mm.{{cite web |url=http://www.timelapse.dk/thesleevegun.php |title=Sleeve Gun |publisher=Timelapse |accessdate=2011-01-19}}Fredric Boyce and Douglas Everett. SOE The Scientific Secrets. Between 150 and 200 of the guns were manufactured almost certainly by Birmingham Small Arms Company.{{cite AV media |people=Jonathan Ferguson |date=15 Jun 2022 |title=The silenced, concealable stripped back Welrod, with weapons and firearms expert, Jonathan Ferguson |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4IIKeHIp8 |access-date=4 August 2022 |time=9:10-9:30 |publisher=Royal Armouries}}{{cite AV media |people=Jonathan Ferguson |date=15 Jun 2022 |title=The silenced, concealable stripped back Welrod, with weapons and firearms expert, Jonathan Ferguson |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4IIKeHIp8 |access-date=4 August 2022 |time=10:30-11:00 |publisher=Royal Armouries}} A Mark 1 version was designed but it is unclear if it ever made it off the drawing board.{{cite AV media |people=Jonathan Ferguson |date=15 Jun 2022 |title=The silenced, concealable stripped back Welrod, with weapons and firearms expert, Jonathan Ferguson |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y4IIKeHIp8 |access-date=4 August 2022 |time=2:25-2:40 |publisher=Royal Armouries}}

Fictional examples

Though designs vary, most fictional sleeve guns involve a small conventional pistol on a sliding or telescoping rail, which quickly releases the weapon into the hand for firing,Wolfgang Michel: Britische Schalldämpferwaffen 1939–1945: Entwicklung, Technik, Wirkung. {{ISBN|978-3-8370-2149-3}} either by a trigger mechanism, or just the sudden movement of the forearm. Such sleeve guns have appeared in multiple media.

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See also

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External links

  • {{commonscatinline|Welwand sleeve gun}}
  • [https://patents.google.com/patent/US8091264B2/en Firearm with underarm gun stock]
  • [https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110265364A1/en Firearm apparatus to be worn on the user's forearm]
  • [https://patents.google.com/patent/US2977703A/en Forearm gun]
  • [https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160313080A1/en Multi-Barrel Firearm Apparatus Worn on the User's Forearm]

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