Snub Pistol

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Generic Snub Pistol
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Generic Snub Pistol
Group: Ranged Weapon
Tech Level TL–?
Size ?.0 mm
Weight ?.0 gm
Cost Cr?
Ammo 9mm bullet, x15 rounds
Manufacturer Various
Generic Snub Pistol

The PGMP-14 (190.0 grams loaded; Cr300,000; TL-14) is

Description (Specifications)

"Snub Pistol:" The snub pistol is a low velocity revolver designed for use on shipboard and in a zero-G environment. It fires 10 mm, 7 gram bullets at velocities of 100 to 150 meters per second. No magazine is used, six individual cartridges being inserted into the revolver separately. Reloading takes one combat round, two combat rounds if the firer is evading. Standard rounds include a tranquilizer round, gas round, high explosive round, and a high explosive shaped charge round to defeat personal armor. The snub pistol is a standard shipboard security weapon generally loaded with five tranquilizers and one gas round. More expensive pure combat versions of the snub pistol are available, generally in the automatic pistol configuration with extended magazines holding up to twenty rounds.

Length: 100 mm. Weight, unloaded: 250 grams (weight of six cartridges, regardless of type, is 30 grams). Base price for revolver: CR 150 (six cartridges, regardless of type, cost CR 10). Combat version costs CR 150. Loaded 20 round magazines weigh 125 grams and cost CR 40. Tech level 8.

Weapon Characteristics

Length: ?mm. Weight, unloaded: ? grams. Base price: Cr?. [1]

History & Background (Dossier)

TBD [2]

Selected Snub Pistol Models

  1. TL-5 Snub Pistol

References & Contributors (Sources)

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  1. Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 38.
  2. Information provided to the library by Maksim-Smelchak