this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
56 points (100.0% liked)

HistoryPhotos

512 readers
150 users here now

HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

Rules

  1. Be respectful and inclusive.
  2. No harassment, hate speech, or trolling.
  3. Foster a continuous learning environment.
  4. No genocide or atrocity denialism.

Related Communities:

!militaryporn@lemmy.world

!forgottenweapons@lemmy.world

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
Deceptichum@quokk.au
sga@piefed.social
PugJesus@piefed.social
56
Two men posing with a 'Punt Gun', a kind of shotgun for hunting waterfowl in large quantities, 1923 (media.piefed.social)
submitted 5 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Scene: Burglar comes up the stairs at the end of the hallway are these two gentlemen.

"You burgled the wrong house sir"

[โ€“] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.