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The Lemat has a rather unique design that allows It to fire both types of ammo.Lemat revolverYou see, the shotgun portion of the Lemat shares the exact same mechanism as the revolver portion of the Lemat.This is rather unusual as most underbarrel weapons are often seperate weapons with their own firing mechanism.Underbarrel weapon mounted on an M16 rifleThis results in a design that is unable to fire both weapons as once, since the mechanism permits the firing of one type of ammo at one time only.Hence, there is no way that the Lemat had the capability to fire the 20 gauge shotgun shell immediately after the Lemat has extingushed all the .42 or .36 caliber balls in the revolver portion of the Lemat.20 gauge shotgun shell.42 caliber.36 caliberBut Kagen, how does the Lemat even fire the shotgun shell?Well, voice in my head, the Lemat fires Its shotgun shell by a rather cruel and weird method.And that is by switching the firing pin’s position.Lemat firing pinIn order to fire the shotgun shell, you have to tilt the firing pin downwards, since the shotgun shell is fired below the regular portion of the gun.Lemat firing pin downIn order to switch back to firing the regular portion of the Lemat, all you have to do is push the firing pin up.Lemat firing pin upThis allows you to switch between a shotgun and a revolver almost seamlessly.Would I recommend such a design to be used?Definitely not.But the idea of one gun firing multiple calibers isn’t outdated, as the same idea is now used commonly in some guns.A gun which fires multiple calibersHence, while the original Lemat is now outdated, the idea lives on till today.That’s all folks!

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Not very closely, but quantum mechanics does seem to challenge our notions of logic. Conventional formal logic requires that things be either true or false; there's no in between. Quantum mechanics permits systems that are apparently in two mutually-exclusive states simultaneously until they are observed. Schroedinger's cat thought experiment was an effort to demonstrate that this is ridiculous; a cat is either alive or dead, but it isn't in a superposition of both states simultaneously. So while physicists continue to investigate the behavior of subatomic particles, philosophers consider what this actually means for our understanding of the nature of truth. If formal logic is out the window, then an awful lot of mathematical and scientific reasoning is too. So perhaps we just don't understand quantum mechanics properly? But the math is pretty well nailed; we are able to make accurate predictions with it, which suggests that we are understanding it correctly. So what now?"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." -- Neils Bohr