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THE PISTOLA CON CARICATO: 18-SHOT REVOLVER, 3 SHOTS AT A TIME

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The early 20th century saw a lot of experimentation in the firearms department after the adoption of smokeless powder completely redefined the cartridge and the guns that fired them.  In a time when armories raced to develop reliable and dependable automatic weapons one Italian manufacturer held out with a tried-and-true design.  The revolver.  But this revolver isn’t like anything else you’ve probably seen.

Pistola Con Caricato

The Pistola Con Caricato (upwards-loading pistol) is that revolver.  Complete with three barrels and 18 chambers, for all its appeal it is somewhat of a mystery gun.  Chambered in .25 ACP we know it had to have been made during the 20th century, as the cartridge wasn’t developed until 1905.  We also don’t know if it is double-action, although that technology had certainly cemented itself by that time.

Pistola Con Caricato

We do know that the gun had five operating modes.  It has a selector that allows the shooter to fire from the first, second, or third chamber only as well as fire all three chambers at once.  People can go on at length about the .25 ACP and its stopping power, but three at once is nothing to laugh at.  And the selector also acted as a safety, being able to disable all three firing pins.

Pistola Con Caricato clip

Another impressive feature of the Pistola Con Caricato was that it loaded from two-piece moon clips.  Or at least, the Pistola Con Caricato equivalent.  (The first true moon clip was developed for the M1917 revolver in 1917.)  The Pistola Con Caricato sandwiches its rounds between a holding plate and a short segment of cylinder.  The gun must have been a quick loader with 18 rounds that just drop in and it’s top-break design.

Pistola Con Caricato

While .25 ACP is, generally speaking now, a pocket pistol cartridge, this revolver would be hard to tuck away, even with a good holster.  It would have been a fascinating service piece if it had ever taken off.  Clearly, it didn’t.  You can see more photos on the Horst Held Antiques website or the Interesting Firearms section of (we’re not joking) Vince’s Worthwhile Website.

We have to think something similar could be made today, and maybe even in .380 ACP, so long as it managed to not fire more than one bullet per pull of the trigger (the ATF was invented sometime after 1905 as well).  Heizer Arms, what’s your next project?

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The parents of a Pennsylvania 13-year-old accused of shooting and killing his 5-year-old brother in November are now facing charges themselves.

Sara Gerwig and Thomas Wolfe are each charged with endangering the welfare of a child following the death of Connor Wolfe in Penn Hills on Nov. 22, according to a criminal complaint the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office provided Tuesday to Fox News Digital.

“What happened in Penn Hills was an intentional act that resulted in the tragic death of a 5-year-old,” the Attorney’s Office said earlier this month. “The 13-year-old was charged as an adult because Pennsylvania law does not permit a charge of criminal homicide to be filed directly in juvenile court.”

The suspect, who is also facing a charge of possession of a firearm by a minor, told investigators he had shot Connor Wolfe after getting angry at his siblings for jumping on a bed inside their home, WTAE reports.

The teen said he went into his father’s bedroom to get his father’s firearm in order to scare his siblings, the station added. But when the 13-year-old pointed the gun at Wolfe and pulled the trigger, he said he believed the safety was on, according to WTAE.

Wolfe was struck in the head and later died at a local hospital.

The criminal complaint obtained by Fox News Digital states that the teenager told investigators that the gun used in the shooting was “left out in the master bedroom” and that “he knew the handgun was there, because Thomas Wolfe always leaves his handgun out.”

“While interviewing Thomas Wolfe and Sara Gerwig separately, Thomas admitted that he left his handgun on top of his gun safe in their 1st floor master bedroom. Thomas stated that the handgun is always loaded, with a live round in the chamber,” the complaint continued. “Thomas uses the handgun as his every day carry gun, when he leaves the house.”

“Sara stated that she saw the handgun sitting on top of the safe since Saturday November 20th, 2021,” days prior to the shooting, the complaint also said.

Read more of this story on FOX News

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