"Little All Right" sounds like a fallout unique weapon

Honestly, this gun looks surprisingly modern aesthetically for something made nearly 150 years ago.

if the trigger is in front of the cylinder, does that mean its a bullpup revolver?

I imagine the cylinder gap problem would be irrevelant. This to me would be a last ditch defense weapon. In which if you don't solve your problem with the first round or two, a burned hand would be the last of your worries.

Hilarious! My wife now yells out, "you're watching Ian again" every time she hears, "hey guys..." Rofl!

there needs to be one of these chambered in S&W.500

"That is gun sure is little." "Oh, it's little alright!"

I hear Matthew Mcconaughey owns three of these little beauties. He talks about them all the time!

is it technically a bullpup due to the action taking place behind the trigger?

At 6:46, I saw Thomas the Tank Engine, the Cyber Men, the Borg, a Goblin Shark, and a Ring Wraith combined. The front of that little pistol is spooky.

This gun looks like something someone with a bowler hat, moustache and a pocketwatch would drop from their sleeve in a though situation.

I lived in Lawrence Massachusetts when I was little. Because of all the mills and all the parts that they would use, machine shops were everywhere.

"In testing, the Little All Right produced a one inch group at a range of...one inch"

What a awkward little thing. Still, it's a neat design despite the flaws. Yet, somehow during WWII we still managed to produced even sillier and less effective pocket/spy guns.

what about a "big all wrong"

The two guys were looking at it on the table and one of them goes, "Yup, it's little all right." They immediately look at each other with surprised expressions and say, "Ope, that's it."

Little alright is a perfect name for a palm pistol, Suicide special revolvers also had great names like terror, defender, swamp angel , Protector & many more.

It sure is Little, All Right. I'm sorry.

Please continue your KZfaq videos. I get A LOT of historical details from your shows and appreciate the straight history. Thank you!

Looks like that cylinder gap would burn you when you fired it. Definitely a last ditch weapon.

My seven year old son and I enjoy your channel Ian. Keep up the good work.

Nice little revolver! Seems to be a watchmaker's work.

"I realize you can't see anything from back there".....story of my life man

I said this before on the sunglasses gun. I love the engineering that goes into tiny concealed weapons. Keep em coming!

"I used to use this little gun when I was a prostitute"

I shall call it...The High Five

It's like the zip gun and the NAA mini had a baby.

i like to call it: "the slightly more lethal hand buzzer"

That looks surprisingly modern for a 19th century gun.

Remarkable little pocket protector.

wow, that thing sold for $3700! crazy!

Hey Ian, have you ever thought about bringing some snapcaps so that you could dryfire and more fully show the loading and unloading of these guns?

Interesting design. it certainly has its issues, and a NAA mini revolver in 22WMR is more compact and a good deal more powerful. Back then i think i would have stuck with the Remington derringer in 41 rimfire. Lot of interesting ideas in palm and hideout pistols back then. Great video as always. Thank you

Please tell me I'm not the only one who repeats Ian's introduction along with him, word for word

I imagine the user of this particular handgun would be wearing gloves while firing, so their hands wouldn't get all kinds of janked up.

Precious is the word that comes to mind. Love it when you do one that I never knew existed.

Thank you for all the work that you do in creating and presenting these videos, I really enjoy them. It is a true priviledge to be given them to watch and all the knowledge that you share.

When I first saw this video on my recommended list I initially misread the title as "Little Alt Right".

Thanks for all of these videos.

Another issue I see with this little guy: you have a rotating cylinder that you inevitably will touch and grab with your hand. If the grip is too tight you'll have a hard time rotating it when you pull the trigger - not that good if you seriously have to use this gun at almost point-blank range in a self-defense situation. Neat little design, however. Probaly would have been better with the frame of a Reform pistol or rightout as a common semi-automatic.

Ian, have you considered adding a box of snap caps to your regular filming equipment? You could have a small box that hold one snap cap each of various calibers and that would allow you to safely dry fire more weapons. Thanks for the great content.

lots of jokes about how under powered this is, but it would actually be pretty viable. .22 short is weak, but not harmless. much better than those little 2mm cap guns marketed as "pocket pistols" in those times, you're better off just throwing those "guns" at your attacker and hoping you hit them in the eye. at least with this, you can actually manage to kill or injure them lol

"SAY HELLO TO MAH LIDDL FREN'"

Love watching ya Ian. You and Johnathan from royal armories make being a firearms enthusiast feel less psychotic than the rest I've tried to watch... Your enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge is awe inspiring. But I'm still gonna laugh at the fact that in less than a minute of saying you didn't want to dry fire, you remove the cylinder and almost immediately dry fire😁

Simply put the best gun channel on KZfaq period.

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for tiny guns, and have owned several, however none quite as small as that, my smallest was the NAA mini revolver in .22 Short. I also had the High Standard .22 Magnum and of course, a .32 Davis Derringer. My first Derringer was one of those little .38 Special junk guns, after a few rounds I decided that my hand loads were needed, so I went with a reversed hollow based wad-cutter and just a few grains of bulls-eye to make it go down the barrel. Not something I would carry if I my life depended on it. For that, I used to have a Star PD, but sold it years ago, now to take it's place I picked up a Citadel M1911A1 in the General Officers cut, very compact but the damn thing makes my pants fall down if I carry her in my pocket and don't wear suspenders.

This really feels like it should have a shroud covering the whole left side. Would stop burnt palms / misfires from squeezing it too hard and stopping the cylinder from spinning

Matthew McConaughey approved.

Ian, I know this is off topic, but the thumbnail on the flag discussion video made me laugh for like 10 minutes straight! You handled that situation very professionally. Love the videos!

That looks like something I'd expect to be made in the 1920s or '30s, not the 1870s...

The second I saw it I thought "Looks cool, but that would definitely have a pretty bad cylinder spray since there's no real grip." Glad he went over this in the video.

Found this gun in a “pistols of the world” book from the 70’s. Should have known you would have a video!

"**Not clickbait** zip 22 but it's a REVOLVER" should have been the title

I can't believe they didn't take advantage of trending abbreviations of the time and name it the O.W. gun, if they thought it was oll wright

This duo single handedly got the victory royal with these pistols.

Considering that being gut shot in those days was most likely a death sentence, it was probably an effective deterrent.

Alright someone needs to buy one of these and bore it for 30.06 and get it belt fed

The cylinder gap is scary. I tested out my .38 special with paper on the side where the gap is. It shreads the paper. But that isn't the same powerful ammo this takes.

I have a NAA Pug .22 magnum in my pocket right now and I love these little revolvers but this seems problematic in functionality but the internals seem elegant and well designed

"A couple grains of black powder"... Sound's about as dangerous as one of those mini bottlerockets with the same charge.

Wonder if the guy who designed the Zip .22 saw this and wondered if he could make a modern, more uncomfortable, more dangerous version of it.

to be fair, uncomfortable and awkward is a pretty good trade off for 'saving your life'

Note how all the adverts down the right side of KZfaq are now all about 'hands'...! "How to do palm reading", Making pizza dough by hand", "Hand pain, everything you need to know". heheh

would absolutely buy an updated version of this in 22LR and take it over the more commonly available 'looks like a baby revolver' that's currently on the market or even a derringer. sight picture is obviously right out but it probably points very naturally and usefully for the ranges it would be used at

Gun is so small, i almost tried to full screen my full screen...

Greatest weapon ever

Very cool looking, and I can see why it failed too. Not nearly as ergonomic as other palm pistols I have seen. I can imagine several different things I would do to modify this.

I suspect that the pressure of one's fingers/palm could impede the rotation of the cylinder, causing malfunctions.

That long trigger pull seems like a decent safety idea. Somewhat excessive perhaps, but I don't think that there is a way this would be discharged accidently

reminds me if the tiny pistols from django unchained, the ones that they flipped out from their sleeves

the little NAA pistols are single action but are a lot less hassle .... and are tiny too.... especialy the 22 short one

we need to bring gunsmithing back in America, the Philippines produce millions of gun every year from backyard workshops

neat lil dangerous piece

The peak before you pull style.

this gun period was so cool

This is like a primative version of my North American Arms 22lr, which is so tiny I have a folding handle that makes it look like a pocket knife.

It's so tiny, and adorable, i love it, i want one. Do more guns like this exist? If so I need all of them.

Beautiful weapon, my good man.

Can still get the NAA mini revolvers in short and long.22 that are about this size. Great little guns. If you get the folding handle, theyre actually fairly accurate at 5 to 7 yards

Wow, that's a real oddity, the designer must have thought otherwise.

This thing looks like the grandfather of the Zip-22.

I would've redesigned the grip so you would've effectively fired it upside-down.

Revolver designed for gamblers who were cheating in a poker game as I suspect. I think, I was their "professional equipment".

The mythbusters test on cylinder gaps comes to mind rather painfully.

Love it! Thank you GunGuru Ian!

This revolver looks a lot more modern than the 19th century, to me. To me it looks like something Cobray, Ruger, S&W, or Colt would make for a budget gun.

I'm just imagining somebody shooting a hole through their own middle finger with this thing if they gripped it wrongly.

Reminds me quite a lot of the derringer pistol. Not in mechanics or otherwise, just the look of the gun.

the moment you had to grab onto the cylinder of the gun I had a feeling that was what went wrong.

I had one of those little tiny pistols, but I accidentally swallowed it in a handful of raisins. It took me three days to get it back!

this gun design and name looks like something out of borderlands

Another amazing discovery

From what do you suppose the grip panels were made? They look like zytel.

It's basically a Bullpup North American Arms revolver.

I didn't know Ian was making cursed gun reviews.

The shape and trigger seem very similar to the USFA zip gun

If this was at higher calibers, it would seem like an interesting gun for the mafia. a small gun the size of a cigarette box, looks like you're holding a stone of sorts, and can fire it during an uppercut or fist fight. Truly a strange weapon, but amazing inspiration for cyberpunk content

A gun that's guaranteed to burn or slice your hand when you fire it seems like a pretty bad idea, just because you'd probably end up flinching or being unwilling to fire the gun when you needed to, or you'd be too shocked by having your hand get bit that trying to get a follow up shot would be difficult. Seems like the ideal gun for someone who was... less smart, but more paranoid about assassins. Or an assassin who would be ready with gloves and able to sneak up and shoot all five rounds as quickly as possible.

I would like to have seen it fire! If I had it I think I would make a handgrip to fit on top of it and fire it upside down.

I like your new tumbnail format