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At the end of XIX - early XX century small firearm for self-defense guns were very popular among the wealthy segments of the population and the middle class in Europe. Among the large variety of miniature pistols that time should be allocated a gun "Hummingbird" design Franz Pfannlya. The total length of firearms is only 7 mm and its weight without cartridges equals 220 grams. It is this unique weapon of self-defense, which is one of the smallest pistol in the world, will be discussed below.

This tiny weapon was created on the basis of 4, 5-millimeter handgun "Eric" and is available in two versions: a cartridge 2, 7 mm and 3 mm. Small-scale production pistol "caliber" of began in 1913 and continued until 1920, when it was replaced by a larger version of caliber.

The gun had a shop for 5 rounds, and the initial velocity of the bullet is 150 m / s. All were released about 1000 pistols "Hummingbird", which is now used by interest from collectors weapons. At the auction value of this particular weapon comes to 4 thousand dollars.