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The germans tried the curved gun with an attachment called Krummlauf during ww2. It would break after just a couple of magazines being fired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummlauf

Not sure how you would build one of those without the stress of the bullet during firing would not damage the barrel.

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I'm amazed that worked for even one shot. Presumably gp was referring to cornershot or something similar, which seems like a much more reasonable approach.

Yeah, every gun person on youtube capable of getting one has demonstrated it. Unsurprisingly, you cannot aim for shit on these things, and their intended use can be fully replaced by a hand-mirror with a much better rifle (aka, most rifles), without fucking up your barrel trying to curve bullets.

I meant a 90° angled gun. You pull at one end, but all firing happens at the other, out of a straight barrel. Idea being that you can then collapse it to a flat rifle.

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