Odd Gun: Semmerling LM4

Being a .45 Guy and with an itch to scratch for a pocketable carry gun in that caliber, I first heard of the Semmerling LM4, it was made first in the 1980s and had limited production up until sometime around the 21st century. Still the gun LOOKS like a semi-auto, but is a manual-operated gun. I’d read a TON of descriptions on HOW the gun works, but never SEEN how it works. Until JUST now. Thought I’d share:

Pretty cool, but also crazy awkward if you ask me. The gun is a hair smaller, with one round less in standard capacity as my PM45 Eleanor, and about the same weight as its all steel. Further while the PM45 shoots like a pistol twice its size, this thing shoots like a crazy rube-Goldberg machine, and that Slide-lock/Safety seen in Video 2 seems overly complicated and unsafe, given that you need to depress the trigger with a live round in the chamber to engage it.

Still this thing was invented 20 years before the PM45 and all its perfection. Of course a gun of this size and weight, even in the 1980s I think I’d make better use of the many all-steel .380s, or of course the omni-present S&W J-Frame revolver which will fire the same number of .38 Special rounds at a much faster rate.

So I thought I’d share.