Mars Automatic Pistol Hit Like a Cannon — And Broke the Men Who Tested It

Mars Automatic Pistol Hit Like a Cannon — And Broke the Men Who Tested It In 1902, British officers tested a pistol so powerful that almost every man who fired it refused to fire it again. The Mars Automatic Pistol hit harder than any handgun of its age — but its brutal recoil, strange trigger, and impossible mechanism destroyed the man who built it. 🔫⚙️🔥 0:00 The Pistol No One Wanted to Fire Twice 4:00 Whale Island, 1902 8:00 Hugh Gabbett-Fairfax’s Impossible Dream 12:00 Why Revolvers and Early Automatics Failed Him 16:00 The Long-Recoil Mechanism 20:00 Webley Builds the First Mars Pistols 24:00 The Army Tests a Young Cannon 28:00 Sixteen Planks of Penetration 32:00 Recoil, Broken Parts, and Rejection 36:00 Bankruptcy and the Mars Syndicate 40:00 The Handgun Too Early for Its Century #MarsPistol #BritishWeapons #TerrifyingPistol #HughGabbettFairfax #MilitaryHistory #HandgunHistory #ForgottenWeapons #WarDocumentary Subscribe here:    / @wwiivalor-v2c