You know those cowboy movies where the gambler kept a derringer on the end of an extendable contraption attached to his wrist? Those are COOL, right? I think the latest movies I've seen with an example are Jeff Goldblum's in Silverado and in Kevin Kline's in Wild Wild West.
The Beard wants 2. So he can dual wield.
Like this, but with a small pistol:
Ok, he isn't exactly serious about it. But it is an intriguing CCW option. Intriguing, I said. I'm not too sure about the wisdom of that rig.
Regardless, I can't seem to find a commercial version available today. I magine law enforcement frowns upon them and the LAW may well, too.
I'd figure they'd still exist as a costume or cosplay prop for folk, if not with actual firearms. Any sightings out there? Googling 'wrist holster' variations or 'sleeve holster' variations, with or without the word derringer, gives me bupkis.
And how bout this... If unwise to have a gun on your wrist, what about a wrist attached, spring-loaded, spare magazine holder for your reload? Huh? THAT'D be something.
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Massive 4 rule violation potential.
Can you imagine eating while wearing them?
Wrist knives is the way to go...
But the spare mag, THAT wouldn't violate a 4-Rule...
Because I want my emergency reload to involve as many springs, buttons, and levers as possible. Can we maybe get a servo and a battery in there too, somehow? ;)
...and deploy directly into the empty mag bay.
NOW you're both talkin!
Steampunkish AND CCW, in one place. What could go wrong.
They're called holdouts, T-Bolt. The ones used at card cheating can be found here. A quick Google check didn't reveal any gun holdouts รก la Wild Wild West, but that was a TV series/movie, anyway, and not reality. Jeff Goldblum in Silverado didn't have a mechanism for his Deringer, he simply had it up his sleeve.
I think they did the magazine thing in the movie Equilibrium (dual reloads from the sleeves), but like most of gunkata its all about looking cool, not operating within the laws of physics/safety.
I really must rent Equillibrium
I'd go for a stovepipe hat with a mechanical arm that comes out the top and hands me mags when I need to reload...
While you're at it rent the "real" Wild Wild West,(Robert Conrad and Ross Martin) especially the first three seasons....
However, magic shops may have a similar gizmo that will light and shoot little balls of flashpaper. Taxi!
"Googling 'wrist holster' variations or 'sleeve holster' variations, with or without the word derringer, gives me bupkis."
There was something along the lines of what you're looking for in the Schwartzenegger movie "Red Heat". One of the shooting magazines, maybe Guns, did an article covering the guns of the film contemporary to the movie release, including the rig and the shop that made it.
I'm surprised that nothing came up for sleeve holster. If nothing else, I've seen a number of references/photos/drawings of a derringer holster design that is essentially a wide wristband with a leather-covered spring clip that wraps around the barrels to hold the piece. Most references mention S.D. Meyers as the originator, but there are at least a couple of holstermakers that have made copies in recent years.
Also recall mention in one of the refences, maybe Eugene Cunningham's "Triggernometry" (BTW, that book includes a sketch of the above mentioned holster) of at least one old west character simply using an elastic band tied to a derringer on the one end and above the elbow on the other, adjusted for length to dangle the gun just inside the cuff. "Shooting one's cuffs" motion supposedly resulted in the gun's intertia carrying it out far enough to reach.
Safety issues mentioned earlier in the thread obviously apply...
ThoreMo
You can always make your own like Robert De Niro did in Taxi Driver.
Hey, the explorer chick had that cool multi-magazine drop-load system! It was tacticool and all!
Hey, in addition to springs, buttons, levers, servos and batteries, can't we include Windows, too? You could do a lot with a Window's interface.
And some extra straps, too, which was the Word Verification word.
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