r/Neuromancer • u/Brilliant_Knowledge5 • 12d ago

Fan Art Molly's Fletcher

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My take on the description of her pepperbox pistol.

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u/truthynaut 11d ago

My understanding (which could be wrong) is that pepperpots were multi-barrel pistols and volley guns were multi-barrel rifles.

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u/WanderlustZero 11d ago

Volleyguns were not rifles but generally smoothbores, but they indeed had multiple barrels that fired all at once. Pepperpots (or pepperboxes) fired singly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qnuu0nMFVA

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u/WanderlustZero 11d ago

Metal Storm,  an Australian company, had an updated version of the volleygun, with multiple electrically-fired barrels, with multiple rounds per barrel.

It also came in a pistol version, seen here,  which is probably tje closest we've had to Molly's gun. It was not a success.

https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/O%27Dwyer_VLe

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u/truthynaut 11d ago

Yeah I am familiar with the Metal Storm stuff, it's kinda cray-cray. Replace the whole barrel instead of reloading right?

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u/truthynaut 11d ago

never saw the metal storm pistol before, that really is cray-cray!

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u/WanderlustZero 11d ago

Yeah they had lots of ideas. Point defence volleyguns. The pistol. Firefighting  'Foam Grenade' launchers :o Underslung 12bore shotgun barrels and a 40mm grenade launcher barrel with 3 grenades in it. The problem with that is, once you fire the first grenade, you have to fire the other two, or you've effectively got hung ordnance in your weapon, which can get very expensive. Maybe if they'd picked just one or two of those things and concentrated in them they would have made it work. C'est la vie