{"id":6922,"date":"2019-08-30T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/30\/prisons-and-pirate-mutinies-the-ducks-foot-pistol\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:35:16","slug":"prisons-and-pirate-mutinies-the-ducks-foot-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/30\/prisons-and-pirate-mutinies-the-ducks-foot-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisons and Pirate Mutinies: the Duck&#8217;s Foot Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vDvyLuSeJyk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>RIA on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction<\/a><br \/>\nRIA on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duck\u2019s foot pistols are one of the iconic classic \u201cweird gun\u201d categories. The one exemplifies the typical pattern, with four barrels arranged in a wedge, fired simultaneously with a single flintlock action. Traditionally, these are attributed to people like prison wardens and ships\u2019 captains, who might have to confront mobs of prisoners or a mutinous crew. Whether this is actually supported by historical fact or is just apocryphal communal belief, I do not know\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\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>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIA on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RockIslandAuction RIA on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/ Duck\u2019s foot pistols are one of the iconic classic \u201cweird gun\u201d categories. The one exemplifies the typical pattern, with four barrels arranged in a wedge, fired simultaneously with a single flintlock action. Traditionally, these are attributed to people like prison wardens and ships\u2019 captains, who might have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/30\/prisons-and-pirate-mutinies-the-ducks-foot-pistol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prisons and Pirate Mutinies: the Duck&#8217;s Foot Pistol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6923,"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-6922","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\/6922","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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13457,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/13457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}