Guns for the Pope's Police: Mazzocchi Pinfire Revolver
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The revolver we are looking at today is a 9mm pinfire revolver adopted for the Papal Gendarmerie in 1868. At that time, the Papal States controlled roughly the same amount of territory as Switzerland today, and had its own armed forced for internal security - the Papal Gendarmerie. The Papal States had previously adopted a 12mm Lefaucheux revolver for its army, but this was deemed too bulky for the Gendarmes. So in 1867, they went looking for a smaller new pistol. The Mazzocchi brothers in Rome had been official armorers to the Vatican for three generations (their shop was actually located in Castel St Angelo until 1850!), and they won the contract for the Gendarmerie with this revolver model. A total of 2500 were made in 1868 and 1869, at 50 Papal Lira each.
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Looks like a lego revolver
Officially referred to as the Pope's Police, but everybody just calls it the Po-Po
Pietro, Giuseppe and Luigi has to be the most Italian trio of names possible.
The holy Handgun is clearly a better choice against a Rabbit.
For when the exorcism needs a lil bit more oomf than holy water
The cylinder rotating counter-clockwise makes sense. Most loading gate revolvers open on the right, to be loaded with the dominant hand while held in the off hand; this one opens on the left, to be loaded with the off hand like modern swing cylinder revolvers. Rotating counter-clockwise means you won't have a live round under the hammer until you load your sixth shot, and in a pinfire gun that's extremely important because the firing pin on each cartridge is exposed and prone to going off when struck. It's an incredibly simple, but effective, safety mechanism to prevent some dork from accidentally firing his gun while reloading.
This is exactly what I envision a holy weapon would look like. Upon looking at it you know it's gonna deal some holy damage.
Just when you thought Ian had plugged the depths of forgotten weapons... He comes back with this little gem.
"Papacy went looking for a Pistol" is definitely the title of a underground rock song.
Mario is going to be pissed when he finds out his brother Luigi is running a side hustle business in the arms industry. lol
Bastards got a hold of my technical sketches from when I was 4
"The Pope? Bah. How many divisions has he got?"
I'm amazed after all these years of Ian showing and explaining guns I've never seen before, that he still finds more forgotten guns.
Not gonna lie, I always love when Ian breaks out something from the Papal States or Swiss Guard.
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Imagine how pimped out they would be if the Pope was armed and always carried personal, Pope-ified pair of revolvers.
I always enjoy seeing the late 1800s designs, as so much needed to be done without small, fine springs. This revolver has a delightfully elegant design.
I love when forgotten weapons makes videos about these smaller german and italian pre unification states. Tnks for the simple yet awesome presentation.
Seeing the hammer I suddenly wondered if there ever was a revolver that had a hammer built into the frame to strike from below.
Castel Sant'Angelo was originally Hadrian's tomb.