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The trigger is a bar parallel to and extending past the barrel. After being loaded and cocked, the weapon is fired by the shooter making a fist and pressing the trigger against the target's body. Between 52 and 200 are believed to have been manufactured.
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high-command. Two Sedgley OSS weapons are utilized near the film's climax, including one loaded, concealed, and used by a character played by the actor
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firearm. It was designed by Stanley M. Haight and manufactured by Sedgley Co. of Philadelphia for the
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Illustration of the Haight Fist Gun in its US Patent document
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pistol which was designed by Stanley M. Haight for the
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dropping behind German lines to conduct a political
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Cartridge
.38 Special
Action
World War II
U.S. Marines
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break-action
smoothbore
.38 Special
Office of Naval Intelligence
Pacific Theater
Quentin Tarantino
World War II
Inglourious Basterds
First Special Service Force
OSS
assassination
Nazi
Eli Roth
Apache revolver
Protector Palm Pistol
Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms quarterly bulletin, Volumes 979-980
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Eger, Chris. "The Sedgley OSS Glove Gun"
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