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| Sorry no link or ref for a picture. I think it was gauntlet mounted and yes was firearm (flintlock or wheel-lock most likely. A friend mensioned it in passing, he'd seen it in a museum in Eastern Europoe. I tried a internet serach for it but curse warhammer 40K for plsma pistol gauntlets!
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It won't be long before real-life firearms are added to this monstrosity.:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7351399.stm
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| From a practical point of view I can see them being a nice one shot or two shot (two arms) weapon, mounted onto a gauntlet and loaded before wearing, or just by someone else. Seems generally unpractical though. Also, having it a larp weapon means you have great hulking sleeves and it looses all advantages it would gain over a normal crossbow, being that it is now about as discreet as stuffing your pants with a breezeblock
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| Not to menton the potential accidents that might occur when visiting the bathroom. I can belive that somone once built a pistol glove... ONCE cant see the crosbow glove (mostly because it would replace a shield or interfere with a sword swing. (Have seen a pistol in a shield though.. ottoman.. at the V&A )museum. http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/conservation/journal/number_39/gunshield/index.html
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Nice gun-shield, Gordon. 
Interesting to note from the article that the investigators are making use of the classic "laminations of Plastazote and fabric glued together" approach to strong shield-building, or in this case, shield-repair!
I saw something similar in one of the museums in Malta.
Of course, sword-guns, knife-guns, spear-guns and even mace-guns were also found, but these were generally high-end hunting weapons rather than intended for use in combat.
There's also a rather later revolver-knife-knuckleduster combo, the Apache:
http://www.hellinahandbasket.net/2007/11/it_is_cool_but_expensive.htm
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Can't find a link but a Glasgow museum has a couple of pistol-swords and pistol-knives (flintlocks I think), and Warwick has the best poachers pistol set I've ever seen (it's a pistol, add stock + barrel, its a musket). Also just found these gun-axe and gun-sword pics from
Prague http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/pics/prague_136.jpg http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/pics/prague_137.jpg and the US http://www.ruble-enterprises.com/PFsword.htm.
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I personally liked the cutlery set and the 'fake' books!
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| So we have managed do discover a gun bible, the gun spear the gun cutlery,, the shieeld/sword spike combo loony weapon.. but no -one has found an arm crossbow. I think thats as close to settling the argument as the internet will ever get On the origonal note.. I have to point out that PD (with very liberal and enlightened weapoms checkers) dont allow arm crossbows. So I shall conclude this debate by pointing out that Godwins law was invented by | | | |