Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Scheintod Revolver: A German Tear Gas Pepperbox" video.

  1. This weapons had been popular in Germany, because you could carry it without a licence from the 1900s to the mid 2000s. Nowadays you need a licence, but this so called ,Kleiner Waffenschein' is rather possible to get, while the traditional , Waffenschein' ( ccw permit?) for carry a real gun is nearly impossible to get.
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  2. You need nowadays a licence to carry the modern versions of such guns. And for this reason, there is no more crime in Germany ????
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  3.  @kohinarec6580  : Klein means small in english. So you are right, this is in this case a lmited/ reduced licence. The mayor differences are: With a ,kleiner Waffenschein' you can carry only a blankgun ( with german authorities ,PTB' stamp, but this is currently changing for European Union reason) to fire rather weak blanks , ,gascartridges' with CS, pepper cartridges, in some blanks, the gunpowder is mixed with chemicals for either more smoke or a stringer flash of fire. With an ordinary Waffenschein you can carry real pistols for selfdefence . Second difference: A ,kleiner Waffenschein' is easy to get, you usually get it , when you had never been involved in crime or extremism ( Zuverlässigkeit/ relyability). For a real/ full Waffenschein, the authorities proof more carefully, if you have problems with alcohol, drugs, mental problems, and more carefull if you are involved in crime or extremism. ( Zuverlässigkeit), also you have to show, that you have knowledge about weapons, ammunition, safety rules, law etc.. ( Sachkunde) and the most difficult thing is, to show the authorities, that you habe the need ( Bedürfnis) for a pistol. So today i think, most oft owners of a Waffenschein' are security guards.
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  4. zachery valerio : It was a revolver for 5 or 7 mm pinfire cartridges.
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  5. David Hanny : In the 90s a german or swiss arms magazine showe this cartridges, they had been shotgun cartridges filled with pepper powder but no shot.
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  6. robert colbourne : In those days french was, in western world, the ,lingua franca'/ international language, it needed some time to replace french with english language. And the , Friedensklasse' of the , Pour le merite', the ,Pour le merite für Wissenschaft und Künste' (for science and art) is the last prussian medal, which is , very rarely today, still sometimes awarded, as far as i know!
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  7. Tom unterwegs : In a german or swiss arms magazine of the 90s the authors of this article thougt, that in some cartridges there was only white pepper powder, but they thought, that some cartridges had an addition of Magnesium powder for a stronger flash of lightning or an addition of narcotic medicine. But they said, the remaining cartridges of those days are too old for good chemical analysis.
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  8. In the 90's a german or swiss arms magazin wrote about this weapons. There had been single to three barrell pistols and the shown revolvers. The cartidges had been 36gauge/.410 shotgun cartridges with blackpowder, no shots but pepper powder. The persons from the arms magazin think that in some cartidges narcotic medicine or Magnesium powder (for a bigger flash of lighning) was added to the pepper powder. Those weapons had not only been used for self defence, with blank cartridges they had been used as , Weinbergpistole'/ wineyard pistols to scare animals, especially swarms of birds, when thry wanted to eat the wineberris before the harvest. For this use you could buy cheap muzzle loading pistols up to the 30's. There had been ,Weinbergschütze'-wineyard protectors some decades ago. The oldest known cataloques which show ,Scheintodpistolen' seem to be from 1909. The reason for the invention of this pistols? Up to the 2000's you needed no licence to carry such a teargas pistol ( this ones of modern production). Arround 1890 most of the german policemen had only sabers but more and more criminals used firearms. So there came a licence for civilians who wanted to carry a firearm called (still now) , Waffenschein' and up to 1913 all regular german policemen had been armed with firearms.
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  9. maax musterus : In the 90s a german or swiss arms magazine showed the cartridges. This had been 36 gauge/.410 shotgun cartridges, where the shot was replaced with pepper powder.
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  10. Tiny J : In todays Germany a CS cartridge or spray is only allowed to contain max. 80mg of CS. I am not familiar to ,imperial' , but i think that is 1/3 grain.
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