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2006-01-18 Bangladesh

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Posted by Steve White 2006-01-18 00:02|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 *smile* As comforting as a familiar bedtime story, indeed.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-18 06:17|| 2006-01-18 06:17|| Front Page Top

#2 That story must have been told at least an hundred times here in Rb, but I still haven't the slightest idea of what a shutter gun might be.
Did I miss the memo or something, or does this fact remains one of the great unexplained mysteries?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-01-18 12:15|| 2006-01-18 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe only one shutter gun was ever built.
And the RAB owns it.

Posted by tu3031 2006-01-18 12:40|| 2006-01-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 As near as we can tell, there's only one shutter gun in all the world, and the RAB keeps it safe in the evidence locker until it's time to take it out and ~~plant~~ find it on the corpse of the dread criminal...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-01-18 12:42|| 2006-01-18 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Same here, A5089. I can imagine several sorts of weapons from the name, but no solid clue as to which it might be. Regards the memo, well, I guess we're not on the distribution list. *sniff* ;-)

Posted by .com 2006-01-18 12:46|| 2006-01-18 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, that explains why I can't quite find out what a shutter gun _is_.

"Come with us, Nazrul, we wanna have a chat with you."

Nazrul? You mean he's one of The Nine?

Posted by Phil 2006-01-18 12:47|| 2006-01-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#7 ... aided as always by Mr. Pliers and Detective Vise-grips ...
Nazrul "nine fingers" Islam won't be missed.

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-01-18 13:34|| 2006-01-18 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 When all this nonsense about a "Shutter Gun" first surfaced I made a thorough web search.

I found that a "Shutter Gun" is aparently a paintball gun.

Makes sense, you could fire other small spheres with it that are not paint filled, a lead ball at paintgun velocities would be a really severe hit, but not as bad as a real bullet

Or maybe a "Paintball" filled with acid or poison.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-18 13:47|| 2006-01-18 13:47|| Front Page Top

#9 RAB stories can only go so far. I need nuggets.

Posted by 6 2006-01-18 18:02|| 2006-01-18 18:02|| Front Page Top

#10 I came across a reference that seemed to say a shutter gun has an exchangeable chamber that allows firing of types and calibre of ammunition. Otherwise they seem to be manufactured in several countries. Why they should be so 'popular' in Banga, I have no idea.

Another RB thread on the topic

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-01-18 18:43|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-18 18:43|| Front Page Top

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