{"id":3912,"date":"2014-08-28T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/worlds-smallest-pistol-2-7mm-kolibri\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:21:34","slug":"worlds-smallest-pistol-2-7mm-kolibri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/worlds-smallest-pistol-2-7mm-kolibri\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Smallest Pistol &#8211; 2.7mm Kolibri"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/THsDpGJcpk8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s item at the September Rock Island auction is an example of the smallest centerfire pistol ever made &#8211; a 2.7mm Kolibri semiauto. About a thousand of these were made between 1910 and 1914, firing a 3-grain projectile at about 650 fps (for a total of 3 ftlb of muzzle energy). It may be insanely impractical, but it&#8217;s a great piece of mechanical art &#8211; and it comes with 7 rounds of ammo! This pistol failed to sell at auction; it did not meet the (unpublished) reserve price.<\/p>\n<p>Theme music by Dylan Benson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Today&#8217;s item at the September Rock Island auction is an example of the smallest centerfire pistol ever made &#8211; a 2.7mm Kolibri semiauto. About a thousand of these were made between 1910 and 1914, firing a 3-grain projectile at about 650 fps (for a total of 3 ftlb of muzzle&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/worlds-smallest-pistol-2-7mm-kolibri\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World&#8217;s Smallest Pistol &#8211; 2.7mm Kolibri<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3913,"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-3912","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\/3912","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=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15722,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/15722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}