# Interesting little historical "How Stuff Works" firearms quiz - 30 questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310 "2017-06-18T18:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310/41 "2017-06-22T14:59:55Z")
27/30 and I quibble on one of the ‘wrong’ answers: [spoiler]The survey claims the answer about duelling pistols was wrong, but in fact, there were two correct answers. Duelling psitols were common in both flintlock and percussion cap models. Got the H&K VP70 wrong. Got the reason for Squeaky Fromm’s failure wrong.[/spoiler] So I’m calling it 27/29. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310/42 "2017-06-22T15:04:34Z")
> [@Marci\_Al](#): > > With the Davy Crockett likely to its users, the Army might as well develop a nuclear hand grenade. DAmn near what it was, really - Variable yield in the mosts updated form from 10 tons equavalent, to 250 tons equvalent. Pocket change, really, when you’re talking about nukes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310/43 "2017-06-22T16:32:32Z")
24/30 – if this hoplophobe did that well, it wasn’t really a test of technical knowledge. I also am disappointed that the answer to the Squeaky Fromme question wasn’t “it didn’t go off!” ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310/44 "2017-06-22T17:39:46Z")
I had a VP70 back in the day as they say. Not a very good pistol. Big and clunky with a horrid trigger pull. The HiPoint of the 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310/45 "2017-06-22T18:00:28Z")
27/30 But then I got distracted by doing the muscle car quiz, the engine quiz, the firearm safety quiz… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310/46 "2017-06-22T18:35:24Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > I had a VP70 back in the day as they say. Not a very good pistol. Big and clunky with a horrid trigger pull. The HiPoint of the 70’s. It’s a gin-u-wine Heckler und Koch. Correction: a Hi Point but 3x the price 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-little-historical-how-stuff-works-firearms-quiz-30-questions/789310.md?page=2)