Oversized Guns

Ever since their initial conception, weapons that use gunpowder have come in a variety of shapes and sizes. One of the main aims of firearm design over the years has been to make the weapons smaller and easier to handle. There are some cases, however, when this is put aside and the weapons are made with anything but subtlety in mind. Here are a few examples of oversized guns used throughout history.

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Credit:
Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Robert de Graaf
Narrator: Chris Kane

[jacobball]

kentucky ballistics introduced me to the punt gun

[lukegerard]

When I was in Boot Camp they still used oversized M-16s as punishment. If a private would lose or leave their rifle behind, they would then have to carry one of the oversized rifles around for a few days. They always looked absolutely miserable lugging those monstrosities around everywhere.

[theoneguywhowasatthatoneplace]

0:26 bro isnt even hiding the fact the last guy is the tf2 heavy

[oldschoolman]

0:26 I am Heavy Weapons Guy, and this is my weapon

[_Abjuranax_]

The British had an option to replace the hull machine-gun with the Boys anti-tank rifle on their universal carriers, and also gave the Soviets 1000's of them through lend-lease. And don't forget the Eargishplttenlauderboomer for oversized guns, lol.

[nizalmuhammad]

0:25 "the cost is 400.000 dollars"

[zack]

In France we had some kind of Punt gun too, it was called "La canardière" it was illegal after an accident where a cow had a Bowling sized hole after a missed shot.

[TheMilkman-urip]

As a guy from Northern Ireland, I was curious if you would ever consider doing a video discussing the Troubles in NI, from the 60s to the 90s. Could make a good long video or series. There’s honestly plenty of material for discussion.

[thestrategist]

I love that they had attention to detail, like look at 6:14 when the soldier takes a bullet out of the box on the gun, they didn't have to do that but they did. ❤simple history for doing small stuff like this

[luisemoralesfalcon]

When you are fighting Kaijus, you need big weapons.

[OutlierOnYT]

3:30 people under 5’3” building their goat gun:

[valorwarrior]

This might not be a popular fact, but the Persians also used the Jezail muskets and later Musket rifles during the Russo-Persian wars.

Even though the Persians ultimately lost their possessions in Northern Iraq to the Ottomans, and the Caucasus ranges, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan to Russia in 1722, the Persians did inflict massive casualties on the Russians because of the Jezail "rifled" muskets.

[CleanUp_Inaproppiate]

The custom lego guns i buy from some website:

[Poland]

Sorry if it's rude of me but you kinda forgot to mention the polish anti tank rifle the wz.35

[clear]

I have never been so early to a simplehistory video

[antoniomoreira]

Thank you for this. Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in all round warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. Keep up with the great content

[daivam.]

Imagine in Transformers universe, Bumblebee would use these oversized human guns during WW2, and continued to serve in the Reds in the Chinese Civil War, Reds in Korean War, Reds in Vietnam War, and so on. Bumblebee would also upgrade his arsenals with human technologies; such as M4, MK14, M2 Browning, etc.

[abufauzan]

There's also a wall gun, an extremely oversized gigantic musket either mounted on a wall or carried by 2 men. It's used to repel attacks and could be used as a makeshift punt gun if the enemy are close enough.





"What's this?"
"Its a wall gun"
"Is it supposed to be mounted on a wall or to destroy walls?"
"good question"


Anyway: here's the wall gun firing:

[creepermyeeper]

Punt guns are the perfect concealed carries!

[bsnuzgo]

Bruh really said: time to do the mobile gun game weapon statistics 😅😅😅😅