dwarven1
Lonely Mountain Arms
If you think that "tactical" flashlights - a flashlight mounted on a long arm - are a modern invention, think again. The following is excerpted from a story I just read: The Fifth-Dimension Tube, by Murray Leinster, published in the January 1933 edition of Astounding Stories.
You can tell that it was written before NFA 1934, too... a civilian owns a "sub-machine gun".
Anyway, I thought it was interesting that the idea of a flashlight secured to a firearm was written about some 77 years ago.Heck, for all I know Tom Swift had one on his Electric Rifle, too - which was written some 15-20 years before the story I quote above! I may have to re-read it to find out...
I wonder when the first production firearm-mounted flashlight was manufactured.
Tommy inspected his surroundings with an infinite care. As the darkness deepened he meditatively taped a flashlight below the barrel of the sub-machine gun. Turned on, it would cast a pitiless light upon his target, and the sights would be silhouetted against the thing to be killed.
You can tell that it was written before NFA 1934, too... a civilian owns a "sub-machine gun".
Anyway, I thought it was interesting that the idea of a flashlight secured to a firearm was written about some 77 years ago.Heck, for all I know Tom Swift had one on his Electric Rifle, too - which was written some 15-20 years before the story I quote above! I may have to re-read it to find out...
I wonder when the first production firearm-mounted flashlight was manufactured.