What is it?

[JayHHI6818]

Friend sent these pics and asked if I knew what it is?

 

[acloco]

Pepperbox

 

[PatMiles]

What is it, scary if you're on the wrong end of it!

 

[SSL]

Pepperbox

Yep...probably a Hopkins and Allen.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Looks like a real POS thatll get you hurt if you rely on it to work

 

[rr2030]

It's a decoration

 

[Tommie]

It's a decoration

Indeed

 

[joshb]

Cool old piece! Predecessor to the revolver! I don’t think you’ll find loads for it in any Manual. I wouldn’t even try to shoot it. Might blow up in yer hand.

 

[dedogs]

Looks like a real POS thatll get you hurt if you rely on it to work

Sometimes more than one or ALL of the barrels would go off at once.

 

[OKyote73]

Looks like a sore wrist to me!!

 

[JMayo]

Black powder, revolver from way back or ... A lighter !
Cool item !

 

[mousegunner]

I'm sure someone got to thinking "What if those barrels turned and kept firing as long as you kept feeding it bullets, hmm."

Later someone said "Hey! Let's do something crazy and put it in an airplane!"

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I'm sure someone got to thinking "What if those barrels turned and kept firing as long as you kept feeding it bullets, hmm."

Later someone said "Hey! Let's do something crazy and put it in an airplane!"

Or lets take a huge badass multi barrel machine gun and build a plane around it

 

[Monte F]

A10 comes to mind!

 

[hpshooter]

Or lets take a huge badass multi barrel machine gun and build a plane around it

A10

 

[Bojo]

My guess is your friend bought that last weekend at the gun show in Cleveland, OH.
From the small side room.

 

[Joe Maisto]

A10 comes to mind!

Good one HP...

Brought a smile...Cylinders aren't near long enough to accommodate a 30mm case though. . I got an empty in my garage from an A-10 pilot given to me from an air show in Milwaukee, as I stood on the wing with him back in the late 80's. and what an air show it was, especially when the pilot of the F-15's wheels left the ground, and he stood it on it's tail at a 90 and kept it there until perhaps 5000 '..., flipped 'er over and left !