The Ring Pistol

That's quite cool. I'd love that just for the historical value, even though I hate guns.

Oh goodness if I had one of these. "Kiss my ring!"

How much and where can I buy this??

60 bullets if you have one on each finger, add the toes 120. It just needs a chip.

How do I get this?!! The swiss watchmakers made some crazy pistols.

Wow I thought that all that Jim west stuff was made up.

Just remember,...if you recognize this ring on the person of a person of some degree of hostility,...........but your not SURE you recognize them,......go ahead and SHOOT FIRST!
(they might as well be a dead ringer.)

@Dagum------It is close to Christmas,...people have that shopping season spirit! Think of this as part of the "spirit of news",....perhaps "the ghost of news past"!

Perhaps everything can be converted into a pistol...it's certainly one vision of the world. A lipstick pistol would be even better.

"Stories" like this leave me believe that the Current voting system is erroneous or manipulated. How does a story that consists of a picture of a "ring pistol" end up in the top five of the news? Did everyone here really greenlight this story?

is there somewhere where we can read the history of this piece?

wow thats awesome.

Thats cute but there is no story. Not a word about where the gun was found or who made it not even a why it was posted. I hate to do it but I'm going to have to vote this down.

For that special amazon or assassin or sexy lil sociopath in your life; "If you like it, put a ring on it"!

wish they said more about where it came from or who made it.

From a purely aesthetic perspective, that gun is beautiful.

The original article doesn't say anything about what caliber it is. The round pictured beside it looks like a .22 pinfire cartridge (...the protrusion at the base is where it gets the name; at the base is a percussion cap and it goes off when a striker hits the pin), though it could be a .25 or even a .32 depending on the size of the ring itself.

I'm guessing the shooter makes a fist, points it at the intended target, and then pushes/pulls the button on top of the ring to fire. The serrations on the cylinder suggest that it has to be advanced manually after each shot, and the tongue-like protrusion at the bottom protects from the muzzle blast.

An interesting, if impractical, weapon.

THIS is news.

You'd have to like put that in someone's ear to kill them.

It doesn't show what the actual size is. It should have been placed next to a coin or something.

Quite the artifact.

This gives a new meaning to "pointing fingers", aye?!?

jahoosafatz.............