Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20200125231407/@comment-25110963-20200222030429

If I could, I would show you how a pistol like that can be turned into a sword. But bear with me on this. Slides like that are not designed to come off backwards or slide that far back. The barrel is unique for a Five Seven. It has a takedown lever. If you pull the gun far back enough, it will cause the slide and the barrel to come off if the lever is pulled. Having a hinge on a slide is a design flaw waiting to happen. If you want the blade to properly slide, I recommend adding a modified underbarrel attachment. It has an underside rail so it can be attached. I also recommend a barrel attachment to elongate the barrel to both customize the muzzle and support the blade when deployed. To be honest, it’s easier to have grip fold into the handle and elongate to act as the handle. Don’t know how you want to do it, but the gun is useless in sword mode so it won’t interfere with the firing mechanism. Have it something like a break action so the magazine can slightly slide down and the slide can readjust itself to align with the grip to create a straight handle. The trigger can act as an pivot point and a rail along the barrel to help lock it into place. Imagine a cut off point on the gun grip, push the barrel up, bend it back to break it open, line it up straight, pull back on the barrel to slide it into the rail and lock it into place. Do the reverse to turn it into a gun. It doesn’t have to be manual. Can be done by mechanism as well.