Side Note: dual barreled pistols?

[The Yosemite Bear]

Just watched the Cameleon Marathon yestarday, looked at a debate about blade runner, and was looking over some Marshal Law comic books.

Now is it just me but wouldn't a dual barreled, automatic pistol be a tad too complicated, and hard to shoot?

[Warspite]

Just watched the Cameleon Marathon yestarday, looked at a debate about blade runner, and was looking over some Marshal Law comic books.

Now is it just me but wouldn't a dual barreled, automatic pistol be a tad too complicated, and hard to shoot?

Absolutely! If it's being fed from one magazine, the firing mechanism must switch between barrels, and that's an excelent place for failures. Besides, wouldn't there be a slight angular momentum from the firing, shitting the aim on a speed fire?

Double barreled shotguns (either side-by-side or over-under) are still single action, and they have two triggers, much more simple.

[Sea Skimmer]

It took the Russian a decade to get there twin barreled auto cannons to work, and those had hundreds of pounds of weight and strong mountings. Doing it with a handgun would be near impossible, and quite pointless.

[kojikun]

They used to have small pistols with numerous barrels and one trigger, but they were such that you had to reload each barrel individually after it was fired.

However, those may actually have been ones where you rotated the barrel to the next. ::

[weemadando]

Metal Storm pistols have 2 or more barrels standard. But then, their firing system makes this an excellent option.

Hell, the O'Dwyer series (for law enforcement) have 4 barrels, 2 with lethal round stacks and 2 with non-lethal stacks.

[Lord Pounder]

In the Jedi Accademy trilogy Skynex or what every ya call him, had a double barrelled blaster pistol.