Cheese! Police!
No, that's not a 9mm handgun you're
looking at, but a 16mm still-image camera.
The Japanese-based Doryu Camera Company
made the Doryu 2-16 from 1954 to 1956,
according to Camerapedia. The Doryu 2-16
was apparently a police-issue device in
Japan, and to make it seem even more like a
gun, you'd load the camera with magnesium
bullet cartridges and then just point, aim,
and fire. The magnesium cartridge wouldn't
discharge out the "nozzle," but come out
the top and act as a flash for the camera; it
would also make a large bang in the process.
Very cool design, but something tells me you
wouldn't want to be snapping pics near any
national monuments with this thing.
