I don't know why but I like it.

I am Czech and I remember that my grandpa used to have this pistol as an heirloom. I thought it was a toy...

Given that this was meant for concealment, if you put it in your pocket you would be caching a small Czech.

Your work created an archive of timeless information pieces. In 10 years they will be as informative and viewable as they are today. Remarkable.

Why do people talk like a .25 would bounce off their skill due to their extreme manliness...

I'd like to see a modernized iteration of this design. It's really a pretty neat concept and looks to be nicely engineered.

I'm so proud of you Ian, that you spelled "Václav" correctly. That is so rare for a native English speaker. Well done! True professional, I also love that you're learning French

This little gem held my attention more than some other firearms from the auction. Just a neat design.

That's gotta be one of the best designed pocket pistols that I've ever seen. It's not shaped like a pistol so it won't print like one, and is truly designed for one handed use unlike other "one handed" designs that seem cludged together. Shame that it wasn't commercially successful, but I'd blame that on lack of marketing or pocket pistols falling out of favor more than I'd blame the design itself.

How has this not been in a Bond movie? I can already hear Desmond Llewelyn telling a quipping Sean Connery to “grow up, 007.”

Good to know Google thinks early 20th century firearm education and teaching me with song and flashy colors what a firetruck is are relatable.

Well, it's not a 9mm, but it has more reach than a knife and most people still wouldn't want to get shot with one of those. So it can't be *that* bad, if you know what I mean. :)

God bless you Ian for doing all of this. My life hasn't allowed me to explore firearms as much as I'd like, but this is the next best thing!

This is by far the top two best gun channels. I like Hickok then forgotten weapons then sootch. There’s a lot of good ones but for some reason this one is easy listening. I can listen/watch this at 5am when I wake up. Some of the others I can’t handle that early. My grandfather would love this if he were still alive. I’m sure he used/shot/had a lot of these guns.

Watching all these auction house videos, I've come to the realization that I'm GLAD of Canada's firearms restrictions, and the hassle of trying to buy guns across the border...because I'd have no money if it was easier...

I feel like this pistol would be popular with veterans of world war 1 who only had one hand

Ian. You do a great job. You explain the mechanics wonderfully. .25 Auto is not underpowered. It’s just a .25 cal. Similar to a 22 LR but center fire. A lot of people have been dissuaded from doing harm with 5 .22 LR or 25 cal in the chest. Also many people have been murdered with these calibers. Thanks.

What an interesting little pistol/gun. I would love to own one. Thanks for the exposure to these unique firearms!

Am I the only one who sees a vintage locomotive in the slide?

Really useful for people who only have one hand/arm. That was probably who bought it anyway. I bet a whole bunch of people today would buy something like this for the same reason.

Needs a modern version of this pistol.

This has to be one of the coolest things I've seen on here so far. it was neato

The S&W model 61 “Escort “ is also a one-handed pistol. The recoil spring assembly sits above the barrel and this makes it easy and safe to cock with the index finger. Despite what some think, with a little work, they are extremely reliable. Mine shoots all types of ammo and never jams. Very few one-handed pistols exist.

That dinky little things actually really cool.

very cool little gun. it really is neat how some features work on the unusual firearms.

A superior selection of when to end the video I must say 🔥🔥🔥

I can't tell you how happy I am to have stumbled across your channel last night. I love learning about firearms, and up until last night I thought that I had seen the majority of whats out there... I subscribed immediately after watching the first video I found, which was the video you did on the little pistol with the horse shoe magazine.

This is the first gun that you have shown that I have never heard of. Quite an accomplishment.

"That's really tiny." Kolibri: am I a joke to you?

Truly informative on historic firearms of all types. Thanks.

A ONE HANDED PISTOL? Impossible technological achievement.

When the gun tipped over at the beginning, I laughed more than I should have.

I love these little oddities! There’s something almost gentleman-like about it, almost like I can simultaneously sip tea and dispatch my troubles lol

Thanks for showing us this one. If ever there was a pistol that could be called cute it is this. The twentieth-century's replacement for the derringer.

What a curious little pistol. Thanks for sharing!

Wow...gives whole new meaning to the term "light rack".

I think that is a fine little pocket pistol. If there was a .32 version I would carry it.

...thats a neat piece.....Ian, yesterday The Great War plugged you guys... good advertising on there...

It seems like a perfectly acceptable little pocket gun for that era. You don't have to blow a giant hole through an attacker, you just have to make them go away, and it's more than capable of doing that.

This is super freakin cool. Once again some cool Czech Engineering.

What a fantastic design! I would like to see a modern iteration of this. :)

In your educated opinion, how safe would you say is to shoot the little Praga 1921 with modern 25 ACP ammo?

"How am I going to catch the Bad Guys with that peashooter!?" -McGonagle

Thanks ian, for mentoning that barrell length on an autoloader includes the chamber, so subtract at least an inch to get the actual length. so if you have a 3.1 barrell 9mm ypu have about a 2 inch bbl.

Thanks Ian!.. I Really Kinda Liked This Gun!.. Sometimes The Odd Ones Are My Favorite!.

I don't know why, but I love the word "zbrojovka". Every time I see it on a Czech gun I get a little giddy.

This is obscenely cool.

thats a surprisingly good design

For about the first minute it's one "big" "that's what she said" joke...Sweet gun review... Keep up the good work sir

elegant simplicity

It looks like a piece of abstract art.

what really neat design!

Time to revisit this concept

These pocket guns are always cool! Thanks for sharing.

What a pretty little pistol.

Thanks for doing this Ian. I plan on one day buying a surplus M1891/30, but have never owned a gun. I live in Canada so that may have something to do with it. Anyways, I'm fascinated by how firearms work, and I love the way you break it down. Please keep going, I'll do the patreon thing as soon as I get a CC.

Neat little thing. Wonder if it could be scaled up to a .32 or even .380 if you used the pull and push style of feeding?

That was really neat! I love some of the obscure guns that you profile on here! Keep up the good work!

very cool. I wish we had innovation like this today.

A tiny video for a tiny gun. Cool. I like the gun.

LUV this design!

what an interesting and cool design, probably very fashionable back in the day... i can see this being a villian's gun in a mobster movie

The folding trigger would be a great idea for people that choose to carry without a round chambered

This is a really nice looking firearm in my opinion.i would love to own one of those.

Pocket and vest pistols are on my mind a lot lately . perhaps because its the only class of firearm missing from my collection

I love those kind of tiny guns I want one of those 4 my collection

If there was a modern production of this weapon I would buy it, super neat

For what it's meant to be, it seems fine, great even. I sometimes wonder how many things fail for no other reason than that they are ugly.

THUMBS UP FOR ALL THE WROK IAN DOES!

Very cool I wish it made a comeback

God DAMN it I keep seeing really neat things on this channel and I don't have enough resources to get them all. I do have some though!!

Ingenious design! Somebody must take this design and manufacture maybe a .32 version and correct all possible faults this one had.

Read rocket pistol, got intrigued, got disappointed, then got intrigued again. Thumbs up!

A modern variant of these would be fantastic. Checker stacked 22 Magnum would make it totally viable.

I want to own this weapon. I love the one handed operation.

I'd buy that! It's fantastically clever

You get bonus points for pronouncing Václav right, Ian.

That is a pretty innovative design... interesting if nothing else. I dont know how practical but imagine if you were a amputee or something.

Really neat pistol!

Looks like a great lil gun

This is really cool. Interesting ergonomics and the one hand operation(Think modern guys using their rear sights to cock a SA pistol) is reminiscent of pistol modifications done today.

The Devil Shoots Praga? Soooo late to the party, YT suggested it now, 4 years after release

I actually think this is a better design than Browning's original (FN 1905/06 and Colt 1908 Vest), because Browning's design had really tiny manual safety that were hard to manipulate. The Baby Browning (FN 1931) solved the safety issue, but this Praga still have longer grip to give you better control, since the trigger is positioned way forward from the grip :)

I NEED IT (I have right side hemipledgia so it is hard to use a regular pistol, if only they still made these by special order) :(

OOooo!!! It looks like a baby gun (so cute)! Czech Zbrojovka is/was the manufacturer, which still produces guns, much better guns, if I may add. This piece would be a backup for a backup (tertiary pistol). For such a small caliber .25ACP surprised me when I was shooting it with some other gun. It made a hole through an apple tree (about 6-inch diameter) with every shot. Angry little thing...

Excellent find - never seen the like - was wishing you did a take down segment on it.

Another fun little piece I'd buy a modern replica of.

I've watched a few Forgotten Weapons reviews of European made pocket pistols over the last week or so, obviously I get one in my feed, watch & like, and more follow. The last one was a quirky little French model made around the turn of the century, and before that a Belgian made tiny mag fed pistol from around 1920, looked a little like a Kolibri. Anyway the point is that in the late 19th and early 20th century there appear to have been a fair few small manufacturers producing these in Europe, and therefore there obviously was a market. I have the impression from these vids and other sources too that smaller firearms for civilian use were no big deal back then whereas in modern day Europe they are virtually unheard of. Presumably there were no complex licensing and registration procedures involved in those days. Furthermore gun crime in those days wasn't really prevalent, I mean I haven't heard of school shootings 100 years ago. I wonder when this would have changed? I am guessing that it would have been during and just after WW2, in the German-occupied countries possession of a firearm would have been prohibited and a scary thing if it meant that the Gestapo could consider you to be a member of a resistance organisation. It's a real shame that things have changed to such an extent that nowadays our governments don't see their citizens as responsible enough to own and carry small firearms for self-defence.

It looks like a great little gun, I have a little revolver which wouldn’t take up any more space but might be a hair wider with five Ron capacity of 22 Magnum in that thing is surprisingly easy to shoot, accurate and 22 Magnum is no slouch it’s going 1900 ft./s out of a rifle, I think the modern day version of this should be a double stack 10 or 12 round capacity and that would definitely do the trick in 22 mag

Great little boot gun

That cut out in the slide remainds me a lot of the different Praga, V3S

I really want one. Also, 25acp is very lethal at defense range. Seen it in person.

I came in with no knowledge of this gun's existence and left with the knowledge that "this thing is really tiny"

Pretty ingenius little pistol!

I would love to see this made today it is a good design

I love the logo.

I wouldn’t mind having one or two of those.

Discreet pocket firearms are so interesting. This one is not quite on the level of the sunglasses case gun, but still really cool.

If I was 21 and had a pistol permit, I would own that. I like mini pistols that go pew pew.

What a neat little concept!