Why don't revolvers revolve the other way?
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A quintessential What is this Weapon, the Turret Pistol is a dead end of firearms design, developed under the misapprehension that conventional revolvers were all doing it wrong. Join Jonathan as he investigates why you would want to revolve on a whole other plane of movement.
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