Can't say that I had heard of this one, but there were several guns with
"periscope" like sighting systems. Some going back to the first world war.

And several modern designs that put a camera on the gun and a wearable
monitor.

-Denny


Btw, a link to an 11MB video file without other info was probably not the
best way to share this.


>

> The idea of a gun shooting around corners isn't anything new. In WWII
> the US had a Sub-Machine Gun called the M3 "Grease Gun". There was a
> barrel attachment that was curved at a right angle. The inside of the
> angle was open, like a half barrel. The Germans had a similar attachment
> for there MG-42 machinegun.
>
> I read an article about those sort of attachments in Small Arms Review.
> The pictures of the slugs that came from the barrel attachments were all
> mangled, so it isn't very accurate but they still would "do the job".
>
> Charles K Roberts II

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