Tiny pistol

[Chris M]

I was just thinking back to when I was a kid, my dad had this tiny single-shot pistol that was attached to a tie clip. The pistol had to have been around 1.25" total length. The rounds that it fired had some sort of pin that the hammer strikes that was part of the primer, and the bullets were about as big as the ball in a ball point pen. The rounds were probably somewhere around 3/16"-1/4" in length.

Just wondering if anyone on here might have more information as to what it may have been.

And yes, it was functional. I remember him firing it into a dictionary, and the bullet went through several hundred pages.

[AJAX22]

what you are describing is a 2mm pinfire pistol

also called a burlesque gun

they can be found for 50-200$ and are just about leathel to a mouse or large insect at contact distances.

they actually make revolvers and fun attachemnts for them that let them shoot flares and noismakers too.

xanthos makes the most common revolver.

the tie pins are very common, although most that you'll find today are blank cartridges only.