{"id":8191,"date":"2019-11-14T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/the-mandalorian-carries-an-1894-bergmann-no-1\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:31:00","slug":"the-mandalorian-carries-an-1894-bergmann-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/the-mandalorian-carries-an-1894-bergmann-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mandalorian Carries an 1894 Bergmann No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JvGa2c3rEuE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The new Star Wars TV series &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; does, in fact, feature a sidearm based on the Bergmann No1 \/ 1894 semiauto pistol. These are extremely rare today (probably only 5 or 6 still exist), and I am quite sure the prop was built from scratch and is not an actual original gun. However, the prop designers made a great choice, in my opinion. The very first Bergmann automatics were magnificent looking guns, and they fit right into the Star Wars film universe &#8211; where from the very beginning the weapons have been basically really military arms with sci-fi bits glued on. I plan to do a video later discussing the prop guns from the original three Star Wars films, but this appearance of something as cool as the Bergmann forced my hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For the record, no &#8211; I had nothing to do with the design or choice of the gun.<\/p>\n<p>Full video on the Bergmann: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SGNPqqau-E0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/SGNPqqau-E0<\/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 \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Star Wars TV series &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; does, in fact, feature a sidearm based on the Bergmann No1 \/ 1894 semiauto pistol. These are extremely rare today (probably only 5 or 6 still exist), and I am quite sure the prop was built from scratch and is not an actual original gun. However, the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/the-mandalorian-carries-an-1894-bergmann-no-1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mandalorian Carries an 1894 Bergmann No.1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8192,"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-8191","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\/8191","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=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13300,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions\/13300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}