1862 Mousetrap -definitely different

[packman]

[dchill]

1. Decidedly.

I'm thinking this method took out as many trappers as trappees.

[Chainfire]

2. These things were just booby traps. Calling them mouse traps was just cover.

A hair trigger on an easily concealable single shot non-firearm firearm. Because they used black powder instead of modern powder they were not regulated as "firearms." If you watched the video, the poster admitted that mice could run all over it without triggering the device, though larger animals could trigger it.

Back in the 90s a lot of folks were illegally altering some semi-auto weapons to fire automatically by drilling a hole in the receiver and being able to readily insert and remove a device to make the magazine empty with a single pull of the trigger. The called the alteration to the receiver an "oil hole." Of course, it fooled the BATFE for about 15 seconds...

[Sneederbunk]

3. Do you have a photo of an 1862 mouse?