24 of the Most Hilariously Unconventional Weapons Ever Created

We love to make fun of the James Bond franchise for its goofy gadgets. Exploding pens and metal JAWS can’t exist in the real world, right? Or think about Batman. That dude once fended off a freaking great white shark with a weapons-grade canister of something the writers decided to name “Shark Repellent Bat-Spray.” Surely weapons created IRL are taken a little more seriously than that.

Nope! Never underestimate humanity’s creativity when it comes to thinking of weird ways to attack and/or defend ourselves. Can you imagine a world in which random civilians all carried personal tear gas canisters under their sleeves? Well, that’s a world inventors in the 1930s imagined when they came up with the idea for the wrist-mounted tear gas gun. More on that and 23 other bizarre weapons from history below…