This is a single-shot, muzzle-loading flintlock pistol. Reloading it takes a long time, but the user may not have much time. That's why the makers of this late Eighteenth/early Ninteenth Century Ottoman Albanian pistol built a club into the handle. Fire your shot, reverse the gun, then start swinging.
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Perhaps the handle is more durable because it has fewer parts.
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So, hitting someone with the super lightweight slim-line wooden handle was going to do a better job than smacking someone with the end with an *iron* pipe on it?
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