Welrod
The Welrod was a suppressed bolt-action pistol developed by the British during WWII.
This sidearm was designed by Major Hugh Reeves at the Inter-Services Research Bureau(Sation IX) and was intended to be a specialist assasination tool. The British intended to give this gun out to resistance organizations and “irregular” forces to stop Nazi occupation. The name, Welrod, was derived from where it was made, Welwyn Garden City, and gangland slang for gun, rod.
This pistol’s strange look is intentional, once the magazine has been removed from magazine well it would appear to be a pipe or a bicycle pump and no Nazi officer would think twice after seeing one among someone’s personal effects.
The suppressor the gun came with is something that you can actually call a silencer. The firearm is extremely quiet and this is a direct result of its design. The suppressor is not like traditional suppressors, it has rubber wipes inside of it that can be replaced once they have been used too many times. These rubber wipes are no more than disks until the gun is first fired and holes are created with the bullet.
These pistols saw limited use in WWII but it wasn’t discontinued after the war, it saw action in other major conflicts and there are even reports of some variation of this pistol making an appearance in Operation Desert Storm.
