Lorenzoni Pistol

 

Recently I have been listening to many audio books. I started to listen to the Sackett series by Louis L'Amour, I am on the fourth book in the series; Jubal Sackett. In the book he mentions a Lorenzoni Pistol, never hearing of this firearm before I googled it. It is a seven shot "muzzleloader" flintlock pistol. But its not really a muzzleloader at all. It has a powder magazine and a place to put balls and it "loads" priming the pan and all by moving a lever back and forth. Its hard to explain so here is a video of it.
http://youtu.be/J_hnC6x036Q
The patent date for this gun according to a book I found is March 6, 1664
Its amazing to me simply ahead of its time! I love how Louis L'Amour puts this interesting guns in his books. And in the books he is fighting Indians with it. The Indians would think whoever owned this gun had "powerful magic" because it could be fired so quickly, and the Indians would have never say anything like it at the time it was created because it was a good many years before the revolver came about.
Thought it was just an interesting find!