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The Cameleon was a concept revolver designed by Czechoslovakian ice rink technician Karel Michalek. Michalek had wanted to make his own handgun, but was limited by government restrictions. In 1989, Michalek decided to construct a concept gun out of wood and epoxy resin.
Look it's possible this guy was a massive nazi, but I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they're not nazis.
To me it seems far more likely it's related to .44 magnum with it being a magnum and all than the SS.
People write digits in all sots of different ways:
You both have a point and I'm not saying that the guy had any Nazi sympathies, but come on.
If you look at all the other lettering it becomes more believable that they just have an odd writing style
I mean its a cool design. It looks like something you would get late game in Duke Nukem 3D where it only holds 6 shots, but 6 is all you need.
But the etching of those 44's sure seems like someone is trying to write SS while having people defend it sayin nah its 44.
Edit: Bruh I don't see any SS marks on that table of numbers you provided. The marks on that gun are very very identical. More symmetrical than any other lettering on the barrel. Almost like they used a stamp or something for just those to marks in particular.
Here's a quote from the reddit thread about it
So yeah, some people write fours like that. No need to create some weird Nazi conspiracy theory around this guy
I think / hope he was going for an idea like this for a simplified 4.
It's just similar enough to the way that I write 4 (which looks more like a y) that I don't really jump to that connection, but I can see how people who write the triangley fours might be sussed out by it.
Also D3D was a fucking great!
Edit: The 4th ... 4? Just draw that a bit straighter and it's the same thing.
Just draw that a bit straighter and bring in the angles and make it a bit more acute rotate about 45 degrees..
wait a second ...