A NEW WEAPON.
Proposals, it is said, are being entertained by the French military authorities for a new weapon called the pistol-sabre. It is an ordinary sabre, provided with a small firearm lodged in the hilt. On encountering a resistance surface the blade recedes and discharges the pistol, a recoil of about 1-lQtJi of an inch being all that is necessary. The shot will penetrate a steel breastplate. The new weapon will weigh only a. third more than the ordinary sabre, which, of course, when the pistol is not loaded, can be employed in the usual way.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 3 February 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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97A NEW WEAPON. Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 3 February 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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