Duck’s Foot Pistol

The term "volley weapon" applied to a Duck’s Foot Pistol. The ability to fire several shots while in use would allow you to possibly hit many targets at once. It sounds extremely wonderful if you don't give it a second thought and don't look at the picture of it. However, the design was incredibly unworkable, making it essentially worthless as a weapon unless you were able to get four people to stand in front of you with their bodies pointing directly in the direction the barrels were aimed.

This is not to suggest that there haven't been situations in which such a weapon would be useless. You could possibly kill four of them if they were clustered together if you were somehow alone facing a rush of foes coming at you from the same direction. When you had one of these absurd guns nearby, what were the chances that something like that would ever occur? Forget about holstering the item in any way.

Country of origin: The United Kingdom