The 20th century saw a lot of innovation in the realm of pocket pistols. As time wears on, it seems, people have the ability to get a lot more reliable pocket pistols. Still, I’d much rather have a cut-down Colt Navy from the 1840s than a duckfoot pistol from a century prior to that. Of course, black powder and percussion caps were prone to things like falling out of place, getting damp on a rainy day, and so on. By the 1840s, there were cap and ball revolvers that had barrels as short as an inch or two, making them true pocket guns in the modern sense of the word. I certainly would not want to carry one today, but they are, at least conceptually, the precursor to the modern pocket gun.Īs firearms technology advanced, so did pocket pistols. While they were a lot less concealable than modern pocket pistols or, for example, a dagger, a duckfoot pistol was a way for a person to have several shots, fired from a short barrel, that was more or less useful at extremely short ranges.
Some of them had as many as four barrels. Then, there were models of duckfoot pistols that were flintlocks. Something like a pocket pistol has been in civilian hands since the early modern period.
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