I have a world IMTU named Gehenna that is a particularly mean and nastiverse in itself that provides the players who want that sort of thing with a cyberpunk paradise, and those who don’t a place to dread and avoid if possible. One of the fun items I have come up with to add to the place; and players have been buying them and tossing a few in the gloveboxes of their air/rafts ever since is the polymer One-Shot™.
When there was all that goofy invisible gun nonsense following the arrival of the Glock onto the market I had this idea: what about a plastic gun that could be entirely self-contained – ammo and everything – and just blister-packed for the store pegs and comes in different colors? Like an emergency gun you could put in your backpack, glovebox, or tacklebox (for those difficult fish that won’t respect the fish bat)?
So here it is:
The Polymer ONE-SHOT™ TL-8
A different kind of body pistol, the One-Shot (2 shots actually) is a polymer framed handgun 15cm long and weighing 200grams. The twin barrels are both polymer with thin steel liners and rotate along a central post to bring one barrel at a time in line with the striker. The sealed barrels each contain one 9mm round that does not eject when fired. Both rounds are semi-jacketed hollow point.
The trigger is locked in place by a thin plastic tab which the user breaks during the first trigger pull. The round is fired and then the user rotates the second barrel into place manually. The second barrel locks into place to prevent misalignment by use of a simple pin that pops into a hole in the frame. The rounds are actually part of the barrel sleeve itself, so the thing can't be reused. They are caseless rounds molded into and sealed in the barrel at the factory and fired by the impact of the striker pin on the embedded primer.
Because the barrels are sealed the shelf life is effectively unlimited, though the manufacturer only guarantees the effectiveness of the rounds for one year after purchase. The guns are completely recyclable and when you return it to the store can get a 20% discount on the next one purchased.
The One-Shot™ comes in many colors and has also been marketed in special limited edition collecting lines, such as sport teams, celebrity and fashion designer styling’s.
For weapon stats, other than the differences in length, weight, and number of shots per round (it still only has two rounds available) the One-Shot is treated as a body pistol. I use the original 3D6-8 for body pistols IMTU but give the One-Shot a damage of 3D6-4 instead for having bullets with a little more punch.
Price is only 250Cr. at any major sporting goods store, or in the sporting goods section of major department stores.
When there was all that goofy invisible gun nonsense following the arrival of the Glock onto the market I had this idea: what about a plastic gun that could be entirely self-contained – ammo and everything – and just blister-packed for the store pegs and comes in different colors? Like an emergency gun you could put in your backpack, glovebox, or tacklebox (for those difficult fish that won’t respect the fish bat)?
So here it is:
The Polymer ONE-SHOT™ TL-8
A different kind of body pistol, the One-Shot (2 shots actually) is a polymer framed handgun 15cm long and weighing 200grams. The twin barrels are both polymer with thin steel liners and rotate along a central post to bring one barrel at a time in line with the striker. The sealed barrels each contain one 9mm round that does not eject when fired. Both rounds are semi-jacketed hollow point.
The trigger is locked in place by a thin plastic tab which the user breaks during the first trigger pull. The round is fired and then the user rotates the second barrel into place manually. The second barrel locks into place to prevent misalignment by use of a simple pin that pops into a hole in the frame. The rounds are actually part of the barrel sleeve itself, so the thing can't be reused. They are caseless rounds molded into and sealed in the barrel at the factory and fired by the impact of the striker pin on the embedded primer.
Because the barrels are sealed the shelf life is effectively unlimited, though the manufacturer only guarantees the effectiveness of the rounds for one year after purchase. The guns are completely recyclable and when you return it to the store can get a 20% discount on the next one purchased.
The One-Shot™ comes in many colors and has also been marketed in special limited edition collecting lines, such as sport teams, celebrity and fashion designer styling’s.
For weapon stats, other than the differences in length, weight, and number of shots per round (it still only has two rounds available) the One-Shot is treated as a body pistol. I use the original 3D6-8 for body pistols IMTU but give the One-Shot a damage of 3D6-4 instead for having bullets with a little more punch.
Price is only 250Cr. at any major sporting goods store, or in the sporting goods section of major department stores.
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