Sniper Revolver

Now I dont profess to be well up on Firearms, infact my knowledge is limited and my usage revolves aroung british Army Standard weapons but I dont think this is of much use to any body least of all a self respecting sniper, and the attachment to the barrel is probably a silencer of some type.

If Anybody can think of a good application for this weapon please do tell ?

Another Image of the weapon


and thread in Militaryphotos.net here

The base is a Ruger revolver. Silencers are pretty much a waste of time on a revolver due to the barrel/cylinder gap. A lot of gas & noise escapes there.

Back in the early 1990s C. Reed Knight Jr.’s Knight’s Armament Co (KAC) of Vero Beach, California responded to a shadowy call from a government agency as yet unnamed to produce a small and short ranged but devastating suppressed rifle. Their answer was a unique weapon based upon a Ruger Super Red Hawk.
The story goes that KAC built the gun on spec to provide a weapon capable of making effective anti-personnel shots at ranges of up to 100-yards, while being capable of a rapid follow-up shot. The rub was that it could not eject shell casings (so there would be nothing left behind by the user to pick up before leaving the area presumably). This ruled out semi-autos, bolt, pump, and lever actions. In fact, it left the revolver as the answer.
https://laststandonzombieisland.com/tag/knights-armarment-silenced-revolver-rifle/

I agree with you guys though, completely impractical in real life