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>>10889650
They're a pretty old fashioned design, no manual safety, no transfer bar, but there's notches cut between each chamber where you can rest the pin/blade of the hammer, which basically keeps the thing locked up.

That's a really oldschool thing to do, that's something you'd see on revolvers before self-contained cartridges were really a thing, but it also works. Similar for how there is no trigger guard, instead the trigger is shielded in a 'sheath' like that, ergo it only comes forward if you actually cock the hammer, which again is a really old fashioned concept, but it still works.

>>10889657
.22 Short isn't powerful, especially if you look at it in the old blackpowder days, but those were also days before antibiotics and a very primitive field of medicine, so even if you could stop the bleeding of a nasty puncture wound like that you may get a brutal infection where you risk dying in utter agony.
That worked as a deterrent IRL, but I don't think it'd work in Doom's context because Pinkies aren't afraid of anything.

Gyrojets were reasonably powerful, there's even some limited evidence of them being briefly field tested in Vietnam, but their problem is that they were hyper janky and had abysmal accuracy. They'd be fun as hell to put in Doom because they're so weird, either representing them accurately, and thus as a joke weapon, or as an improved kind which doesn't suck.