{"id":82225,"date":"2023-08-26T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=82225"},"modified":"2023-05-19T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T12:49:29","slug":"oss-bigot-1911-dart-firing-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/08\/26\/oss-bigot-1911-dart-firing-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"OSS &#8220;Bigot&#8221; 1911 dart-firing pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Bgb4SGTgDY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 2 Apr 2012<\/p>\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 &mdash; 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=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXl2bEIyckxuVklMeXZ6V3piM3FQUE1Bdm84d3xBQ3Jtc0ttYU9xQXN2endid1IwdUh1TVlHT3A4MlhzWDA0MkFFTG9uNmRVLVZhZmk4c29LZlpxNGZxWWRqeVJNbG9QU1BFX2htdU9INy0xWlE5YXZEMDg0aW1uSTFPX0doM3Z5MkxmVEt6S3NYNUdCX1Y1aE5ndw&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forgottenweapons.com%2Foss-bigot&#038;v=7Bgb4SGTgDY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/oss-b&#8230;<\/a> \u200e<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 2 Apr 2012 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 &mdash; although we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,13,663,230],"tags":[382,476,1366,49,1266,690],"class_list":["post-82225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-cia","tag-espionage","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-handguns","tag-specialforces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lod","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82226,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225\/revisions\/82226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}