"Bigot" was the code name of a very interesting and creative OSS clandestine weapon developed at the end of World War II. It was a conversion of a 1911 pistol to silently fire 6" long step darts.
The actual conversion itself was remarkably simple. It was of a breech plug that fit into the chamber of the pistol and a long rod that would be inserted in the barrel and screwed into the breech plug. The rod contained a long firing pin, so that when the pistol trigger was pulled, it would detonate a cartridge at the end of the rod.
The ammunition for the Bigot consisted of point steel darts with sliding fin assemblies. In the nose of the dart were .25 ACP blank shells, and the center of the dart was hollow, and exactly the right diameter to fit tightly on the rod in the pistol's barrel. To load the weapon, one would simply slide a dart onto the rod all the way into the pistol barrel.
While these guns were actually developed and tested by the OSS, they never went into service. #007shit #ww2 #oss