{"id":11599,"date":"2015-04-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/17\/very-early-mars-pistol-4\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:17:15","slug":"very-early-mars-pistol-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/17\/very-early-mars-pistol-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Early Mars Pistol #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PFerkFl3Yt4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $46,000.<\/p>\n<p>Until the midle of the 20th century, the most powerful automatic pistol made was Sir Hugh Gabbett-Fairfax&#8217;s Mars pistol. With the .45 caliber version approaching the energy of a .45 Winchester Magnum, it was quite the accomplishment for a gun designed initially in 1898! Well, RIA has a very early example of the Mars &#8211; serial number 4 &#8211; coming up for sale. This gun (chambered for the .360 Mars cartridge) has a number of features that differ from the more &#8220;typical&#8221; Mars pistols (all 80 or so that were ultimately made). These include a very long barrel, a tangent-style rear sight, and a 3-lug bolt instead of the standard 4-lug type. A very cool pistol to have a look at!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $46,000. Until the midle of the 20th century, the most powerful automatic pistol made was Sir Hugh Gabbett-Fairfax&#8217;s Mars pistol. With the .45 caliber version approaching the energy of a .45 Winchester Magnum, it was quite the accomplishment for a gun designed initially in 1898! Well, RIA has a very early example of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/17\/very-early-mars-pistol-4\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Very Early Mars Pistol #4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15596,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions\/15596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}