{"id":5236,"date":"2014-11-09T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/09\/chicago-palm-protector-pistols\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:20:54","slug":"chicago-palm-protector-pistols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/09\/chicago-palm-protector-pistols\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Palm Protector Pistols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zv4ekzpWdFk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for:<br \/>\n$2,185 (Paris)<br \/>\n$1,265 (Minneapolis)<br \/>\n$2,588 (Chicago)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Protector&#8221; was a very discreet palm pistol developed in the late 1800s by a French inventor, produced in bulk by the Ames Sword Company, and sold by the Chicago Firearms Company. They are mechanically double-action turret revolvers with a unique grip design meant to be to be fired by squeezing. The first few were made in France by the original inventor, and later licensed to an Irish-American who sold them through first the Minneapolis Firearms Company and later the Chicago Firearms Company. Most are in an extra-short .32 caliber rimfire cartridge, but a few were also made in both .41 and .22 calibers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/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>Sold for: $2,185 (Paris) $1,265 (Minneapolis) $2,588 (Chicago) &#8220;The Protector&#8221; was a very discreet palm pistol developed in the late 1800s by a French inventor, produced in bulk by the Ames Sword Company, and sold by the Chicago Firearms Company. They are mechanically double-action turret revolvers with a unique grip design meant to be to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/09\/chicago-palm-protector-pistols\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago Palm Protector Pistols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5237,"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-5236","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\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15684,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/15684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}