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ELI5: Why did early pistol and musket designs have such unergonomic looking grips?
gpt
Ergonomics as a science hadn't been invented yet, and guns were mostly handcrafted pieces, so each gunsmith was kind of just doing his own thing.

Ergonomics also isn't all that important when you have a gun with no sights and you're only expected to fire a couple rounds a minute at most.