Original French WWI Model 1916 Suffocante Gas Grenade with Billant Fuse - Inert Vickers MMG TONNANT watching the British barrage

TONNANT watching the British barrage on Baltimore

The side action breech opens well

this could not early be converted to a rifle grenade

Great for the Fourth of July

where it built an elaborate system of coastal defenses throughout 1942

Original French WWI Model 1916 Suffocante Gas Grenade with Billant Fuse - Inert Vickers MMG TONNANT watching the British barrageOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is totally inert BATF compliant genuine World War One French Grenade Suffocante modle 1916 (Suffocating Grenade Model 1916) tear gas grenade. It was dug up some time after the war, cleaned, and painted a lovely black color. It features a M1916 Billant fuze, which replaced the percussion igniter used on the M1914 Gas Grenade. Several kinds of suffocating grenades were already in use in the French police before