And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Antler mounted wheel-lock hand mortar (grenade launcher) with engraved brass barrel, German, circa 1610-1620.
Should be called a bomb, cause it will kill everyone in front of it and behind it.
ReplyDeleteGet off my lawn!
ReplyDeleteDamn if that isn't a thing of beauty. Can you imagine doing that with tools from that era
ReplyDeleteThat's how people occupied their time back before "technology" distracted them.
DeleteM-79, Mk 1.
ReplyDeleteThose Krauts; always over engineering their weapon systems.
ReplyDeleteMein schwanz ist großer.
ReplyDeleteNot legal in Chicago. Can you imagine how bad things would get if the gangs of criminals there could get their hands on these things?
ReplyDeleteThey don't make flame throwers like they used to!
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