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their is now such thing as a "pistol" round, look at the obrez pistol, this was a bolt action pistol that fired the 7.62x54r round, that round is bigger the the 7.62 nato round. yet still it was a pistol. pistols are defined by their handling, and size, not by what caliber round they fire.
anyways, it could be true that it is a modification on the m6 series weapons, but that really doesn't matter, as the weapon as seen, is in fact still a pistol.
also, the weapon is not a break action launcher, as you can see reloading the weapon requires two actions, first, the weapon itself must be recocked,(after firing the first grenade, MC slam down on the weapon again, this is the recocking) then after catching himself, mc pulls a grenade out of his hammer space and attaches it to a rod at the end of the weapon, therefor reloading it. these means the grenade is muzzle fired, which like i said earlier is the same design as the m7 grenade launcher on the m1 garand during ww2.
also, in terms of how one the fly modification of that is very simple, the grenade holding rod would be screwed onto the end of the barrel, and a blank cartridge would be loaded, allowing a loaded grenade to be propelled by the gasses from firing the blank.
and also, have you ever heard of the Taurus Judge or the Mil thunder 5 those shoot shotgun rounds, yet they are pistols.
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Posted by: Atom Alchemist
i am laughing at every idiot here who keeps saying it is not a pistol.
it is not the m6 series pistols that were used in the halo games, but it is still a pistol.
pis-tol
[pis-tl] Show IPA noun, verb, -toled, -tol ing or ( especially British ) -tolled, -tol ling.
noun
1.
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
it is short, it is held and fired with only one hand, it is a pistol.
the basis of the weapon looks to be taken from the m7 grenade launcher attachment from the m1 garand, but instead of being on a rifle, it is on a stand alone system, one which still fires a externally attached grenade, but not with a blank rifle round like the m7, but rather some sort of hydraulic or Pneumatic system, as the pistol still requires a "re-cocking" in addition to reloading a grenade on the end.
I have to disagree. If you had a shotgun the size of a pistol, nobody would call it a "pistol". Pistols fire pistol rounds.
That being said, if you have seen that thread with supposed leaked information about Halo 4, the game could feature an on the fly weapon modifying system. That's what I think the grenade launching pistol is supposed to show and hint at. It may have originally been a pistol, but because of this new gameplay element, has been modified to instead fire 40mm grenades. There's a flaw in that idea, though. If the grenade launcher in the trailer is indeed an example of on-the-fly field modification of weapons, it's really weird to think that a slide-operating pistol that fires pistol-caliber ammunition can be changed to now be a breaking 40mm launcher.
[Edited on 06.08.2011 4:56 PM PDT]