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Double-barreled break-action pistol. Combines compact dimensions and powerful ammunition. Uses .357 rounds.
~ In-game description

Double-barreled break-action pistol. Combines compact dimensions and powerful ammunition. Uses .357 rounds. In-game description


The Derringer is a double-barreled pocket handgun chambered in .357 rounds. Designed to be compact but powerful, its two barrels chamber one .357 round each, and the gun takes up only 2 inventory slots. The Derringer comes in black, gray and pink, and can have no attachments equipped.

Trivia[ | ]

  • In real life the Derringer is a generic term for any small and easily concealed pistol i.e. 'pocket pistol'. The derringer pistol earned it's fame and infamy as being the weapon of choice for gamblers or other men of ill repute, as a woman's personal protection piece stuck in a stocking, but most famously as the weapon of choice for assassin John Wilkes Boothe, who used a .44 caliber muzzleloading percussion derringer to kill President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre during a play.[1]
  • The term Derringer is actually a common misspelling, the orginal term for deringer only had two r’s. Following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, newspapers frequently misspelled deringer with three r’s.
  • The Derringer was introduced into the game proper in 0.50 update.
  • It most resembles derringers produced by Bond Arms, with it most resembling the Bond Arms Snake Slayer model chambered in .357 Magnum, the same cartridge it uses both in game and real life.

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