{"id":8599,"date":"2016-06-08T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/08\/little-tom-the-worlds-first-dao-automatic\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:30:12","slug":"little-tom-the-worlds-first-dao-automatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/08\/little-tom-the-worlds-first-dao-automatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Tom: the World&#8217;s First DAO Automatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzcHSXzTbqo?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Failed to sell at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Tom pistols designed by Alois Tomi\u0161ka are notable for two particular features: their unusual reloading system and for being the first commercial DAO automatic pistols. Made in both .25ACP and .32 ACP in the 1920s (the .25 versions are much more common than the .32s), these beat out the Walther PP as the first double-action automatics. Unfortunately for Tomi\u0161ka, they would not prove to be nearly as popular as the Walthers, and total production was about 35,000 guns. Alois Tomi\u0161ka would go on to work for the CZ factory, where he would have a hand in development of the CZ22\/24\/27 pistols as well as other projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failed to sell at auction. The Little Tom pistols designed by Alois Tomi\u0161ka are notable for two particular features: their unusual reloading system and for being the first commercial DAO automatic pistols. Made in both .25ACP and .32 ACP in the 1920s (the .25 versions are much more common than the .32s), these beat out&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/08\/little-tom-the-worlds-first-dao-automatic\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Tom: the World&#8217;s First DAO Automatic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8600,"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-8599","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\/8599","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=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15301,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions\/15301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}