The gun: Davis Industries D-32
My mother has had this gun for years now - she actually used to carry for protection if you can imagine that. Today I borrowed it and took it to the range.
To start with, this thing is tiny. It fits snugly in the palm of my hand. It's so small that it doesn't even look like a real gun, but nonetheless it holds two .32 auto cartridges and it will fire them, so a gun it is.
I only fired 6 rounds through it today, because honestly it seems a little cheaply made and I was half worried that it would blow up in my hand. But I guess when you've just been caught cheating at poker on a riverboat, you have to take your chances with gun concealed in your vest pocket.
It's got a bit of a kick when you fire it, and I assume that's because it's so light weight. There's just no mass to resist the force. And it's not accurate at all. Below you can see my "group" (for lack of a better word) of six shots. I was aiming at the center of the large white circle, and all the shots went high and to the left. This was shot at 3 yards.
One thing that surprised me about it was that it only shot one bullet at a time. I had expected both to go off simultaneously, but it has some mechanism that guarantees that it fires the top barrel first, and the bottom barrel on the subsequent shot.
All in all, it's a curious little gun, more of a conversation piece than a real gun, but neat to play with.
Shooting Mommy's Gun: two shot Derringer
1106+ recreational uses of firearms
1 defensive use
0 people injured
0 people killed
1 defensive use
0 people injured
0 people killed