{"id":5176,"date":"2012-04-02T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/oss-bigot-1911-dart-firing-pistol\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:37:27","slug":"oss-bigot-1911-dart-firing-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/oss-bigot-1911-dart-firing-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"OSS &#8220;Bigot&#8221; 1911 dart-firing pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Bgb4SGTgDY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;Bigot&#8221; was a modification of an M1911 .45 caliber pistol developed by the Office of Strategic Services during WW2. The OSS was a clandestine operations service, the predecessor of the CIA. The Bigot was intended as a way for commandos to quietly eliminate sentries &#8211; although we are not sure what advantage it might have had over a silenced pistol. Questionable utility doesn&#8217;t prevent it from being a pretty interesting piece of equipment, though, and we had the opportunity to take a look at one up close recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/oss-bigot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/oss-bigot<\/a> \u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Bigot&#8221; was a modification of an M1911 .45 caliber pistol developed by the Office of Strategic Services during WW2. The OSS was a clandestine operations service, the predecessor of the CIA. The Bigot was intended as a way for commandos to quietly eliminate sentries &#8211; although we are not sure what advantage it might&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/02\/oss-bigot-1911-dart-firing-pistol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OSS &#8220;Bigot&#8221; 1911 dart-firing pistol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5177,"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-5176","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\/5176","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=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16011,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/16011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}